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.

Location

The pipeline runs from the Heimdal riser platform in the North Sea to St. Fergus in northern U.K.

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Project Details

• Operator: Gassco
• Owner: Gassled
• Parent company:
• Capacity: 13.47 bcm/y
• Length: 360 km
• Diameter: 32 in
• Status: Operating
• Start year: 1978, 2001
• 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. In 2001 after production at the FRIGG field ceased, Gassco renamed the pipeline and repurposed it for transporting gas from nearby fields. The FNP ran parallel to a British pipeline –the FUKA – which was completed in 1976.

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.

Articles and resources

External articles

Wikipedia also has an article on Vesterled (Vesterled). This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.