Full pipe production in the workshop

Text and video: Sveinung W. Jensen, Tellus Communications

– There is full activity in the workshop, says foreman Kai Arne Reppen.

Tratec Halvorsen will produce several separate offshore modules. Each module consists of a frame structure, pipes and tanks.

- A large project that will give work to many people in the workshop until October, and which, professionally speaking, is right in the middle of nowhere for us. There is a lot of mechanical work and welding. Altogether, we are talking about around 900 pipe welds, says project manager Svein Kenneth Krossli.

BOTH PROJECTS must have modules for one air dryer and two compressors. In addition, Tratec Halvorsen will supply a module for an emergency generator.

Each module consists of a frame structure, pipes and tanks, plus various electrical instruments and valves.

The assembly of the modules must be carried out by the customer himself.

– PARTS VI will produce belong together, but we are not the ones who will assemble them. We will deliver "bits and pieces", says Krossli.

Tratec Halvorsen is one of around 200 supplier companies in Norway that will contribute directly to the next two major developments on the Norwegian continental shelf - Yggdrasil and Valhall PWP-Fenris.

A total of NOK 165 billion will be invested. The Norwegian share of the deliveries is around 65 per cent, and the projects will contribute 130,000 man-years in Norway throughout the lifetime of the fields.