NCC awarded Snøhvit contract worth SEK 245 million

NCC has secured the final major maintenance contract involving construction and technical civil engineering services at Snøhvit, Statoil’s natural gas field. The facility is located on Melkøya, outside Hammerfest in Northern Norway. The order is worth approximately SEK 245 million.

Snøhvit is the first facility in Europe for the production and export of liquid natural gas.
The contract becomes effective in May 2007 and extends for five years. NCC will manage the technical maintenance of the facility and be responsible for improvements and modifications.

“Since we have been active at Melkøya for several years and built four large gas tanks, this is a perfect assignment for us. The long-term focus of the contract makes it particularly satisfactory,” says District Manager Tor Nordstrøm.

Snøhvit constitutes the first field development in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea and is the first LNG plant (liquid natural gas) in Europe. Unprocessed gas will be piped from subsea field installations to Hammerfest, in order to be transported by tankers to the market. The plant will be brought on stream this autumn.

NCC plans to have a permanent administrative staff of about five employees at Melkøya. The contract corresponds to 30 full-time positions.

Statoil emphasizes the importance of having a supplier who can utilize local labor from Hammerfest, since this will have a favorable impact on the local society and industry.



For further information, please contact:
Ulf Thorné, Press Relations Manager, NCC Group, +46 8 585 523 46, +46 70 214 77 27