It had travelled by 115 kilometer pipeline for 4 days at depths as low as 360 meters with a speed of 1 km/h.

The terminal celebrated its 20-year anniversary in 2008[4] The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy approved an upgrade to the facility in March 1998.

[2] The Sture terminal has the same ownership shares as in Oseberg Transport System (OTS): The exception is the LPG export facilities which are a property of Norsk Hydro (the refrigerated LPG storage and transfer system to ships) and Vestprosess DA (export facility to Vestprosess).

It also has five rock caverns for crude oil storage with a total capacity of 6.3 million barrels.

Separate unit for recovering of volatile organic compounds (VOC), environmentally important during loading of tankers is also in operation.