ABB has won an order worth around $90 million from Norwegian energy company Statoil for a high-voltage cable system to supply power from shore to the Johan Sverdrup offshore oil field.
ABB has won an order worth around $90 million from Norwegian energy company Statoil for a high-voltage cable system to supply power from shore to the Johan Sverdrup offshore oil field.
Located 155 km west of Stavanger in the North Sea, Johan Sverdrup is one of the largest offshore oil fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf . Once fully operational, production is estimated to be 550 000 – 650 000 barrels of oil per day, accounting for nearly 40 percent of total oil production from the NCS.
ABB will design, manufacture and install an 80 kV extruded DC cable system with a capacity of 100 MW. At around 200 km in length, it will be the longest extruded submarine cable system to an offshore oil and gas platform facility in the world.
In addition to the environmental benefits of powering the cluster of platforms from shore, the cable solution is safer and more energy-efficient than generating the power offshore using fossil fuels.
In March, ABB was awarded an order to supply the two HVDC converter stations for the same project. One will be located onshore at Haugsneset, to convert grid AC to DC for efficient transmission over 200 km to the second station which is on one of the oil platforms.
ABB’s track record in shore-to-rig includes Statoil´s Troll A 1&2 with 3&4 currently under commissioning, and the Martin Linge platform which will be the world’s longest alternating current (AC) cable from land to an offshore installation when completed