Norway’s Hammerfest LNG plant faces a further delay to restarting production after a fire in 2020, operator Equinor (EQNR.OL) said on Monday, delivering a fresh blow to hopes of securing more gas for Europe to help reduce surging prices. The plant, operated by Equinor, is now expected to resume output on May 17, more than six weeks later than the previous goal of restarting on March 31. “We work systematically to deliver on the plan we established, but challenges related to COVID-19 restrictions require that we need more time to prepare the plant for safe and stable start-up and operations,” Equinor senior vice president Grete Haaland said in a statement. Europe’s only large-scale LNG plant, at Melkoeya island just outside the Arctic town of Hammerfest, can process […]