TPG 4140 Natural Gas – Fall 2011

Hammerfest LNG (Snøhvit)

Jostein Pettersen
Outline

•Overview – Snøhvit field development and Hammerfest LNG

plant
•Subsea installations, pipeline
•Land plant
•Plant construction
•LNG shipment
•LNG receiving terminal

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Snøhvit LNG Project - Hammerfest
Made possible through technology development
• First gas development project in the Barents sea
(Hammerfest: 70 north)
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• First base load LNG plant in Europe (4.3 Mtpa)

• Key technologies
– Full subsea field with remote operation
– Record-distance multiphase flow (143 km)
– Path-breaking LNG process technology
– Sequestration and storage of CO2 separated from
feedgas (700 000 tons annually)
Sakhalin 2

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,
Brunei

NORWAY
LNG

ADGAS
Oman LNG

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Hammerfest – Melkøya (May 2006)

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Snøhvit facts
The first gas development project in the Barents Sea

 Discovered: 1981 – 84
 Fields: Snøhvit, Albatross and Askeladd fields in
the Barents Sea
 Water depth: 250 – 340 m
 Distance to shore: 140 km
 Gas in place (GIIP): 317 GSm3 or
11.2 TCF (terra cubic feet)
 Condensate: 34 MSm3
 Owners:

Statoil ASA (Operator) 33.53 %

Petoro AS 30.00 %

Total E&P Norge AS 18.40 %

GdF SUEZ Norge AS 12.00 %

Amerada Hess Norge AS 3.26 %

RWE Dea Norge AS 2.81 %

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 Snøhvit LNG
Value chain

Field
Pipeline LNG plant Shipping Receiving
development
terminal

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 Slug catcher Inlet facilities

SNØHVIT Pretreatment
Simplified overview

Carbon dioxide

MEG LNG production

recovery Precooling cycle Liquefaction cycle Subcooling cycle

Snøhvit
Production wells
Fractionation

Production wells

Plem

Condensate production
CO2 Injection well

LPG production Storage and loading:

CDU LNG, LPG, condensate

Production wells

Albatross

Seabed
CO2 Injection Production well
well Reservoir

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Prepared by Petrolink
Snøhvit offshore – a subsea development
Snøhvit 8 wells + 1 CO2 injector
6 wells + CO2 in 2004/2005, 2 wells in 2011

Albatross 4 wells
3 wells in 2005/2006, 1 well in 2014

Askeladd 8 wells
All wells in 2014/2015

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Hammerfest LNG plant - block flow diagram
N2 to atm.
CO2 reinjection
(to pipeline)

CO2 drying
and Nitrogen
recompression removal
Fuel gas
system LNG
Storage

Feed from
pipeline Slug Inlet facilities/ CO2 De- Mercury Natural gas LNG
catcher Metering removal hydration removal liquefaction Storage

C1 / C2 / C3 Refrig. Make
-up
Fractionation
MEG (Refrigerant LPG
Recovery Make-up) Storage

Lean MEG
(to pipeline)
Condensate Condensate
treatment Storage
Utility Flare Control
Systems Facilities room

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 LAYOUT - HAMMERFEST LNG PLANT
Area 1 Area 2 Area 3

HP flare

Grid substation LP flare

Subsea road tunnel Camp area

Administration building / control room

Sea water outlet /sea water inlet

Holding basin / waste water treatment
Utility substation
MDEA storage / fuel gas
Compressed air and inert gas facilities Condensate storage
Landfall tank
Offshore utility substation
MEG process area LNG storage tanks
MEG substation Product jetty
MEG storage tank area
LPG storage tank
Hot oil and chemical Storage & loading substation
storage tanks N2 cold box
Pig receiver NG Cold box
Process substation

Electrical power generation

Compression area, barge
Process area, barge

Construction jetty

Slug catcher

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 HAMMERFEST LNG – Process barge
1
3
2 Natural gas Cold
Box

Nitrogen Removal
Cold Box
Process
substation

Process area

Compressor area

Electric power
generation
 Work of liquefaction - effect of cooling sink temperature
Basis sink temperature is 30 °C
% Reduction in Compressor

30
25
20
Work

15
10
5
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32
Heat sink temperature

Power input to refrigeration process is reduced by 1% per degree

reduction in cooling air or water temperature

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Mixed Fluid Cascade (MFC®) Liquefaction process and
power/heat generation at Hammerfest

65 MW

NGL

32 MW

65
MW

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Cold box
Containing cryogenic
equipment

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LNG/LPG/Condensate storage during
construction
LNG
Condensate
125.00
75.000 m3
0 m3

LNG
125.00
0 m3

LPG
45.000
m3

Photo: Eiliv Leren

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 Product Jetty during construction
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Melkøya before construction start-up…
June 2001

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Melkøya August 2006

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During and after ”Narve” storm – Jan 2006

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 Prefabrication and use of
large modules
Why this very large extent of
prefabrication?
• Harsh weather conditions
• Remoteness – lack of necessary
infrastructure
• Reduce the necessity of steel work at site
• Higher productivity at construction yard
• Reduce work at site in general -
of the total estimate of 15 million man-
hours to build the plant, 50 % is done at
site.

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 Slug catcher

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 MEG tanks

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 Heat
exchangers

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 Kuldeboks Cold box

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Cold box

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 Process
plant

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Prefabrication – LNG plant on a barge
Process systems on the barge
Weight: 21.000 tonnes
Height over deck: 60 m

Barge
Weight: 10.000 tonnes
Size: 154 x 54 x 9m

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Blue Marlin and process barge in Cadiz….

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Hammerfest – here we are!

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In-docking of process-barge….

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21 August 2007: Production start

13.09.07 First LNG to tank

26.09.07 First condensate cargo
20.10.07 First LNG cargo
 Continuous development of competence and
improvement of operations
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21.08.2007 - 06.10.2007 - 25.01.2008 - 12.04.2008 - 10.07.2008 23.08.2008 30.10.2008 15.01.2009 06.05.2009
24.09.2007 28.10.2007 27.01.2008 13.04.2008

CO2 emissions (ktons)

Heat exchangers in liquefaction system
 LNG carriers
 4 new carriers built - Moss type
(spherical tanks)
 L: 290 m, W: 49 m , H: 53 m
 145 000 m3
 Made in Japan
 Delivery November 2005 to April
2006

LNG: 70 cargoes a year

LPG: 20 000 tons
Condensate: 40 000 tons
LPG/Condensate:
15-20 cargoes a year

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 Shipping and new markets…
Melkøya - Cove Point: ca. 20 days ”return”
Melkøya – Bilbao: ca. 12 days ”return”

Cove Point
annually 2.4
billion cubic
metres

Iberdrola S.A.
annually 1.6
billion cubic
metres

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