Production resumed on Nov. 7 at the Snøhvit plant outside Hammerfest in northern Norway after a three-month planned shutdown for upgrading and maintenance.
Running-in this Hammerfest LNG facility on Melkøya to maximum capacity was due to take about 10 days, following extensive refurbishment and modification of the plant.
The work aimed to make the gas processing and liquefaction plant more robust and to ensure that it can maintain a high level of production in the future, says a Statoil news release.
As early as the morning of Nov. 8, the running-in process was at the point where it could be determined that the replaced and upgraded cooling system components functioned as expected.
However, a technical fault arose that same afternoon in one of the plants utilities. It was decided to halt the running-in temporarily and to shut down the plant for repairs.
The fault is expected to be fixed within a few days, and the resumption of gas liquefaction will continue as planned, Statoil says.
Among the big jobs carried out during the plant's closure was the replacement of 15 heat exchangers, which form the core of the liquefaction process for the Snøhvit gas.
A total of 1,550 workers were at the plant during the shutdown.
LNG plant starts back up
Production resumed on Nov. 7 at the Snøhvit liquid natural gas plant outside Hammerfest in northern Norway after a three-month planned shutdown for upgrading and maintenance
Published: 09.11.2009 11:56
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