Statoil: Technical service provider for Langeled

Gassled has decided to assign the technical service provider (TSP) tasks for the Langeled pipeline system to Statoil from and including 1 September 2006.

Statoil will then become responsible for the daily operations of the 1,200-kilometre Langeled, the world’s longest subsea pipeline.

Langeled, the new “highway” for gas between Norway and the UK, is expected to supply the UK with one-fifth of its gas demand by the end of 2007.