欧洲最大的液化天然气装置重启

据油价网5月27日报道，挪威国家石油公司（Equinor）周五报告称，该公司位于挪威的Hammerfest液化天然气装置在2020年9月的一场火灾导致停产后重新启动。

Equinor表示，该装置每年能够生产465万吨液化天然气，即每天1800万立方米天然气，将有助于欧盟减少对进口天然气的依赖。

它是欧洲唯一的大型液化天然气工厂。

LNG装置的修复工作已经完成，目前正在冷却过程中。Equinor没有提供液化天然气何时进入储罐的时间表。

在重启之前，挪威已经用尽了现有的液化天然气产能，并一直在出口尽可能多的天然气。Hammerfest的重启应该有助于挪威增加这些出口。

去年，挪威提供了欧盟23.6%的天然气需求。Hammerfest工厂占挪威总天然气出口能力的 5%。

Hammerfest液化天然气工厂原定于去年重启，但由于故障、测试和流行病而一再推迟。

来自巴伦支海Snow White油田的天然气供应给Hammerfest液化天然气厂，也因关闭而停产。

尽管由于火灾造成了中断，挪威统计局估计，挪威3月份出口的天然气价值在2022年3月达到了创纪录的117亿欧元，比2021年3月增长了500%。

黎泱 编译自 油价网

原文如下：

Europe's Largest LNG Unit Restarts

Equinor's Hammerfest LNG unit in Norway has been restarted after a September 2020 fire took it offline, the company reported on Friday.

The unit is capable of producing 4.65 million tonnes of LNG per year, Equinor said, or 18 million cubic meters of gas per day, and will contribute to the EU's quest to decrease its reliance on the imported gas.

It is Europe's only large-scale LNG plant.

The repair work on the LNG unit has been completed, and it is in the middle of the cool-down process now. Equinor did not provide a timeframe for when the LNG would get on the tanks.

Leading up to the restart, Norway has been maxed out its existing LNG capacity and has been exporting as much as it is able to. Hammerfest's restart should help Norway to boost those exports.

Last year, Norway provided 23.6 percent of the EU's natural gas needs. The Hammerfest plant accounts for 5 percent of Norway's total gas export capacity.

The Hammerfest LNG plant on this Island was supposed to restart last year, but has been pushed back repeatedly due to faults, tests, and the pandemic.

Gas from the offshore Snow White field in the Barents Sea, which feeds the Hammerfest LNG plant, has also been offline due to the closure.

Despite the outage due to the fire, Statistics Norway estimates the value of nat gas exported by Norway in March reached a record high in March 2022 of 11.7 billion euro—a 500% increase from March 2021.