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Contract award for Snøhvit Future project
Equinor, on behalf of the Snøhvit Unit partners*, has awarded Aibel a front-end engineering and design contract (FEED) for modification of the Hammerfest LNG plant in connection with the Snøhvit Future project. The FEED contract has an estimated value of NKr140mn ($15mn) and will cover two sub-projects under the Snøhvit Future development – onshore compression to maintain plateau production and Hammerfest LNG electrification to minimise Snøhvit’s carbon footprint.
‘Snøhvit Future is a complex project that will require large modification work at the Hammerfest LNG plant,’ notes Peggy Krantz-Underland, Equinor Chief Procurement Officer.
‘With the Snøhvit Future project we aim to ensure further value creation from the Snøhvit field and to deliver on our ambitions for emission reductions in Norway. The Snøhvit field contains enough gas to maintain production beyond 2050, and Hammerfest LNG will secure jobs for many years to come,’ adds Trond Bokn, Acting Senior Vice President for Project Development in Equinor.
Equinor and partners are working towards two final investment decisions (FIDs) for the sub-projects in 2H2021.
*The Snøhvit Unit partners are Equinor Energy (operator), Petoro, Total, Neptune Energy and Wintershall Dea.
Hammerfest LNG plant
Photo: Øivind Haug/Equinor
