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An Equinor spokeswoman confirmed to LNG Prime on Monday that “short maintenance is planned at HLNG.”
“This is a regular maintenance stop,” she said.
Gassco data shows that Equinor started the maintenance on Monday and expects to complete it by Thursday.
The 4.3 mtpa Hammerfest LNG plant liquefies natural gas coming from the Snohvit field in the Barents Sea.
The LNG plant mainly supplies European countries with LNG.
According to Equinor, its production capacity of around 6.5 bcm of gas per year is enough to supply 6.5 million households with light and heat.
Gas reaches Hammerfest LNG via a 160-kilometer gas pipeline which became operational in the autumn of 2007.
Equinor is the operator of both the Snohvit field and Hammerfest LNG with a 36.8 percent stake.
Other license owners of Snohvit are Petoro (30 percent), TotalEnergies EP Norge (18.4 percent), Var (12 percent), and Harbour Energy Norge (2.81 percent).
In December 2025, Equinor announced that the Snohvit Future project, which involves upgrading the Hammerfest LNG export facility, had been delayed by one year and its costs had increased approximately 4 billion Norwegian krone ($423 million) since 2024.
The project includes onshore compression and electrification of the Hammerfest LNG terminal.
Norway’s Var Energy, a unit of Italy’s Eni, and Equinor also plan to send natural gas from the Goliat gas export project in the Barents to Equinor’s Hammerfest LNG export facility for liquefaction.
