Following an extensive, multi-year test program of Shell’s Ormen Lange Pilot, GE Oil & Gas announced that A/S Norske Shell has successfully completed system testing of the world’s first subsea gas compression system with a full subsea power supply, transmission and distribution system that further advances the development of hydrocarbon processing on the seabed.
The Ormen Lange Pilot has been run by A/S Norske Shell and its license partners Petoro, Statoil, Dong and ExxonMobil since 2011 at Shell’s test facility at Nyhamna in Norway where the gas from the Ormen Lange field reaches shore.
GE used, for this project, a 12.5MW Blue-C subsea compressor, the Blue-CTM subsea compressor, Subsea Variable Speed Drives, Subsea Uninterruptible Power Supply, MECON Dry-Mate Connector 145/700, its IFOKUS Electric Actuators, NAXYS Acoustic Leak Detection System for potential gas leakages, and one of its Subsea Switchgear.
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