{"id":290722,"date":"2025-08-19T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/equinor-halts-production-at-its-hammerfest-lng-plant-due-to-power-failure\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:15:05","slug":"equinor-halts-production-at-its-hammerfest-lng-plant-due-to-power-failure","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/equinor-halts-production-at-its-hammerfest-lng-plant-due-to-power-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Equinor halts production at its Hammerfest LNG plant due to power failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Norwegian state-owned Equinor <strong>has temporarily suspended production at its<\/strong> <strong>liquefied natural<\/strong> <strong>gas<\/strong> (LNG) <strong>plant<\/strong> in Hammerfest, Norway. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/gas-leak-evacuation-of-an-lng-plant\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/fuga-de-gas-evacuacion-de-una-planta-de-gnl\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hammerfest<\/a><\/strong>also known as Melkoeya LNG, following a technical incident over the weekend. The cause was an overheating in one of the system&#8217;s electrical transformers, which forced an unplanned shutdown. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Possible reactivation of the LNG plant in Hammerfest<\/h2>\n\n<p>According to information released by Equinor through Gassco&#8217;s notification system, the outage began on Saturday afternoon and it was expected that operations could resume on Monday at 21:00 GMT. This plant accounts for <strong>approximately 5% of total<\/strong> <strong>Norwegian<\/strong> <strong>gas exports<\/strong>, making it a strategic part of the European energy supply. <\/p>\n\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.equinor.com\/energy\/snohvit\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.equinor.com\/energy\/snohvit\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hammerfest<\/a><\/strong>located in the Norwegian Arctic, has an estimated annual capacity of 6.5 billion cubic meters of gas, enough to supply some 6.5 million homes in Europe on a daily basis. Just a few weeks ago, on August 4, it had completed an extensive maintenance process that lasted 15 weeks. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Risks and European energy context<\/h2>\n\n<p>This technical outage highlights the vulnerability of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/articulo\/reliability-in-the-energy-transition-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/articulo\/confiabilidad-en-la-transicion-energetica\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vulnerability of key energy infrastructures to unforeseen<\/a><\/strong> This technical outage highlights the vulnerability of key energy infrastructures to unforeseen events, especially in a context where Europe is seeking to diversify its supply sources in the wake of recent geopolitical imbalances.<\/p>\n\n<p>So far, no major damage or environmental impacts have been reported. The company indicated that it is working with its technical teams to ensure that the plant returns to safe and stable operation. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oedigital.com\/news\/529049-norway-s-hammerfest-lng-shuts-down\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.oedigital.com\/news\/529049-norway-s-hammerfest-lng-shuts-down\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Offshore Engineer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Photo: Equinor<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plant has the capacity to supply 6.5 million European households daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9014,"featured_media":289876,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13026,13044],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-290722","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-energy","categoria_noticias-new-energies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/290722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/290722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=290722"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=290722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}