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Equinor’s Hammerfest LNG plant offline due to compressor failure

By LNG Prime Staff
Equinor's Hammerfest LNG plant offline due to compressor failure
Hammerfest LNG (Image: Equinor)

Equinor’s 4.3 mtpa Hammerfest LNG export plant in Norway is expected to be offline until May 19 due to a compressor failure, according to data by Gassco.

Gassco said in a regulatory message that the event has started on May 4 and is expected to last until May 19.

It said that all of the 18.4 mcm/day (6.5 bcm/year) capacity will not be available during the period.

LNG Prime contacted Equinor to comment on the matter. We did not receive a reply by the time this article was published.

Equinor started again shipping LNG from the Hammerfest terminal in June last year since a fire that broke out at the facility in September 2020.

Hammerfest LNG liquefies natural gas coming from the Snohvit field in the Barents Sea.

Gas reaches Hammerfest LNG via a 160-kilometer gas pipeline which became operational in the autumn of 2007.

The firm and its partners are also upgrading the plant.

Equinor is the operator of both the Snohvit field and Hammerfest LNG with a 36.8 percent stake.

Other license owners of Snohvit are Petoro (30 percent), TotalEnergies EP Norge (18.4 percent), Neptune Energy Norge (12 percent), and Wintershall Dea Norge (2.81 percent).

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