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Norway's Hammerfest LNG restarts after maintenance
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on August 4, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on August 4, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Equinor's Hammerfest LNG terminal resumes operations after extended maintenance, affecting European gas supply. It accounts for 5% of Norway's exports.
OSLO (Reuters) -Norway's Equinor restarted its Hammerfest LNG terminal on Sunday, Europe's largest natural gas export facility, after more than three months of maintenance, a company spokesperson said on Monday.
The Hammerfest plant in Arctic Norway, also known as Melkoeya LNG, had been offline since April 22.
The facility had initially been scheduled to return to operation on July 19, but this was later postponed twice.
Melkoeya LNG has the capacity to deliver about 6.5 billion cubic metres of gas per year, enough to supply about 6.5 million European homes per day, and accounts for roughly 5% of all Norwegian gas exports.
The plant at Melkoeya island receives gas from the Snoehvit field in the Barents Sea, some 143 km (89 miles) offshore. Its owners are Equinor, Petoro, TotalEnergies , Vaar Energi and Harbour Energy.
(Reporting by Nora Buli, editing by Terje Solsvik)
The Hammerfest LNG terminal restarted operations on Sunday after more than three months of maintenance.
The Hammerfest LNG facility has the capacity to deliver about 6.5 billion cubic metres of gas per year.
The facility's return to operation was initially scheduled for July 19 but was postponed twice.
The Hammerfest LNG plant is owned by Equinor, Petoro, TotalEnergies, Vaar Energi, and Harbour Energy.
The plant receives gas from the Snoehvit field located in the Barents Sea, approximately 143 km offshore.
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