Nexans has been awarded an €8 million contract by Statoil to supply the static umbilicals for the Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen gas project in the Norwegian North Sea.
It will be the fourth Statoil project in quick succession to feature the new standardized fast-track umbilical design developed by Nexans and follows the contracts awarded in 2012 for the Oseberg Delta field (North Sea), the Snøhvit gas field (Barents Sea) and the Smørbukk Sør (Norwegian Sea).
The Nexans facility in Halden, Norway, will manufacture a total of 9km of static umbilicals to be deployed in water depths of about 137m to provide the subsea tie-back between the Rutil and Opal gas discoveries and the existing Gullfaks A platform.
Statoil’s new standardized umbilical design integrates hydraulic, data and fibre optic services.
The main Gullfaks field lies in the northern part of the Norwegian North Sea. It has been developed with three large concrete production platforms: Gullfaks A platform began production in 1986, with Gullfaks B following in 1988 and the Gullfaks C platform in 1989. Produced oil is loaded directly into shuttle tankers on the field, while associated gas is piped to the Kårstø gas treatment plant north of Stavanger and then on to continental Europe.