Norway: Stolt awarded contract

Stolt Offshore SA has been awarded a contract from Ormen Lange operator Norsk Hydro in Norway. Stolt Offshore will lay two 125km 6-inch diameter pipelines from the gas processing plant under development at Nyhamna on the west coast of Norway to the Ormen Lange field in a water depth of 850– 1100 metres, together with a 3.6 km 6-inch diameter pipeline between two production manifolds in the Ormen Lange field. The pipelines will be laid by the Seaway Falcon starting in the second quarter of 2006.