據(jù)油價網(wǎng)5月27日報(bào)道，挪威國家石油公司（Equinor）周五報(bào)告稱，該公司位于挪威的Hammerfest液化天然氣裝置在2020年9月的一場火災(zāi)導(dǎo)致停產(chǎn)后重新啟動。

Equinor表示，該裝置每年能夠生產(chǎn)465萬噸液化天然氣，即每天1800萬立方米天然氣，將有助于歐盟減少對進(jìn)口天然氣的依賴。

它是歐洲唯一的大型液化天然氣工廠。

LNG裝置的修復(fù)工作已經(jīng)完成，目前正在冷卻過程中。Equinor沒有提供液化天然氣何時進(jìn)入儲罐的時間表。

在重啟之前，挪威已經(jīng)用盡了現(xiàn)有的液化天然氣產(chǎn)能，并一直在出口盡可能多的天然氣。Hammerfest的重啟應(yīng)該有助于挪威增加這些出口。

去年，挪威提供了歐盟23.6%的天然氣需求。Hammerfest工廠占挪威總天然氣出口能力的 5%。

Hammerfest液化天然氣工廠原定于去年重啟，但由于故障、測試和流行病而一再推遲。

來自巴倫支海Snow White油田的天然氣供應(yīng)給Hammerfest液化天然氣廠，也因關(guān)閉而停產(chǎn)。

盡管由于火災(zāi)造成了中斷，挪威統(tǒng)計(jì)局估計(jì)，挪威3月份出口的天然氣價值在2022年3月達(dá)到了創(chuàng)紀(jì)錄的117億歐元，比2021年3月增長了500%。

黎泱 編譯自 油價網(wǎng)

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.