StatoilHydro shuts in Snohvit LNG
Norway's StatoilHydro today began a planned maintenance shutdown of the
Snohvit liquefied natural gas and plans to restart the plant in early July.
"We started with the planned shutdown last night," Snohvit spokesman Sverre
Kojedal told Reuters.
"Start-up is expected in the first weeks of July after numerous inspection,
maintenance and minor modification measures aimed to make the plant more
robust...and improve capacity."
The $10 billion Snohvit project is the first offshore development in the
Barents Sea and Europe's first LNG export facility. It has been producing at
60% capacity due to technical problems since last year's start up.
09 May 2008 13:45 GMT
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09 May 2008 13:45 GMT
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