Norway’s largest construction site

The population on the small island of Gossen doubled when some 3,500 workers arrived to build the Ormen Lange gas receiving plant.

Some of the world’s largest construction machinery was used to level the site that is located by the mouth of the fjord. Large amounts of rubble had to be blasted out and removed. More than 2000 blasts were required to remove around 2.4 million cubic meters of stone. At its height, 10,000 cubic meters stone were detonated out every day. Bulldozers and wheeled loaders of up to 100 tonnes shifted rubble and debris around the site. In this phase, the machinery used 30,000 liters of diesel every day.

Then the moulding began. The landscape changed character. Most of the huge vehicles were gone, although some continued to remove rubble from the large mountain halls that were blasted out. Many tens of cranes reached for the sky. A small army of foundry workers, iron binders, shuttering carpenters and welders moved in.

2150 kilometers of cables were buried.

People on the island could hear that the work had entered a new phase. The noise took on new sounds and rhythms. From heavy booms that told of blasting, crushing works and the transport of rubble, to the lighter humming of machinery from hoisting cranes and cement trucks. Light hammering from workers laying the line system in the ground. The mixing of cement for solid foundations.

People could see that the work had changed character. There was less dust in the air. And the invasion of people had begun in earnest. The population on the tiny island had soon more than doubled. With so many people at work, the project had also entered a more demanding phase.

With safety in mind

Health, safety and environment was always the first priority when the Ormen Lange development was planned and carried out.

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