Application: ESD, HIPPS & CAP (Critical Action Panel)

Installation Area: Kårstø Gas Processing Plant, Norway

Client: MW Kellogg, for Statoil Hydro

Contract Value: £6m

(photo courtesy of Gassco)

Hima-Sella has been awarded a contract to renew some of the major safety equipment at the Kårstø gas plant in southern Norway. Statoil is assisted by MW Kellogg as the EPCA contractor on the project, as it has been on three previous expansions at this facility. This work follows on from a £1m contract successfully completed in 2004. (Please click here to read an in-depth explanation of Hima-Sella's involvement in this key project.)

Located 60km north of Stavanger, the Kårstø plant serves thirty major gas fields and processes more than 30% of all gas exported from Norway into Europe. The plant’s significance to the Norwegian economy means that the technical services provider, Statoil, decided that only the most reliable and cost effective systems could be used.

Hima-Sella is upgrading systems originally installed by HIMA 20 years ago. The work is in three areas: ESD, HIPPS and CAP - replacing the 20 year-old ‘Planar F’ system with state-of-the-art HIMA HIQuad H51q programmable electronic system. The systems will oversee safe operation of the Train 100, 200, 300, 400, Ethane, Propane Caverns, Storage & Loading, Utilities and Asgard Sales Gas plant areas.

The new systems will incorporate Statoil’s technical requirements and latest design standards to make them more efficient and more cost effective and improve system testing on the running plant. Separating the Process Control and Data Acquisition (PCDA) system from the rest of the control measures will give greater flexibility and enhance the system’s already enviable safety record.

The replacement of these systems is part of the NOK6.5 billion (£580 billion - €394 billion) KEP2010 upgrade of the Statpipe/Sleipner area of the plant – the third largest in the world - designed to make it more robust for safe and efficient operations for many years to come. Major work should be finished in 2010 with the project scheduled for completion in 2012.

Please call our sales department on 0161 429 4500 or send an email to sales@hima-sella.co.uk if you require more technical information such as data sheets, or to discuss any application you may be considering.