Equinor has extended a partial outage at Norway's Troll natural gas field until May 31 due to a compressor failure, the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday…
Equinor has extended a partial outage at Norway's Troll natural gas field until May 31 due to a compressor failure, the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday, pushing European gas prices higher.
Norway in 2022 overtook Russia as Europe's biggest supplier of natural gas when Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine upended decades-long energy ties.
Troll, Europe's biggest natural gas field, has seen outages of various scope since May 21 when an annual one-day stop-start test was performed.
"Following a test, we identified a need for corrective maintenance on Troll A on Friday," a spokesperson for field operator Equinor said in a statement, referring to the name of one of the field's offshore platforms.
Gas production will be reduced by 34.6 million cubic metres per day (mcm/d) from Monday, May 26 to Friday, May 30 at 0400 GMT, leaving in place a remaining output capacity of 90 mcm/d, the regulatory filing posted on the Gassco website showed.
A separate filing showed that an outage of 16.2 mcm/d was planned from May 30 to May 31, ending at 0400 GMT on Saturday.
About Troll Gas
Containing about 40 percent of total gas reserves on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS)
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