Aasta Hansteen On Fast Track
Digital technologies, including running a virtual startup, look set to save 40 days from the run-up to first gas processing on Equinor’s Aasta Hansteen development.
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Elaine Maslin is an upstream exploration and production industry focused journalist based in Scotland. Her main area of focus is North West Europe, covering a wide range of technologies, from well intervention and asset integrity to subsea robotics and digitalization.
Digital technologies, including running a virtual startup, look set to save 40 days from the run-up to first gas processing on Equinor’s Aasta Hansteen development.
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Digital technologies, including running a virtual start-up, look set to save 40 days from the run-up to first gas process on Equinor’s Aasta Hansteen development.
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