“We deliver gas as much as possible”

Düsseldorf Norwegian Raw Materials Group equinox According to its own statements, it is currently delivering as much gas to Europe as the pipeline allows. Anders Opedel, the CEO of the state-owned company, explained this in an interview with Handelsblatt: “We are currently exporting as much gas as we can to continental Europe and Great Britain, with most of the gas flowing into Germany.”

Further gas delivery from Norway is therefore likely when LNG terminals are planned at the end of the year in Wilhelmshaven, Brunsbüttel. and possibly lubemin go into operation. “Once Germany has completed its LNG terminals, additional liquefied natural gas can reach Germany from our facility near Hammerfest,” Opedl says.

Overall, the LNG plant at Hammerfest has a capacity of six to seven billion cubic metres.

Norway is Germany’s second largest gas supplier after Russia. According to a publication by the oil company, the state supplied about 31 billion cubic meters in 2020 bp For the Federal Republic. According to this 56 billion cubic meters came from Russia in the same year.