Production start-up at Hammerfest LNG
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After extensive repairs and improvement work, Hammerfest LNG is back in production after the fire in September 2020. The first liquified natural gas (LNG) is now on tank at Melkøya.
Facts
- Hammerfest LNG (HLNG), Norway’s and Europe’s first large-scale liquified natural gas (LNG) plant, has been online since 2007.
- The plant at Melkøya outside Hammerfest receives gas through a 143-kilometre pipeline from the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea.
- At the plant condensate, water and CO2 are separated from the well stream before the natural gas is cooled down to a liquid state and stored in dedicated tanks. Cooling down the gas to -163 degrees reduces its volume 620 times.
- The gas is then exported in purpose-built LNG tankers. CO2 is injected and stored in a geological formation below the Snøhvit reservoir.
- Around 750,000 tonnes of CO2 are removed each year from the well stream and brought back to a suitable reservoir on the Snøhvit field.
- Partners:
- Equinor Energy AS (operator) 36.79%
- Petoro AS 30.00%
- TotalEnergies EP Norge AS 18.40%
- Neptune Energy Norge AS 12.00%
- Wintershall Dea Norge AS 2.81%
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