A total of 102.5 billion standard cubic metres of gas was transported from the Norwegian continental shelf within Gassco’s operatorship during 2013.
Carried to receiving terminals in Germany, Belgium, France and the UK, this volume represented a decline of 4.9 billion scm from the year before.
“Norway’s gas exports depend on many elements in an interplay between production, transport capacity, resource availability, the market and so forth,” says Gassco chief executive Brian Bjordal.
“This interaction creates natural variations, and the reduction in last year’s deliveries accordingly does not represent a trend.
“Norwegian gas exports in any event represent a substantial contribution to energy supplies in major European countries, and remain stable at a high level.”
Gassco’s goal is to operate the integrated transport system for Norwegian gas with the highest possible regularity, and this averaged 99.68 per cent in 2013 compared with 99.69 per cent the year before.
Deliveries of natural gas liquids (NGL) and condensate from the west Norwegian process plants at Kårstø and Kollsnes (via Vestprosess) came to 7 285 460 tonnes, as against 7 960 847 tonnes in 2012.
[mappress] LNG World News Staff, January 10, 2014; Image: Gassco