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Specifications - Skinfaks Development and Rimfaks Expansion Project, Norway
| Key Data |
| Name | Skinfaks / Rimfaks |
| Operator | Statoil |
| Equity | Statoil – 61% |
| | Petero – 30% |
| | Norsk Hydro – 9% |
| Location | North Sea, Tampen area |
| Total Investment | NOK3.4bn |
| Blocks | 33/12 – Skinfaks, 34/10 – Rimfaks |
| Distance to Land | 190km east-southeast to Bergen |
| Recoverable Reserves | 70 million barrels of oil equivalent |
| Host Platform | Gullfaks C |
| Increase | 35% of the Gullfaks licence oil production |
| Construction |
| Subsea 7 | NOK190m |
| Work | EPIC |
| Pipelines | 2 x parallel 12km 10in flowlines |
| | 1 x 4.5km 8in flowline |
| Vessels | Skandi Navica and Skandi Neptun |
| Subsea Connection | Saipem |
| Platform Modifications | Fabricom |
| Value | NOK170m |
| Drilling Contract | Transocean |
| Value | NOK550m |
| Subsea Hardware | FMC Kongsberg |
| Value | NOK500m |
| Equipment | Subsea template |
| | Satellite flowbase and control distribution |
| | 6 x subsea trees |
| | 2 x manifolds – a fixed HOST with manifold control distribution system and a tie-in manifold |
| Horizontal Trees | 10,000psi |
| Bore Size | 7in x 2in |
| Electrohydraulic Topside Control System | 17km (11 miles) subsea control cable |