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The Sleipner gas field is a natural gas field about 250km west of Stavanger in the North Sea. The Sleipner oil rig field is operated by Statoil and is the second largest gas producer in the North sea after Troll. Its history began with a dramatic failure of the original platform hull which sank to the bottom of a Norwegian field causing a Richter magnitude scale 3 earthquake as it hit the seabed.

Shown in this oil rig stock photo is the Sleipner T and Sleipner A platforms joined by a bridge. Sleipner T is a carbon dioxide treatment platform. The carbon dioxide is then transported to the Sleipner B wellhead platform and injected into the Utsira reservoir. Sleipner was the world’s first offshore carbon capture and storage plant and the amount of CO2 injected into the reservoir since 1996 is more than the amount emitted by the total Norwegian fleet over two years.

This offshore oil and gas stock image was taken from the DOF-owned Skandi Bergen vessel, a multipurpose support vessel with two working class Schilling remotely operated vehicles (ROVs).

  • Taken: 27-02-2009 17:20
  • Exposure: 0.001s at f/6.3, ISO1600
  • Focal Length: 100mm
  • Camera: Canon EOS 5D
  • Copyright: ©Leon Steber