By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Apr. 13 -- Statoil ASA has received two giant natural gas compressors for use in its gas liquefication unit in its Snow White gas field, north of Hammerfest, Norway, in the Arctic Ocean.
The compressors were supplied by a unit of Siemens AG, Duisburg, Germany.
The largest of the two turbocompressors, LNG 24 XT, compresses as much as 100,000 kg of carbon dioxide from 1 bar to 62 bar/hr at a rating of 10 Mw. The second compressor, LNG 27 XT, compresses as much as 71,000 kg of nitrogen-methane mixture from 1 bar to 50 bar/hr at a rating of 15 Mw. The units were made to operate in temperatures as cold as -22º C.
The two compressors are part of a 30 million euro order that includes a total of six compressors. Statoil plans to ship about 5.67 billion cu m/year of LNG from Snow White field during 2005-35.
