The field is named after the famous longship Ormen Lange of Olaf Tryggvason, a 10th-century Viking king of Norway.

[1] The King and Queen of Norway attended the official opening[2] of this project, delivered on time and within budget, on 6 October 2007, at the football stadium in Molde.

The 1,166 km (725 mi) pipeline runs across the North Sea from Nyhamna to the Easington Gas Terminal near the mouth of the Humber estuary on the UK’s east coast.

Instead, 24 subsea wellheads in four seabed templates on the ocean floor are connected directly by two 30 inches (762 mm) pipelines to an onshore process terminal at Nyhamna.

Extreme natural conditions at the site (subzero temperatures part of the year, stormy seas, strong underwater currents, uneven seabed) put great demands on the technology used in the project.