Aker Solutions opens new subsea facility at Egersund yard

Aker Solutions is today officially opening a new subsea facility at its yard in Egersund, west Norway. The new subsea hall will add another capacity to the yard and help further develop Aker Solutions’ leading position within subsea processing technologies.

The first project to be undertaken in the subsea hall is the assembly and testing of the groundbreaking Ormen Lange subsea compression station pilot that Aker Solutions is developing for Statoil. The new hall is tailored to handle highly sensitive subsea equipment including strict demands for cleanliness. It is designed to handle large structures such as the Ormen Lange subsea compression station pilot, which will measure 35 x 6.5 x 13 metres and weigh 1,100 tonnes when assembled. The hall covers an area of 1,900 m2 and is 26 m tall. Total investment is approximately NOK 40 million.

In addition to Ormen Lange, there is a huge amount of undeveloped gas fields all over the world where this technology can be applied in order to increase production and recovery rates.