ABB Powers Up at Gjoa

Statoil has lined up Sweden's ABB Power Technologies for a NKr500m ($82.6m) job manufacturing and installing a power cable from Mongstad to the Gjoa field, in the North Sea.

The contract covers engineering, procurement, manufacture and installation. The 100km cable will run from Mongstad to the Gjoa platform.

"A solution with power supply from land via cable will have less of an environmental impact compared to a traditional solution with electricity produced at sea," Bjorn Midttun, who heads subsea and pipelines technology on the Gjoa project, said in a release.

The reduction in carbon emissions from Gjoa at full production will equate to the emissions from 100,000 cars, providing the field is supplied with power from the Mongstad energy project's combined heat and power station.

"The cable will be the world's longest for transfer of high-voltage alternating current to floating installations," Midttun added.

"The concept is based on a dynamic high-voltage cable and can be used on other floating installations."

Plans call for Gjoa field to come on stream in 2010.