Norway gas flows up as Troll’s maintenance end, partly offset by Kollsnes

Norwegian gas exports to Europe rose on Friday morning after Troll, the country’s biggest gas field, returned to full production capacity after maintenance, outweighing an unplanned outage at the Kollsnes gas processing plant.

Total pipeline gas supplies to Europe were running at a rate of 258 million cubic metres per day (mcm/day) by around 0700 GMT, up 7 mcm from the previous day.

Gassco said maintenance at Troll ended on Friday, increasing production capacity by 27 mcm/day.

However, a compressor failure reduced output from the Kollsnes gas plant by 20 mcm/day.

The Kollsnes outage is expected to last for three days, Gassco said.

Troll, which has a production capacity of around 120 mcm/day, delivers gas to Kollsnes for export to Europe.