Nov 4 (LNGJ) - The Baltic Pipe natural gas pipeline link between Norway and Poland was receiving steady flows of gas via the expanded Nybro gas terminal in Western Jutland in Denmark. The Danish Nybro terminal was receiving 5.8 million cubic metres of gas flows on November 4, according to data from Gassco, the Norwegian state-owned pipelines and terminals operator.
The Norwegian gas can now be sent to Poland by Denmark’s gas network operator Energinet after the Nybro terminal start-up. The gas in the terminal is supplied from the Norwegian gas pipeline Europipe II in the North Sea. The gas is cleaned and the gas pressure is reduced at the Nybro terminal for onward transportation.
Equinor, the Norwegian major and owner of Western Europe’s only baseload liquefaction plant at Hammerfest in Northern Norway, more than doubled first-quarter revenues and income from soaring oil and gas prices to $36.39 billion from $17.59Bln in the same quarter of 2021 as it is set to partially replace Russia as the principal regional supplier.
Equinor’s shutdown of the Hammerfest LNG plant and maintenance at the Peregrino oil field offshore Brazil affected earnings, while higher natural gas volumes were offset by a fall in renewables because there was not enough offshore wind in the North Sea.
The Finnish gas market has opened up to competition with a wholesale market for pipeline natural gas after the transmission network was unbundled from LNG and gas firm Gasum.