EU Gas Maintenance: Norwegian Maintenance Season to Conclude

Norwegian natural gas outages are scheduled to rise on Wednesday before easing back as maintenance season is concluding, Gassco remit data showed.

• Norwegian gas pipeline flows were nominated at 266.7mcm/d today. Unavailability is scheduled at 96.9mcm/d on Wednesday, before easing back to 58.4mcm/d on Thursday.
• The 125mcm/d Troll field has still not fully returned from maintenance. Additional works, limiting supply by 20mcm/d, have been scheduled for 3-4 Oct and for 4-5 Oct with 35mcm/d unavailable. Supply will be limited by 10mcm/d on 19 Sept to 9 Oct, by 29mcm/d on 9 Oct until 12 Oct, by 15mcm/d on 12-16 Oct and by 6mcm/d on 22-23 Oct.
• The Karsto processing facility has additional works planned on 29 Sept until 5 Oct, limiting supply by 9.6mcm/d.
• Maintenance at the Skarv field has been extended by two days until 5 Oct, limiting full supply of 22.1mcm/d. Supply will be cut by 17.4mcm/d on 5-6 Oct, by 12.4mcm/d on 6-7 Oct, by 9.4mcm/d on 7-8 Oct and by 3.4mcm/d on 8-9 Oct.
• The maintenance at the Ormen Lange field will last until 7 Oct, affecting 24.5mcm/d.
• The ongoing repairs at the Kollsnes processing plant will reduce supplies by 11mcm/d until 16 Oct.
• In the UK, unavailability at the St. Fergus terminal is as followed during annual maintenance:
• 30.8mcm/d until 4 Oct, 30.8mcm/d on 4-6 Oct, 10.8mcm/d on 4 Oct-9 Nov and 20 Oct-1 Nov.
• The Barrow North terminal will have limited availability until 8 Oct.
• In Germany, the Emden gas terminal started today.
• The Dutch Gate LNG terminal will have sendout cuts on 5 Oct.