UK's Barrow natural gas terminal flows resume to partial capacity

The UK's Barrow natural gas terminal restored gas supply to the country on Monday, although overall throughput capacity at the terminal remained impaired.

Flows restored by 1300 GMT Monday Gas treatment plant unavailability still ongoing 73% of terminal capacity unavailable until Tuesday 1300 GMT

From 1300 GMT on Monday, an average of 1.3 million cu m/d of flows were seen passing through the terminal, according to National Grid data.

At 1337 GMT, operator Centrica updated market transparency information to indicate that while flows were resuming, the issue with the gas treatment plant at the site remained active and would reduce technical capacity to 2.1 million cu m/d, effectively by 73%, until at least 1300 GMT on Tuesday.

The restored flows are the first such supply seen from the terminal since 1500 GMT on November 18. Barrow supplied an average of 3.3 million cu m/d to the UK between November 12-18, with Centrica declaring its previous outage over on November 13.

The Barrow terminal has experienced recurring problems in its gas treatment plant. Since the issue's onset on July 16, full capacity has only been available between October 23-26, November 6-9 and November 13-18, during which months of planned and unplanned works have taken place.

A planned unavailability of equal magnitude is scheduled to take place between 0600 GMT and 1800 GMT on December 17 due to an "offshore pipeline unavailability."