Norway's gas output down 15 mcm on Monday due to Kollsnes failure

OSLO: Norway's Kollsnes gas processing plant, the country's biggest, suffered a production outage early on Monday due to bad weather, and its output will be down by 15 million cubic metres on Monday, gas system operator Gassco said in a market message.

The outage, due to a failure in its external power supply, is expected to last 10 to 14 hours and the plant started to ramp up shortly after the outage, Gassco said.

Norway supplies a fifth of the European Union's gas needs.

Kollsnes on the country's west coast has a daily processing capacity of 143 million cubic metres per day, or around 40 percent of Norway's maximum daily production.