Haltenpipe is a gas transport system which consists of a long pipeline from the

Heidrun field upOil from the Heidrun field. The Heidrun oil field is an oil and gas field discovered in 1985 in the Norwegian sector of the Norwegian Sea, named after the goat Heiðrún from Norse mythology. The field lies north of Kristiansund. It has pro ...

to Tjeldbergodden. It started operation in December 1996, and is operated by

Gassco Gassco is a Norwegian state owned company that operates of natural gas pipes and associated riser platforms and land-based facilities transporting annually of 100 billion cubic meter (bcm) of natural gas from the Norwegian continental shelf ...

. Transport capacity is 2.2. billion cubic metres per year.

History

The Haltenpipe PAD () was approved by the

Norwegian Parliament The Storting ( ; ) is the supreme legislature of Norway, established in 1814 by the Constitution of Norway. It is located in Oslo. The unicameral parliament has 169 members and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional represe ...

in February 1992. The construction of the pipeline started in 1994, and was finished in November 1996. The Haltenpipe Joint Venture was established in June 1995. The operatorship of Haltenpipe has been transferred from

Statoil Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger, Norway. It is primarily a petroleum company operating in 36 countries with additional investments in renewable energy. In th ...

. The licence will expire at end of 2020. The current licensees are

Petoro Petoro is a company that is wholly owned by the Government of Norway. Established in 2001, it manages the Government's portfolio—collectively called State's Direct Financial Interest (SDFI)—of exploration and production licenses for ...

, Statoil,

ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips Company is an American multinational corporation engaged in hydrocarbon exploration and production. It is based in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas. The company has operations in 15 countries and has production in t ...

and

Eni Eni is an Italian oil and gas corporation. Eni or ENI may refer to: Businesses and organisations * Escuela Nacional de Inteligencia, the Argentine intelligence academy * Groupe des écoles nationales d’ingénieurs (Groupe ENI), a French engi ...

Gas delivery

Natural gas from the Heidrun field is delivered in part through the Åsgard Transport system to

Kårstø Kårstø is an industrial facility located near the village of Susort, along the Boknafjorden, in the municipality of Tysvær in Rogaland county, Norway. The site features a number of natural gas processing, natural gas processing plants that refi ...

, and in part through the Haltenpipe gasline to Tjeldbergodden.Facts 2009 p. 113 A

methanol Methanol (also called methyl alcohol and wood spirit, amongst other names) is an organic chemical compound and the simplest aliphatic Alcohol (chemistry), alcohol, with the chemical formula (a methyl group linked to a hydroxyl group, often ab ...

plant built by Statoil and ConocoPhilips is located near the gas terminal at Tjeldbergodden. The annual delivery of Heidrun gas to the methanol plant is approximately 700 million cubic metres. The methanol plant initiated production in June 1997. Gas is also delivered to a nearby gas fractionation and

liquefaction In materials science, liquefaction is a process that generates a liquid from a solid or a gas or that generates a non-liquid phase which behaves in accordance with fluid dynamics. It occurs both naturally and artificially. As an example of t ...

plant, which has an annual capacity of 35 million cubic metres.Facts 2009 p. 205 The total recoverable gas reserves at the Heidrun field has been estimated to be 41.6 billion cubic metres, while the estimated remaining amount as of 31 December 2008 was 30.1 billion cubic metres.

References

External links

{{Portal, Norway, Energy
Haltenpipe (Gassco website)
Energy infrastructure completed in 1996 North Sea energy Natural gas pipelines in Norway Energy in Norway Pipelines under the North Sea 1996 establishments in Norway