Statoil has awarded Framo Engineering a contact for the design and construction of the Gullfaks subsea gas compression plant. Gullfaks may become one of the first installations worldwide to employ subsea gas compression.

”Subsea gas compression represents an important leap forward in the efforts to improve recovery and extend the producing life of several gas fields. Having implemented this technology, we are also one step closer to our ambition of moving processing facilities down on the seabed. In other words, a subsea factory,” says Siri Espedal Kindem, Statoil’s senior vice president for technology.

As a field gets older, the natural reservoir pressure decreases, and the well may need boosting in the form of compression in order to produce more gas and bring the gas up to the platform.

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