Getting to work offshore Norway: StatoilHydro shuts six fields for repairs.
StatoilHydro shuts 6 fields for repairs
Norwegian state-run StatoilHydro shut six oil and gas fields offshore Norway today for planned repairs along with its Sture oil terminal.
The closure, which was planned for some time, affects the Oseberg, Grane, Huldra, Veslefrikk, Draugen, Heimdal fields.
StatoilHydro declined to say when the facilities were expected to restart following their turnaround repairs, according to a Reuters report.
Sture is part of the Oseberg transport centre and receives oil and condensate from Oseberg, Veslefrikk, Brage, Oseberg Soer, Oseberg Oest, Tune, Huldra and Grane fields.
The terminal began operating in December 1988.
It is able to berth oil tankers up to 300,000 tonnes and has five rock caverns for storing crude oil with a combined capacity of 1 million cubic metres and a 60,000 cubic metre cavern for LPG storage.
Sture also includes a fractionation plant which processes "unstabilised crude from Oseberg into stabilised oil and an LPG blend", according to the NPD.
The LPG blend can either be exported by ship or sent through the Vestprosess pipeline linking Norwegian refineries in Kollsnes, Stura and Mongstad.