The living quarters module for Statoil's Aasta Hansteen development, offshore Norway, have been lifted onto the project's SPAR topside.
The topside is currently being constructed in Hyundai Heavy Industries yard in Ulsan, South Korea.
The living quarter weighs approximately 3000-tonne and will accommodate 108 people. Around 100 small and large equipment packages have been received from suppliers all over Europe, many of them from Norway. The living quarter was built in The Netherlands, and the 11,000 nautical miles long journey to South Korea took 39 days.
The heavy lift operation took five hours and was performed by a barge crane. First oil from Aasta Hansteen, in the Norwegian Sea, was set back a year, to 2018, Statoil revealed in October.
Aasta Hansteen will be the largest SPAR platform in the world and is the biggest ongoing field development project in the Norwegian Sea. It is one of the main projects in Statoil’s portfolio. The plan for development and operations was approved by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy in 2013.
