Shell
Shell and Ormen Lange
Shell operated Ormen Lange is Europe’s third largest gas field, and has the world’s largest gas wells.
Ormen Lange was discovered in 1997 and is the first true deepwater (850 – 1100 meters) project in Norway.
The field is located 120 kilometres north west of Kristiansund in the Norwegian Sea, the reservoir approximately 3000 metres below the sea surface.
The reservoir covers an area about 40 kilometres long and 8 to 10 kilometres wide.
The Ormen Lange gas wells, being drilled in an area with extreme weather conditions and sub-zero water temperatures at seabed, are the world’s largest to date.
The gas is processed onshore at Nyhamna, in Aukra municipality outside the city of Molde, and exported 1200 km to Easington, UK, through the world’s longest offshore gas pipeline, Langeled.
Ormen Lange can deliver close to 20 percent of the UK gas demand, and establish Norway as the world’s second largest exporter of natural gas.
Phase 2 of the Ormen Lange project includes additional subsea templates, wells and field compression.
