Statoil on course with Snohvit LNG

All sysytems go: at Hammerfest

Oyvind Hagen

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Beate Schjolberg

 19 April 2010 10:50 GMT

Statoil's Hammerfest liquefied natural gas plant at Melkoya in northern Norway is into its fourth month of steady operations after a major overhaul late last year.



More than two years of technical problems and repairs look set end with a stoppage planned for this summer to replace the last seawater exchanger. At full capacity, the plant can produce about 4.3 million tonnes of LNG a year from the Snohvit field, corresponding to one cargo every five or six days.

The facility was Statoil's first LNG project, the world's first built in the Arctic, and the first using new liquefaction technology developed by Statoil and German supplier Linde.

The plant's first year after coming on stream in 2007…

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