Ormen Lange is a natural gas field on the Norwegian continental shelf. It is situated 120 km northwest of Kristiansund, where seabed depths vary between 800 and 1100 m. The field is named after the famous longship Ormen Lange of Olaf Tryggvason, a 10th-century Viking king of Norway.
History
Production of gas began with three wells in September 2007.[1] The King and Queen of Norway attended the official opening[2] of this project, delivered on time and within budget, on 6 October 2007, at the football stadium in Molde. During the opening, King Harald officially opened the terminal which would supply Great Britain with enough natural gas to cover 20% of its total annual needs.
The proposal to build the Langeled subsea pipeline, the world’s second longest subsea export pipeline after Nord Stream 1,[3]