North Sea gas maintenance schedule: Adds UGS Bergermeer outages

By Reuters News

Sept 28 (Reuters) - The following is a schedule of maintenance work on gas infrastructure, mainly in the North Sea.

The table is arranged by outage start date.

Volumes are in standard million cubic metres per day (mcm/d) or gigawatt-hours per day (GWh/d) unless otherwise indicated.


OPERATOR

LOCATION

OUTAGE DATES

OUTAGE DESCRIPTION/IMPACT





2021 OUTAGES








Fluxys

Interconnector

Jul 6, 0600 CET - Mar 31, 2028 0600 CET

UK import capacity reduction to 31,392,673 kWh/h; unplanned equipment maintenance





2025 OUTAGES








INEOS

FPS system

4Q (25 November)

Train 3 TAR has commenced with a current forecast duration of twelve (12) weeks





2026 OUTAGES




SSE

Aldbrough

Aug 28, 0600 BST - Nov 15, 0600 BST

70.01 GWh/d; unplanned injection unavailability

Perenco +

Bacton

Aug 31, 0600 BST - Sep 28, 0600 BST

2.4 mcm/d;Planned gas production field unavailability

Centrica UK

Rough

Sep 02, 0500 BST - Oct 01, 0500 BST

0.7 mcm/d; Planned injection unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Sep 08, 0400 BST - Oct 03, 0400 BST

185 GWh/d; Gas treatment plant unavailability

Total EP UK

Teesside CATS (Culzean)

Sep 14, 0600 BST - Oct 02, 0900 BST

16 GWh/d; planned gas production field unavailability

Gassco #

Troll

Sep 18, 0600 CET - Sep 29, 0600 CET

46.2 mcm/d; compressor failure

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Sep 22, 0400 CET - Oct 03, 0400 CET

185 GWh/d; gas treatment plant unavailability

Gassco

Oseberg

Sep 23, 0600 CET - Sep 30, 0600 CET

13.5 mcm/d; yearly maintenance

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Sep 23, 0600 CET - Oct 03, 0600 CET

94 GWh/d; Gas treatment plant unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Sep 23, 0600 CET - Oct 03, 0600 CET

14 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability

Gassco #

Skarv

Sep 24, 0600 CET - Sep 29, 0600 CET

10.6 mcm/d; yearly maintenance

Gassco

Kårstø

Sep 24, 0600 CET - Sep 29, 0600 CET

19.6 mcm/d; yearly maintenance

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Sep 25, 0400 CET - Sep 30, 0400 CET

96 GWh/d; gas treatment plant unavailability

SSE

Atwick

Sep 27, 0400 BST - Oct 02, 0500 BST

30 GWh/d; planned withdrawal unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Sep 27, 0400 BST - Oct 03, 0500 BST

185 GWh/d; yearly maintenance

Gassco

Nyhamna

Sep 28, 0600 CET - Oct 24, 0600 CET

19.8 mcm/d; yearly maintenance

Gassco

Aasta Hansteen

Sep 29, 0600 CET - Oct 03, 0600 CET

17.7 mcm/d; yearly maintenance

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Sep 29, 0400 BST - Sep 30, 0400 BST

41 GWh/d; other unavailability

Gassco +

Troll

Sep 29, 0600 CET - Sep 30, 0600 CET

10 GWh/d; yearly maintenance

BBL company

BBL pipeline

Sep 30, 0600 CET - Oct 15, 0600 CET

Planned maintenance

Gassco

Zeebrugge

Sep 30, 0600 CET - Oct 01, 0600 CET

22.2 mcm/d; yearly maintenance

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Oct 03, 0400 CET - Oct 03, 0500 CET

185 GWh/d; gas treatment plant unavailability

TAQA #

UGS Bergermeer

Oct 03, 0400 CET - Oct 11 0500 CET

403 GWh/d; other unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Oct 04, 0400 CET - Oct 31, 0500 CET

494 GWh/d; other unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Oct 05, 0400 CET - Oct 31, 0500 CET

482 GWh/d; other unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Oct 06, 0500 CET - Oct 31, 0500 CET

482 GWh/d; other unavailability

Gassco

Nyhamna

Oct 05, 0600 CET - Nov 02, 0600 CET

19.8 mcm/d; yearly maintenance

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Oct 09, 0500 CET - Oct 31, 0500 CET

463 GWh/d; other unavailability

Gassco

Oseberg

Oct 10, 0600 CET - Oct 23, 0600 CET

27.5 mcm/d; yearly maintenance

TAQA +

UGS Bergermeer

Oct 11, 0400 BST - Oct 31, 0500 BST

451 GWh/d; other unavailability

TAQA +

UGS Bergermeer

Oct 12, 0400 BST - Oct 31, 0500 BST

446 GWh/d; other unavailability

Gassco

Troll

Oct 14, 0600 CET - Oct 15, 0600 CET

11 mcm/d; yearly maintenance

Gassco

Aasta Hansteen

Oct 15, 0600 CET - Oct 19, 0600 CET

20.7 mcm/d; yearly mainetenance

SSE

Aldbrough

Oct 19, 0500 BST - Oct 23, 1800 BST

27.76 GWh/d; planned injection unavailability

Gassco

Troll

Oct 21, 0600 CET - Oct 22, 0600 CET

12 mcm/d; yearly maintenance

Kistos Energy Storage Ltd

Hill Top

Oct 22, 0800 BST - Oct 22, 1800 BST

0.6477TWh; planned storage unavailability

SSE

Aldbrough

Oct 25, 0500 BST - Nov 03, 1800 BST

74.44 GWh/d; planned injection unavailability

SSE

Aldbrough

Oct 25, 0500 BST - Oct 31, 1800 BST

97.78 GWh/d; planned injection unavailability

TAQA #

UGS Bergermeer

Oct 31, 0500 BST - Nov 02, 0500 BST

142 GWh/d; other unavailability

TAQA +

UGS Bergermeer

Nov 01, 0500 BST - Nov 02, 0500 BST

10 GWh/d; other unavailability

TAQA +

UGS Bergermeer

Nov 02, 0500 BST - Nov 09, 0500 BST

12 GWh/d; other unavailability

TAQA +

UGS Bergermeer

Nov 02, 0500 BST - Nov 03, 0500 BST

12 GWh/d; other unavailability

TAQA +

UGS Bergermeer

Nov 04, 0500 BST - Nov 05, 0500 BST

12 GWh/d; other unavailability

TAQA #

UGS Bergermeer

Nov 11, 0500 BST - Nov 15, 0500 BST

86 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability

TAQA #

UGS Bergermeer

Nov 15, 0500 BST - Nov 22, 0500 BST

31 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Nov 17, 0500 BST - Dec 1, 0500 BST

22 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Nov 20, 0500 BST - Dec 1, 0500 BST

19 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability

TAQA +

UGS Bergermeer

Nov 22, 0500 BST - Dec 1, 0500 BST

43 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Nov 23, 0500 BST - Dec 1, 0500 BST

17 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Nov 28, 0500 BST - Dec 01, 0500 BST

41 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Dec 01, 0500 BST - Dec 23, 0500 BST

48 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Dec 01, 0500 BST - Dec 19, 0500 BST

38 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability





Gassco

Visund

Dec 01, 0600 CET - Dec 02, 0600 CET

14.8 mcm/d; yearly maintenance

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Dec 01, 0500 BST - Dec 15, 0500 BST

65 GWh/d; Compressor station unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Dec 01, 0500 BST - Dec 08, 0500 BST

60 GWh/d; Compressor station unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Dec 01, 0500 BST - Dec 11, 0500 BST

62 GWh/d; other unavailability

TAQA #

UGS Bergermeer

Dec 01, 0500 BST - Dec 23 0500 BST

67 GWh/d; Compressor station unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Dec 09, 0400 BST - Dec 23, 0500 BST

31 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Dec 8, 0400 BST - Dec 23, 0500 BST

53 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Dec 11, 0400 BST - Dec 23, 0500 BST

55 GWh/d; other unavailability





TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Dec 18, 0500 BST - Dec 19, 0500 BST

12 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability

TAQA

UGS Bergermeer

Dec 21, 0500 BST - Dec 23, 0500 BST

58 GWh/d; compressor station unavailability

INEOS

FPS system

2026

The annual Unity ESDV closure test, Cruden Bay NGL ESDV leak test, and Forties Charlie equipment tests will take place (3Q- Aug 4); the Old Lock Berth Outage will take place (2Q)







NOTES:

  • To see all Gassco outages, please click https://bit.ly/3rQojCd

  • CET - Central European Time (GMT +1 or GMT +2, depending on time of the year)

  • * Capacity loss attributable to separate caverns

  • + indicates new addition

  • # indicates revision

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