Norway’s gas exports to Europe fell sharply on Monday as a shutdown of the offshore Sleipner hub also stopped operation at the Nyhamna onshore processing plant, pipeline operator Gassco said.

“There was an incident at the Sleipner Riser platform on Sunday, where we were told they are shutting down,” the head of pipeline system operations at Gassco, Alfred Hansen, told Reuters.

Sleipner Riser is a connection point for the Langeled North and Langeled South pipelines connecting the Nyhamna plant on Norway’s west coast with the Easington terminal in Britain.

Both terminals were shut on Monday, transparency data showed, with Norwegian gas supply nominations falling to 251 million cubic metres (mcm) per day on Monday, from 300 mcm/day nominated on Friday, according to Gassco data.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Nora Buli, editing by Terje Solsvik)