Statoil, which operates and develops the field, said that Snohvit is the first field on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) that can be remotely operated from land.
The NOK8 billion subsea development’s offshore systems are located on the seabed and are controlled from land via a 144 kilometer control cable, while the wellstream is transported ashore via a 143 kilometer pipeline.
Both pipeline and cable are the longest of their kind in the world and represent advances in equipment and multiphase technology developed on the NCS, Statoil said.
The company revealed that subsea template equipment at Snohvit, the main pipeline to shore and all involved control systems are now on stream, and added that no ships or platforms will be visible at sea level when the field itself comes on stream.
Statoil confirmed that the project has been completed without the emission of harmful discharges into the sea.
