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Snohvit is Europe’s first Liquefied Natural Gas plant and is currently being built in the port of Cadiz in southern Spain. It is the first time a natural gas treatment plant has been built so far away from where it is to be installed.
The reason for this seemingly complicated construction project was in large part due to the torrential weather conditions of the Arctic. If constructed in-situ, the project could potentially take much more time and the risk to human life would be catastrophic.
Ultimately this was a huge logistical gamble and a fantastically ambitious journey. Employees worked flat-out to construct Snohvit on a gargantuan floating platform the size of two soccer fields. The real journey began as it got ready to sail 4,000km north towards the icy Arctic wastes, which will be its final home.
The Snohvit Project will be the first offshore gas field found in the Barents Sea and also the only subsea development where all functions will be remotely controlled via an operations ‘hub’ on the land, some 160km away.
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