Project Profile

Location: Melkøya, Hammerfest
Capacity: 4.3 million tonnes per year
Storage capacity: one 220,000 m3 LNG tank
Suppliers: The Snohvit, Albatross and Askeladd Gas Fields under the Barents Sea
Start-up Year: 2018

The plant was started up in 2007, Snøhvit is the first LNG production plant in Europe. The partners in the Snøhvit licence have conducted a feasibility study of processing capacity expansion of Hammerfest LNG plant, Melkøya called Snøhvit Train II, and have now decided to study technical concepts that may make further expansion economically feasible. The next investment decision is still some years away. A possible investment decision may be made towards the end of 2013 at the earliest, and the plant can be expected to be online in 2018, at the earliest.

Operator:

Statoil: Operator with 33.53% interest

Petoro: 30% interest

Total E&P Norge: 18.4% interest

GDF Suez E&P: 12% interest

Hess: 3.26% interest

RWE Dea Norge: 2.81% interest


Contractors:

AF Group: Civil works of maintenance and modifications

Aibel: Supplier of maintenance and modification services

Bilfinger: Maintenance of Statoil’s LNG export terminal

Østensjø Rederi: Tugboat contract at Melkøya terminal for Statoil including three tugboats and two mooring boats

Dynagas Ltd: The Arctic Aurora, a LNG tanker owned by Dynagas, operates under a time charter with Norway’s Statoil with an initial term of 5 years that expires in July 2018. (June, 2016)