Norway Gas Plant Back In Operation

Norway's top natural gas processing plant is expected to be back in full operation after its restart at the end of last week was unexpectedly delayed, gas system operator Gassco said.

The Kollsnes plant on Norway's west coast was shut on Friday for maintenance but its restart took longer than expected because of low gas flows from the massive Troll field in the North Sea.

Gas deliveries to the Kollsnes plant were still too low to declare the plant was back in operation, Gassco said in a market statement.

Norway supplies about a fifth of the European Union's gas needs and Kollsnes, with its 145 million cubic metre per day capacity is its biggest processing unit. Troll alone accounted for 30%of Norway's gas production last year.