Gassled Norwegian natural gas pipeline owner
Gassled is a partnership to own the offshore natural gas transportation infrastructure at the Norwegian continental shelf . Its pipelines are operated by Gassco .
Gassled was created in 2002 and it became operational on 1 January 2003.[ 1] Petoro , Norsk Agip , ExxonMobil , Fortum , Norske Shell , Norsk Hydro , Statoil , TotalFinaElf and ConocoPhillips . As of 4 January 2018 [ update] CPP Investment Board , Allianz Capital Partners , and Infinity Investments – 25.553%), CapeOmega (owned by Partners Group Holdings AG – 11.235%), Silex Gas Norway (owned by Allianz – 6.428%), Infragas Norge (owned by CPP Investment Board – 5.006%), Statoil (5%), and Dea Norge (0.081%). Dea has agreed to sell its stake to CapeOmega.[ 2]
Originally, Gassled owned Aasgard Transport, Statpipe , Europipe II , Zeepipe , Franpipe , Oseberg Gas Transport, Vesterled and Norpipe , as also the gas treatment complex at Kårstø , and three receiving terminals at Emden in Germany and one at St Fergus in the United Kingdom .[ 1] Zeebrugge in Belgium and Dunkerque in France , Europipe I , Kvitebjoern pipeline, Norne Gas Transport System, Langeled pipeline and terminal , and Kollsnes gas processing plant were merged into Gassled.[ 1] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5]