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UK gas supplies tight on low Norwegian flow
Thursday, March 11, 2010
LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) - UK gas supplies remained tight early on Thursday after a steep drop in flows from Norway on Wednesday, despite a recovery in imports from the Netherlands overnight, according to data from National Grid.
Supplies of Norwegian gas into Britain via the Langeled pipeline dropped from over 60 million cubic metres to around 40 mcm on Wednesday afternoon, after a power supply failure to the huge field.
National Grid data showed a small improvement in supplies since Wednesday evening and a spokesman for field operator Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) could not give an immediate update on the status of one of the North Sea's biggest gas fields on Thursday morning.
Power supply to the field has been restored, he said, but it was unclear how much gas the field was producing.
BBL BACK
An electrical fault at Britain's Bacton import terminal also stopped gas from flowing through the BBL pipeline from the Netherlands on Wednesday but flows into southern England through it returned to normal later that day, according National Grid.
The UK gas network was about 20 mcm short of gas on Thursday morning, with flows expected to fall well short of expected demand of around 373 mcm.
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