Long distance pipelines Sample Clauses

Long distance pipelines. ‌ For many fields oil is loaded directly onto tankers. The oil is stored in tanks on the field platform and transferred to tankers through separate loading buoys. Several of the larger fields with concrete sub-structures have storage tanks built as part of the subsea structure. From some of the fields the oil is transported to onshore terminals through pipelines. From the central and northern North Sea areas these oil pipelines transport oil to terminals in Norway (Figure 5). From the Ekofisk area oil and gas condensate is transported by pipeline to the UK (Figure 5). A number of large gas pipelines transport gas either directly from the NCS or from onshore processing plants to continental Europe and the UK (Figure 6). The first of the oil and gas export pipelines shown in Figure 6 and