Stork GLT Receives NAM Contract

Stork GLT (Groningen Long Term), a consortium that consists of Jacobs (design), Stork Industry Services (construction and maintenance management), Siemens Demag Delaval Turbomachinery (compressors), Siemens (compressor motors), and Yokogawa (instrumentation and automation), received a major follow-on contract from the Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V. (NAM) to further renovate the Groningen gasfield, including the installation of compressors.

NAM expects to invest over $800 million on this 8-year project.

NAM discovered the gasfield (Groningen field) in 1959 and started production in 1963. To date, they have extracted around 60 percent of the gasfield's product. Renovations are necessary because the production installations, which have now been in operation for an average of 30 years, are outdated and unable to completely meet future demand. In addition, gas production over many years has diminished the pressure in the gasfield making the installation of compressors necessary to maintain gas production rates.

The consortium has already renovated the Tjuchem, Bierum, de Paauwen, and Siddeburen clusters and installed compressors at two of these, and work is now underway on the next six clusters. This project aims to ensures that the Groningen gasfield will continue to play a key role in providing gas supplies for the Netherlands over the coming decades.

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