Equinor’s Hammerfest LNG plant, in Norway, has suffered an outage due to a compressor failure, halting all output for one week. This was reported by a regulatory statement on the Gassco website.
The Hammerfest plant, also known as Melkoeya LNG, has the capacity to deliver about 6.5 billion m3 of gas per year, enough to supply about 6.5 million European homes, and accounts for roughly 5% of all Norwegian gas exports.
Production is expected to resume late on January 9, according to the regulatory statement.
The plant at Melkoeya receives gas from the Snoehvit field in the Barents Sea, some 143 km (89 miles) away from shore. Its owners are Equinor, Petoro, TotalEnergies, Vaar Energi and Harbour Energy.
