Gassco said it has taken over as operator of the Knarr pipeline, which will transport rich gas to the Shell-Esso Gas and Liquids (Segal) system and St Fergus in Scotland.
Knarr is a gas and oil field located about 100 kilometres north of Statfjord in the northern North Sea.
Svein Birger Thaule, executive vice president for asset management at Gassco , said, “The next milestone now is to complete emptying water from the pipeline and start filling it with gas. Start-up is expected during the spring.”
Gassco became operator of the Knarr Gas Pipeline Joint Venture on 1 March, which owns the 12-inch pipeline, and also has technical responsibility for its operation, the company said in a statement.
Tied into the existing Far North Liquids and Associated Gas System (Flags), the new 106-kilometre rich gas pipeline has a technical capacity of 1.7 million standard cubic metres per day.
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