Norway’s Equinor plans to restart production at its Arctic liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Hammerfest on June 8 after it was shut down on May 31 due to a gas leak, the company said in a market message on Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The facility will be unavailable until 2100 GMT on June 8, according to a message posted via the transparency page of Norwegian gas infrastructure operator Gassco. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Equinor halted production after it detected a gas leak on a cooling circuit valve. The leak had been plugged late on Wednesday. Europe’s only large-scale LNG plant, at Melkoeya island just outside the Arctic town of Hammerfest, can process 18.4 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas per day when fully operational, just over 5% of Norway’s gas export capacity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At Melkoeya, gas is piped in from the offshore Snoehvit field, 160 km (100 miles) away in the Barents Sea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Hammerfest LNG partnership includes Equinor, Petoro, TotalEnergies, Neptune Energy, and Wintershall Dea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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