Equinor’s Hammerfest LNG unit in Norway has been restarted after a September 2020 fire took it offline, the company reported on Friday. The unit is capable of producing 4.65 million tonnes of LNG per year, Equinor said, or 18 million cubic meters of gas per day, and will contribute to the EU’s quest to decrease its reliance on Russian gas. It is Europe’s only large-scale LNG plant. The repair work on the LNG unit has been completed, and it is in the middle of the cool-down process now. Equinor did not provide a timeframe for when the LNG would get on the tanks. Leading up to the restart, Norway has been maxed out its existing LNG capacity and has been exporting as much as it is able to. Hammerfest’s restart should help Norway to boost those exports. Last year, Norway provided 23.6 percent of the EU’s natural gas needs, […]