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Norway exported more than 120 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas in 2022, mainly via pipelines, making it Europe’s largest gas supplier following a drop in Russian flows last year.<\/p>\n
The Nordic country exports its gas via a network of subsea pipelines to consumers, such as Britain and Germany. In addition, it ships liquefied natural gas (LNG).<\/p>\n
Here is a look at Norway’s export routes.<\/p>\n
How many pipelines are there?<\/strong> In addition, gas produced from the Alvheim and Martin Linge fields is exported to Britain via pipelines managed by other operators.<\/p>\n The SAGE pipeline, which ships gas from Alvheim, is operated by Ancala Midstream. while FUKA pipeline, which ships gas from Martin Linge, is operated by North Sea Midstream Partners.<\/p>\n Who receives Norwegian gas?<\/strong> The Easington terminal on the east coast of England, receives gas through the Langeled pipeline, while the St Fergus terminal in Scotland connects to the Flags and the Vesterled pipelines.<\/p>\n Germany’s terminals in Dornum and Emden, located along the North Sea coast close to the Dutch border, connect to the Europipe I and II, and the Norpipe pipelines respectively.<\/p>\n In Belgium, a terminal at the port of Zeebrugge connects to the Zeepipe pipeline, while gas through the Franpipe pipeline is received at a terminal in Dunkerque, France.<\/p>\n Since 2022, the Nybro terminal on the Danish west coast receives Norwegian gas through the Baltic Pipe, which crosses Denmark before continuing subsea into Poland.<\/p>\n Does Norway export LNG?<\/strong> It can deliver 6.5 billion cubic metres of LNG per year, accounting for about 5% of Norwegian gas exports.<\/p>\n In 2022, exports from the terminal were only 3.7 bcm because the plant was offline until the end of May following a fire in September 2020.<\/p>\n Although LNG tankers can extend the reach of Norwegian gas beyond Europe, almost all of the exports went to European destinations in 2022.<\/p>\n Who produces gas in Norway?<\/strong> However, the biggest player is Equinor, majority-owned by the Norwegian state. It produced more than 45 billion cubic metres of natural gas, roughly 36% of total Norwegian production of 123.8 bcm in 2022.<\/p>\n Equinor also sells gas on behalf of Petoro, a fully state-owned company that holds stakes in offshore fields but does not operate any assets itself<\/p>\n (Reuters – Reporting by Nora Buli and Nerijus Adomaitis, editing by Gwladys Fouche and Barbara Lewis)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Norway exported more than 120 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas in 2022, mainly via pipelines, making it Europe’s largest gas supplier following a drop in Russian flows last year. The Nordic country exports its gas via a network of subsea pipelines to consumers, such as Britain and Germany. In addition, it ships liquefied natural …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/33051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Norway last year piped 116.9 bcm of gas to the European Union and Britain via a pipeline system of more than 8,800 kilometres (5,470 miles), consisting of 22 individual pipelines operated by Gassco.<\/p>\n
The pipelines connect to seven receiving terminals: Britain and Germany each have two, and Belgium, Denmark and France all have one.<\/p>\n
Norway also operates one liquefaction terminal in the Arctic town of Hammerfest, also known as Melkoeya.<\/p>\n
The country has attracted international companies, including Wintershall Dea, TotalEnergies, ConocoPhillips and Shell.<\/p>\n