Norway’s oil and gas safety body said today it had given Shell permission to expand its gas plant at Nyhamna.
The facility has been processing gas from the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea since 2003.
It will now be expanded to take in gas from the Polarled pipeline, which connects the Aasta Hansteen field to the Norwegian gas transport system.
Shell wants to raise its production capacity to 84million standard cubic metres of gas per day from 70million.