May 5 (LNGJ) - Hammerfest LNG, the Equinor-operated export facility in northern Norway that supplies European import terminals, has suffered a compressor failure and is expected to be off stream until May 19, according to the Norwegian gas system operator Gassco.
The facility on Melkøya island produces 4.65 million tonnes per annum of LNG from a single liquefaction Train as well as 340,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas and 730,000 tonnes of condensate. The feed gas comes from the Snøhvit field in the southern part of the Barents Sea. The licence owners of the Snøhvit field are operator Equinor along with Norway’s Petoro, France’s TotalEnergies, Neptune Energy of the UK and Germany’s Wintershall Dea.
