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Gassco data showed on Monday that the unplanned shutdown event ended on Sunday.
A spokeswoman for Equinor also confirmed the restart of the LNG export facility.
The Gassco data also shows that Equnor plans to conduct maintenance at the facility from April 22 until July 10.
Equinor decided to stop production on January 2 for 10 days due to an issue on a compressor which reinjects CO2 to the field.
The firm then extended the shutdown of the LNG export plant by 10 more days until January 20 due to additional repair work.
The LNG carriers Arctic Lady and Arctic Voyager were on Friday anchored near the LNG export plant on the island of Melkoya, their AIS data provided by VesselsValue shows.
Equinor’s Hammerfest LNG plant mainly supplies European countries with LNG.
According to Equinor, its production capacity of around 6.5 bcm of gas per year is enough to supply 6.5 million households with light and heat.
The LNG terminal liquefies natural gas coming from the Snohvit field in the Barents Sea.
Gas reaches Hammerfest LNG via a 160-kilometer gas pipeline which became operational in the autumn of 2007.
Equinor is the operator of both the Snohvit field and Hammerfest LNG with a 36.8 percent stake.
Other license owners of Snohvit are Petoro (30 percent), TotalEnergies EP Norge (18.4 percent), Neptune Energy Norge (12 percent), and Wintershall Dea Norge (2.81 percent).
In addition, the partners are currently working on upgrading the facility.
The Snohvit Future project will extend the productive life of Hammerfest LNG past 2030, and includes onshore compression and electrification of Hammerfest LNG.
Equinor and its partners said in December 2022 they would invest 13.2 billion Norwegian krone ($1.16 billion) to upgrade the facility.
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