Statoil taps Foster Wheeler for Arctic LNG work
14 Apr 2011
Reading, UK – Statoil Petroleum AS has awarded Foster Wheeler a pre-FEED contract for the Snøhvit Future Development Project at Statoil’s Melkøya-based LNG facility on Melkøya Island, about 450km north of the Arctic Circle, Hammerfest, Norway.
Further releases of pre-FEED work to Foster Wheeler under the existing contract are likely to be made during 2011, depending upon the development option(s) selected by Statoil, said a 14 April Foster Wheeler statement.
Foster Wheeler’s scope of work will include concept design activities in order to support the finalization of the development concept and of the plant capacity for the expansion of LNG production at the Melkøya LNG facility, as well as energy optimization investigations.
Foster Wheeler said its involvement through this contract will continue through 2011.
The existing Snøhvit LNG facility is the world’s northernmost LNG facility and has a design capacity of 4,200ktpa.
Commissioned in 2007, it processes gas transported through 143-km pipeline from the subsea facilities on the Snøhvit and Albatross fields, which comprise the first offshore developments in the Barents Sea.
