Vesterled Gas Pipeline
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Vesterled Gas pipeline is a natural gas pipeline system running from the Heimdal Riser platform in the North Sea to a terminal at St. Fergus in the U.K.[1]
Location
The pipeline runs from the Heimdal riser platform in the North Sea to St. Fergus in northern U.K.[2]
Project Details
- Operator: Gassco [3]
- Owner: Gassled[3]
- Parent company:
- Capacity: 13.47 bcm/y[4]
- Length: 360 km[4]
- Diameter: 32 in[4]
- Status: Operating
- Start year: 1978, 2001[4]
- Cost:
- Financing:
- Associated infrastructure:
Background
The Vesterled pipeline was previously referred to as the the Frigg Norwegian Pipeline (FNP), which was commissioned in 1978 to carry gas from the Frigg field in the North Sea to the U.K.[5] In 2001 after production at the FRIGG field ceased, Gassco renamed the pipeline and repurposed it for transporting gas from nearby fields. [4] The FNP ran parallel to a British pipeline –the FUKA – which was completed in 1976.[1]
Total investments in the system reached US $108 million. Vesterled Joint Venture was originally operated by Hydro with a 13.86 percent interest. Other partners were Statoil with 12.28 percent, SDOE (Petoro) with 60 percent, TotalFinaElf with 11.48 percent and ExxonMobil with the remaining 2.38 percent.[6]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vesterled, Gassco, accessed April, 2018
- ↑ Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. "TUF - Main piplelines. The dataset contains not infield pipelines". Norwegian Petroleum Directorate - Open data. https://www.npd.no/en/about-us/information-services/open-data/. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
{{cite web}}: External link in|location= - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "NSTA Offshore Infrastructure (WGS84)". opendata-nstauthority.hub.arcgis.com. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Gassco". map.gassco.eu (in norsk). Retrieved 2025-07-11.
- ↑ Frigg, University of Aberdeen, accessed April, 2018
- ↑ Vesterled Pipeline On Stream, Platts, October 2, 2001
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External resources
External articles
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