Nyhamna gas processing plant - video gallery
Natural gas from the deep-water Ormen Lange field off Norway’s coast meets about 20% of the UK’s gas needs. It first arrives onshore at the Nyhamna processing plant, where impurities are removed, then piped to the UK. A huge project (the Nyhamna Expansion) recently upgraded the plant to receive gas from more fields through a new pipeline, allowing it to supply enough gas for up to 22 million European homes.
The Nyhamna story in film
The completion of Polarled pipeline, which runs from the Shell-operated Nyhamna onshore facility on the west coast of Norway to north of the Polar circle
Title: {Polarled completed}
Duration: {02:05} minutes
Description:
{Highlighting the completion of the Polarled pipeline}
[Background music plays]
{The Sound of Shell. Atmospheric and positive}
[film sequence]
{Showing the world’s largest piplelaying ship, Solitaire with Nyhamna onshore facilities in the background}
[Text displays]
{ In March 2015, the Polarled pipeline laying commenced. It was laid by the world’s largest pipe laying vessel “Solitaire” from Allseas. The development operator is Statoil.}
[Film sequence]
{People by night at the landfall at Nyhamna. The back of the Solitaire ship shows the pipeline coming out towards shore. Then we see inside the ship where pipes are being welded together.}
[Text displays]
{The pipeline consists of more than 40 000 pipes, each of which is 12 metres in length and has a diameter of 36 inches.}
[Film sequence]
{Continue from inside the ship and welding work. Then from the landfall where you see the pipe coming onshore and are pulled towards the ending point onshore.}
[Text displays]
{The pipeline extends 480 kilometres north from Nyhamna in Møre and Romsdal county to the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea.}
[Film sequence]
{Activity in the landfall as the pipe is moving towards its ending point onshore.}
[Text displays]
{At the Shell operated Nyhamna Gas Plant, preparations for receiving gas from Polarled started in 2013.}
[Film sequence]
{Drone shot of the onshore site where a big module is transported. Close up on excavation work from site. Close up of pipework with workers placing a new pipe. Then air shot with overview of the site.}
[Text displays]
{This project includes expanding the plant capacity from 70 million Sm3 to 84 million Sm3 gas per day. Booster compressors are also installed to increase recovery from the Ormen Lange field.}
[Film sequence]
{Close-up: Export and import pipelines in the landfall with to persons in the background}
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{Gas is exported to the UK through the 1200 kilometre-long Langeled pipeline.}
[Film sequence]
{Close-up with Polarled pipeline in front with the export pipeline Langeled and the two import pipelines in the background. Then five persons stand by the Polarled pipeline giving high five.}
[Text displays]
{In early 2017 the Polarled pipeline was connected to Nyhamna… }
[Film sequence]
{Air shot at the full onshore plant. We move towards the sea.}
[Text displays]
{…resulting in a continuous pipeline running from north of the Arctic Circle off the coast of Norway to the southern UK, approximately 1700 kilometres in total length.}
[Film sequence]
{Air shot at the full onshore plant. We move towards the sea. Next clip shows small islands with Nyhamna in the background in a distance.}
[Text displays]
{Gas is exported to the UK through the 1200 kilometre-long Langeled pipeline.}
[Film sequence]
{Camera is fronting the open sea.}
[Text displays]
{Polarled partners:
Statoil, Petoro, OMV, TOTAL, Shell, DEA Norge, ConocoPhillips, Edison, CapeOmega, Wintershall
Ormen Lange partners:
Shell, Petoro, Statoil, Dong, ExxonMobil}
Shell pecten and Statoil logo fades in
Nyhamna gas plant receives a 2,500-tonne delivery
Title: {Nyhamna gas plant a 2,500-tonne delivery}
Duration: {02:05} minutes
Description:
{Highlighting Shell’s Expansion of the gas plant Nyhamna in Norway. Last and biggest module arriving}
[Background music plays]
{The Sound of Shell. Atmospheric, builds gradually, dramatic and positive}
[Time-lapse sequence]
{Zoom into a hangar while huge doors are opening to reveal a giant module.}
[Text displays]
{This is the last and biggest of 54 huge modules packed with equipment to process natural gas. It is destined for a gas plant expansion project in Nyhamna, Norway.}
[Time-lapse sequence]
{The module is transported on a trailer with many wheels from the hangar and down towards the jetty}
[Text displays]
{The module weighs 2,500 tonnes, more than four fully-laden Airbus A380-800 airliners. It took 300,000 working hours to build.}
[Time-lapse sequence]
{The module is placed onto a barge}
[Text displays]
{After being loaded onto a barge it starts a 450-kilometre journey from Stord to Nyhamna up the coast of Norway.}
[Time-lapse sequence]
{Time-lapse camera follows the 40-hour journey from Stord to Nyhamna along the coast of Norway}
[Text displays]
{After 40 hours it arrives at Nyhamna, where it is offloaded in Norwegian winter weather}
[Time-lapse sequence]
{Time-lapse shows how the module is transported on a large trailer with many wheels from the jetty along narrow roads to its final destination on the project site}
[Text displays]
{Carried on a trailer with 500 wheels, the module is carefully transported along narrow roads to the project site.
When installed, the module will receive gas piped 480 kilometres through a new pipeline called Polarled.}
[Time-lapse sequence]
{Fade from the module ending its journey over to overview picture of the plant by night covered in snow}
[Text displays]
{Once the expansion project is complete Nyhamna will provide enough gas for up to 22 million European homes.}
[Animated sequence]
{Ormen Lange and Polarled partners are named. Ormen Lange Partners: Shell, Petoro, Statoil, DONG, ExxonMobil. Polarled Partners: Statoil, Petoro, Wintershall, OMV, Shell, TOTAL, DEA, Edison, ConocoPhillips, Maersk Oil, GDF SUEZ.
Shell pecten fades in with accompanying audio mnemonic}
Nyhamna expansion: unlocking more energy resources for Europe
Title: Nyhamna Expansion Project – Unlocking More Energy Resources For Europe
Duration: 1:22 minutes
Description:
The Nyhamna gas plant is being expanded to allow it to provide enough gas to power nearly 22 million European homes.
Nyhamna Expansion Project – Unlocking More Energy Resources For Europe
[Background music plays]
Slow, rhythmic, percussive beat.
[Narrator]
The Nyhamna gas plant in Norway supplies approximately 20% of the UK’s natural gas.
[Animated sequence]
Aerial view of Nyhamna gas plant located on Norwegian coastline.
Aerial view of pipelines.
Panoramic view of Nyhamna gas plant with mountains in the background.
[Text displays]
20% of the UK’s natural gas.
[Narrator]
Gas flows from the Ormen Lange field located 120 kilometres offshore deep beneath the Norwegian sea.
[Animated sequence}
Geological diagram of Ormen Lange field.
Aerial view approaching Nyhamna gas plant from sea.
[Narrator]
The plant is expanding to boost recovery from Ormen Lange and receive gas from more fields.
[Animated sequence]
Close-up view of rock being broken up by hydraulic rock breaker.
Caterpillar hydraulic excavator breaking rock with module construction in background.
Surveyor using survey equipment.
Aerial view of new construction site.
Engineers talking together.
[Narrator]
Nyhamna will operate further into the future.
[Animated sequence]
Speeded up view of crane swinging module into position.
[Narrator]
The expansion includes more than 50 new modules
[Test displays]
More than 50 new modules
[Animated sequence}
Module being manoeuvred into place
[Narrator]
Each weighing up to 2,500 tonnes.
[Text displays}
Weighing up to 2,500 tonnes.
[Animated sequence]
Speeded up view of another module being manoeuvred into place.
[Narrator]
A 480-kilometre pipeline had to be laid.
[Text displays]
480-kilometre pipeline
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Pipeline being winched into gas plant at night.
Pipeline approaching illuminated gas plant site.
[Narrator]
The project involves 6,000 people working across the globe.
[Text displays]
6,000 people
[Animated sequence]
People working in hangar on module.
Workmen looking at and discussing piece of equipment.
Workmen talking and laughing outside in gas plant site.
[Narrator]
Meticulous planning and close collaboration help meet the challenge of working around live operations.
[Animated sequence]
Concrete mixer truck driving through gas plant site.
Close-up of truck operator preparing to unload cement.
Cement being unloaded.
Operator guiding pipeline sections into place.
Operators working on length of connecting pipeline.
Operator confirming successful connection of pipeline sections.
[Text displays]
Safety first
[Animated sequence]
Operator smiles and gives thumbs up.
Operator secures pipeline sections with bolt.
[Narrator]
Once complete Nyhamna could provide enough gas to power nearly 22 million European homes.
[Text displays]
22 million European homes
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Bus driving through illuminated gas plant site.
Longer view of illuminated gas plant site.
Distant view of illuminated site against a black night sky.
[Text displays]
POLARLED PARTNERS:
Statoil, Petoro, Wintershall, OMV, Shell, TOTAL, DEA, Edison, ConocoPhillips, Maersk Oil, GDF SUEZ
ORMEN LANGE PARTNERS:
Shell, Petoro, Statoil, DONG, ExxonMobil
[Music draws to a close]
[Graphic}
Shell logo
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Short melody ends video
Connecting the new Polarled pipeline at Nyhamna
Title: Polarled pull-in at Nyhamna
Duration: {2:08} minutes
Description:
Connecting the Polarled pipeline at the Nyhamna gas plant
Watch time-lapse footage from the start of construction on the new 480-kilometre Polarled pipeline in March 2015 when the world’s largest pipe-laying vessel, Solitaire, arrived at the Nyhamna. Around 400 engineers worked day and night shifts over 72 hours to connect the end of the pipeline to the gas plant in an operation requiring millimetre precision.
Polarled pull-in at Nyhamna Transcript
[Background music plays]
Soft, uplifting music
[Text displays]
Time-lapse
{ video footage}
The giant pipe-laying ship Solitaire arrives in the fjord by the onshore gas processing plant Nyhamna in daylight and lower it’s stinger to get ready to start pull-in at Nyhamna. During night-time the pipeline Polarled reaches shore in the landfall and you can see the pipeline being pulled in at the pre-prepared landfall by a powerful cable. Pull-in is visualized by time-laps. Several people are involved in the process and follow the pipeline closely. Involved is staff from pipe-lay operator Statoil, Nyhamna operator Shell, and Allseas; the shipping company owning the ship Solitaire. A big milestone is reached as the end point of Polarled is in place and secured at Nyhamna.
Meet the robot inspector
Title: A ROBOT INSPECTOR
Duration: 1:20 minutes
Description:
Shell is using robotic equipment for inspection and maintenance of tanks and vessels at the Nyhamna gas plant in Norway.
A Robot Inspector
[Background music plays]
Slow, rhythmic, percussive beat.
[Animated sequence]
View of craggy landscape, rising over a hill to reveal a gas plant nestled on coastal plain.
[Text displays]
The Nyhamna gas plant, Norway.
[Animated sequence]
Aerial view of gas plant with sea coastline in the background.
Overhead view looking down into gas plant site.
[Text displays]
The plant meets around 20% of UK demand.
[Animated sequence]
Ground level revolving view of tanks and vessels.
[Text displays]
Its 256 tanks and vessels must be checked.
[Animated sequence]
Worm’s-eye revolving view of gas plant structures.
[Text displays]
Isolating tanks for engineers to safely enter takes time.
[Animated sequence]
Heavy round door of tank slowly swings open.
Robotic mechanical arm with camera scanning the inside of tank, illuminated with ultra-bright floodlights.
[Text displays]
A robot offers an answer.
[Animated sequence]
Camera on mechanical arm rotates and scans inside of tank.
Close-up shot of camera on mechanical arm slowly rotating.
[Text displays]
Its mechanical arm holds an advanced camera.
[Animated sequence]
Forklift tractor conveying robotic equipment through the gas plant site.
Engineer guiding robotic equipment into position.
Robotic equipment moving into position, guided by Engineer.
Aerial view of Engineers preparing to insert robotic equipment into tank.
3 Engineers inserting robotic equipment into tank.
[Text displays]
Once inside it sends images to a control centre.
[Animated sequence]
CAD model of plant structure showing insertion position of robotic equipment.
3 Engineers in control centre viewing data on multiple screens.
Close-up shot of Engineer’s hands holding device with images from robotic camera.
[Text displays]
Engineers see any flaws.
[Animated sequence]
Engineers analysing data on screens.
Mechanical arm with four floodlights rotating and inspecting interior of tank.
[Text displays]
In future another robot may first clean inspection spots.
[Animated sequence]
Floodlit mechanical arm scanning inside of tank.
Close-up view of camera on mechanical arm rotating and scanning tank.
[Text displays]
Robots can boost safety and cut operating costs.
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Shell logo
[Text displays]
A/S NORKSE SHELL
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