Equinor, the Norwegian oil and gas company, is boosting the feed-gas supplies from another field in the Barents Sea to produce more LNG from the Hammerfest plant on Melkøya Island in northern Norway.
The Lithuanian LNG import terminal at the Baltic port of Klaipeda handled 49 LNG cargoes in the gas year from October 2020 until the start of June 2021 and hopes to better this performance through the rest of the year.
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.
Southern LNG Company, the operator of the Elba Island LNG export plant near Savannah in Georgia and a subsidiary of pipeline giant Kinder Morgan, is to host a full inspection of the facility by regulators just after the first anniversary of a fire at the new plant that delayed completion.