Veidekke ASA: Veidekke to build transformer station for oil platform

Veidekke Entreprenør AS has signed a contract to build an onshore facility at Kollsnes outside Bergen in connection with electrification of the Martin Linge platform in the North Sea. The principal is Siemens, who has a contract for the facility with Total E&P Norge AS. The value of this contract for Veidekke is NOK 150 million excluding VAT.

The contract is a turnkey contract where Veidekke will undertake planning, groundwork and construction of the transformer station. The facility will send high voltage alternating current (AC) through a 161 kilometre subsea cable to the platform. This will be the world's longest cable of its type. The 55 megawatt effect of the cable corresponds to the power requirements of 24,000 homes.

"Electrification of the Norwegian continental shelf is in keeping with the authorities' long-term goal to reduce CO2 emissions from the petroleum industry. Martin Linge will be among the first platforms on the Norwegian continental shelf that replaces all polluting gas turbines at sea with clean, renewable energy from land," says project manager Kjell Skjølingstad with Veidekke.

Construction work is currently starting, and will be completed for testing of the subsea cable in 2015.

For more information please contact:
Project Manager Kjell Skjølingstad, Veidekke Entreprenør AS, tel +47 934 60 094, kjell.skjolingstad@veidekke.no
Communications Manager Helge Dieset, Veidekke ASA, tel. +47 90 55 33 22, helge.dieset@veidekke.no

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