Snorre is an oil and gas field in the Tampen area in the southern part of the

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. The sea depth in the area is . Snorre has been operational since August 1992. It was the first field developed by

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. A ''

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'' knucklebone, specimen PMO 207.207, was discovered in 1997 at while drilling the Snorre oil field.Hurum, J.H., Bergan, M., Müller, R., Nystuen, J.P. & Klein, N. (2006): A Late Triassic dinosaur bone, offshore Norway. ''Norwegian Journal of Geology'', Vol. 86, pp. 117-123. Trondheim 2006. ISSN 029-196X

Production

Snorre A platform in the south is a floating steel facility for accommodation, drilling and processing. Snorre A has also a separate process module for production from the Vigdis field. A subsea template with ten well slots, Snorre UPA, is located centrally in the field and connected to Snorre A. Oil and gas from Snorre A is piped to the nearby

Statfjord A platform The Statfjord oil field is a large oil and gas field covering 580 km2 in the U.K.-Norwegian boundary of the North Sea at a water depth of 145 m, discovered in 1974 by Mobil and since 1987 operated by Equinor. It is a trans-median field cro ...

for final processing. Snorre B platform is located in the northern part of the field and is a semi-submersible integrated

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, processing and accommodation steel facility. Oil from Snorre B is piped 45 km to Statfjord B platform for storage and export. The Snorre field is operated by

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. In 2009, Statoil started a project to upgrade the offshore production complex. The

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is requesting Statoil to build a new platform at the field.

Reserves

The reserves consist of of oil, of natural gas, 4.8 million tons of natural gas liquids.

References

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