Knarr gas and oil field is located approximately 100km north of Statfjord in the northern North Sea.
Gassco asset management executive vice-president Svein Birger Thaule said: "We’ve had a close and good collaboration with Knarr operator BG Norge Ltd throughout the process of preparing the pipeline for operation.
"The next milestone now is to complete emptying water from the pipeline and start filling it with gas. Start-up is expected during the spring."
The Knarr Gas Pipeline Joint Venture owns the 12-inch pipeline and also has technical responsibility for its operation.
The new 106km rich gas pipeline, which is tied into the existing Far North Liquids and Associated Gas System (Flags), has a technical capacity of 1.7 million standard cubic meters per day.
