EU Gas Maintenance: Norwegian Gas Flows Still Below Average

Norwegian natural gas flows to Europe were nominated today at 289mcm/d, still below the five-year average for this time of the year amid a prolonged maintenance period according to Gassco.

• Five-year average flows during this time of year are above 300mcm/d. Flows have lagged the 2018-2022 average since 24 August.
• Unavailable supplies from Norwegian gas facilities and fields stood today at 66.9mcm/d and will further ease back to 48.3mcm/d on Tuesday and to 44mcm/d on Wednesday.
• The Dvalin field will be offline in an unplanned outage until 10 October amid compressor failure.
• The unplanned outage at the 10mcm/d Kvitebjorn field has been extended by seven days until 16 Oct. Smaller additional works are scheduled later in the month.
• The 125mcm/d Troll field has still not fully returned from maintenance. The facility was initially scheduled to fully return in early-Sept. 10mcm/d will be unavailable on 10-11 Oct, 19mcm/d on 11-12 Oct, 10mcm/d on 12-16 Oct and 6mcm/d on 29-30 Oct.
• The maintenance at the Ormen Lange field has been extended by three days until 10 October, affecting 24.5mcm/d. Additional works have been scheduled for 10-11 Oct with 13.4mcm/d of unavailable capacity.
• Maintenance at Oseberg is scheduled to reduce availability by 5.5mcm/d until 9 Nov. Additional maintenance is scheduled to limit output by 25.5mcm/d on 19-20 Oct and 10.5mcm/d on 20 Oct until 1 Nov.
• The ongoing repairs at the Kollsnes processing plant have been extended by four days until 20 Oct, with supplies reduced by 11mcm/d.
• In the UK, unavailability at the St. Fergus terminal is as followed during annual maintenance: 30.8mcm/d until 11 Oct, 19.8mcm/d on 11-16 Oct, 10mcm/d on 1ct until 9 Nov, 15.8mcm on 20 Oct until 1 Nov.
• In France, Elengy’s Montoir de Bretagne will undergo maintenance and has no nominations scheduled from 10-20 October. The Fos Tonkin terminal is also scheduled to undergo maintenance on 14-22 October, Elengy data show.