On Monday, a serious accident occurred on the Norwegian shelf at the Sleipner gas project, which covers several condensate gas fields.
The price of natural gas returned to growth again on news of the accident at the Sleipner gas field in Norway. Interfax reported this on Wednesday, July 13th.
Thus, the closest – August – TTF futures on the ICE Futures exchange rose to $ 1,909 per thousand cubic meters after $ 1,802 at Tuesday’s close.
Equinor registered an offshore gas leak on July 11 in an isolated area associated with the turbine on the Sleipner A platform (where drilling and processing take place). In the process of resuming production and depressing late Monday night, another gas leak occurred at the Sleipner R riser platform (gas and condensate export riser platform). According to the report, the leaks have been removed and some field facilities have been closed.
The Sleipner project covers the gas condensate fields of Sleipner Ost, Gungne and Sleipner Vest. The units also receive hydrocarbons from the Sigyn, Volve, Gudrun and Gina Krog fields.
National gas transmission operator Gassco raised its estimate of the lack of production capacity of the Sleipner field (the total technical capacity of 16.9 million cubic meters per day) until the morning of July 15 (previous estimates were covers first July 13, then July 14).
Also, all the capacity of the Nyhamna gas processing plant – 79.8 million cubic meters – has been declared unavailable. m. The current deadline for notification of unavailability is until the morning of July 14th. Earlier reports advised about the partial retirement of this gas processing facility.
It will be recalled that on July 11, the price of gas in Europe fell sharply to $ 1,639.5 per 1,000 cubic meters. This happened despite the fact that Russia stopped supplies through the Nord Stream gas pipeline for ten days – from July 11 to July 21 – due to maintenance.
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Source: korrespondent
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