Eight million meals and two million bed-nights. That is just part of ISS’ deliveries to the five-year project to build a large facility in Hammerfest in Northern Norway, which for the next estimated 30 years will liquefy and distribute natural gas around the world.
ISS Norway has been a main supplier to the construction of Snow White, which is the name of the Norwegian oil and gas company, Statoil’s, new facility for liquefying natural gas from gas fields in the Barents Sea.
Around 330 ISS employees have provided four meals a day, totalling 8 million meals, as well as housing, totalling 2 million bed-nights, to the 3000 workers on site. Besides meals and housing ISS has been responsible for cleaning, office support, project administration, transport and maintenance. The work totals more than EUR 100 million.
“It has been a major project for ISS. Only few people know what it takes to handle a contract this large. Employees from all over the world have been busy servicing the workers on site. While Statoil has focused on finishing the facility ISS has focused on all the day-to-day details,” says Jan Erik Sletten Hansen, who is head of the ISS subsidiary ServieringPartner, who provided most of the services in Hammerfest.
Snow White will be the production site and hub for export of liquefied natural gas to primarily the US and Europe from natural gas fields in the sea off the northern coast of Norway. It is the first of its kind in Europe.