Ramp-up of gas production at Tyra II project will improve European energy security this winter
French supermajor TotalEnergies is ready to send more natural gas to markets in north-west Europe from the Tyra field in the Danish North Sea at precisely the right time with the onset of winter.
The gas supplies will help satisfy increasing winter consumption on the continent and later mitigate the strongly expected halt of remaining Russian gas pipeline flows via Ukraine to several European countries from January.
TotalEnergies has been wrestling with technical start-up issues at the $3 billion Tyra II redevelopment.
But minority shareholder in the Tyra field, Oslo-listed BlueNord, said in a statement on Saturday that “TotalEnergies has informed its partners that all necessary machinery is now fully operational at the new Tyra facilities”.
Bluenord added that achieving full technical capacity would enable the ramp-up to production plateau before year-end.
“I am very pleased that Tyra II has achieved full technical capacity, and we can begin the ramp-up to plateau production before the winter season. The benefits of restarting Tyra II extend beyond increased gas production,” said BlueNord chief operating officer Miriam Lykke said.
In several statements released earlier this year, TotalEnergies said that “operational occurrence with the gas compressor station” at Tyra II had prevented it from ramping up output to its full technical production capacity of 8.1 million cubic metres of gas per day.
