Hydro Award Aker Troll B Produced Water Mods Contract

Hydro has awarded Aker Kvaerner the modification contract to further improve cleaning of produced water from the Troll B platform. The modifications will be done to meet the official requirement of zero discharge of environmentally harmful emissions into the ocean. The contract value is approximately NOK 60 million.

Aker Kvaerner Offshore Partner in Bergen, Norway, will start engineering and detailed planning of the work immediately. The equipment is to be mechanical complete and ready for use by 1 August 2006.

Aker Kvaerner Offshore Partner will be responsible for engineering, procurement, hook-up and installation offshore. The largest unit of the contract is the purification plant delivered by Epcon.

"This work is just one of a series of initiatives to meet our goals of zero emissions, where many initiatives are being implemented in the Troll and Oseberg fields. The test period has shown that Epcon is a good product. Apart from this product, which we have participated in the development of, a series of technical adjustments and changes to procedures on the operative side are being carried out in order to meet the target of zero environmentally-harmful emissions to the sea," says Gunnar Breivik, head of HMS in Hydro's operative sector.

Aker Kværner Elektro are responsible for all electrical installations and instrumentation associated with this task.

The installation work at sea will commence on February 25 next year. Connection of the new equipment on Troll B will be prepared in conjunction with the platform's audit stoppage in the summer of 2006.

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Posted 04/11/05

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