Grane oil pipeline is a pipeline system in western Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It is 220 kilometres (136.7 mi) long and runs from Grane oil field

Grane oil field

Grane is an offshore oil field in the North Sea located west of the city of Haugesund on the western coast of Norway. It is Norway's first heavy crude oil production field and Statoil's largest heavy oil field. The oil from the field, located in Block 25/11 is transported to Sture terminal via...

 to Sture terminal

Sture terminal

Sture Terminal is an oil terminal at Stura in Øygarden municipality, northwest of Bergen, Norway. It receives oil and condensate from Oseberg, Veslefrikk, Brage, Oseberg Sør, Oseberg Øst, Tune and Huldra fields through Oseberg Transport System and oil from Grane oil field through Grane oil...

, located 65 kilometres (40.4 mi) north of Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

, Norway. The pipeline operations commenced with start of production in the Grane oil field.

Technical features

The pipeline diameter is 29 inches (736.6 mm). Capacity of Grane oil pipeline is 34000 m3/d of oil. The greatest sea depth pipeline passes through is 355 metres (1,164.7 ft) - through the Norwegian Trench

Norwegian trench

The Norwegian trench or Norwegian channel is an elongated depression in the sea floor off the southern coast of Norway....

. Over 110,000 tonnes of rock and gravel was used on the seabed to establish the correct foundation for the pipeline.
The estimated lifetime of the pipeline is expected to be 30 years.

Ownership

The Grane pipeline is operated by Statoil

Statoil

Statoil ASA is a Norwegian petroleum company established in 1972. It merged with Norsk Hydro in 2007 and was known as StatoilHydro until 2009, when the name was changed back to Statoil ASA. The brand Statoil was retained as a chain of fuel stations owned by StatoilHydro...

 and includes other partners.

Company	Share
Petoro AS Petoro Petoro, a company wholly owned by the state of Norway, manages Norway's portfolio of exploration and production licenses for petroleum and natural gas on the Norwegian continental shelf. This portfolio is collectively called State's Direct Financial Interest . The company also has a control...	48.60%
ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Norway AS ExxonMobil Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation. It is a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company, and was formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. Its headquarters are in Irving, Texas...	25.60%
Statoil	24.40%
Norske Conoco AS ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips Company is an American multinational energy corporation with its headquarters located in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas in the United States...	2.4%

Total investment at start-up was nearly 1.6 billion NOK

Norwegian krone

The krone is the currency of Norway and its dependent territories. The plural form is kroner . It is subdivided into 100 øre. The ISO 4217 code is NOK, although the common local abbreviation is kr. The name translates into English as "crown"...

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