May 6 (LNGJ) - Equinor of Norway will close Europe’s only baseload LNG export plant at Hammerfest from mid-May for two weeks of scheduled maintenance. Equinor said the liquefaction plant shut-down would reduce natural gas production by 18 million cubic metres per day from the Snohvit feed-gas field.
The single-Train Hammerfest plant supplies cargoes to LNG import terminals such as those in Spain and in northwest Europe from the Netherlands to Lithuania. Equinor has 37 percent of the Snohvit field and the LNG plant and the other partners include French major Total and Germany’s Wintershall Dea.
