BG has contracted Subsea 7 to deliver a bundle solution for the development of the Knarr field. The bundle will be installed in 410m of water depth and will include flowlines for water injection, production and service as well as control tubing and electrical cables. The production flowlines will transport the extracted oil and gas from the subsea wells to a ship (FPSO) for processing, storage and offloading.
For the production pipeline, BUTTING is manufacturing superduplex UNS S32760 pipes with an outer diameter of 219.1mm and wall thicknesses of 15.9mm and 20.6mm. Just under 10km of pipes are being produced in standard lengths of up to 12.2m without circumferential welds.
For the production pipeline, BUTTING is manufacturing superduplex UNS S32760 pipes with an outer diameter of 219.1mm and wall thicknesses of 15.9mm and 20.6mm. Just under 10km of pipes are being produced in standard lengths of up to 12.2m without circumferential welds.
BUTTING will deliver the pipes to Wick in Scotland in a total of four batches by June. While still on land, pipe joints will be welded together to form a single 4.3 kilometer-long pipeline bundle. The actual installation will be done by pulling the bundle out to sea and towing it the 540km from Wick in the North East of Scotland to the Knarr field in Norway. At the final destination, the bundle will be lowered to the bottom of the sea and prepared for 20 years of operation.
