News archive

• Record summer for Norwegian gas

  Norway has hit a new peak for summer deliveries of natural gas to Europe, and will soon be opening its new Polarled pipeline to carry more of this commodity from the Norwegian Sea.

  2018-09-21

• Increased reporting on gas flow

  More details on planned maintenance, unplanned incidents and the flow of gas in and out of the transport system will be given by Gassco from 4 April to provide more coordinated information.

  2018-04-03

• Clear record set for Norwegian gas exports

  Forty years after Norway’s natural gas adventure began, its deliveries of this commodity to European and British buyers in 2017 solidly outstripped previous annual levels.

  2018-01-11

• Nyhamna strengthens Norway’s position as gas exporter

  Gassco has taken over on 1 October as operator for the gas processing plant at Nyhamna in Aukra local authority on Norway’s west coast.

  2017-10-01

• Four decades of high and reliable gas deliveries

  Norway’s gas era can celebrate its 40th anniversary today. The opening of the Norpipe pipeline on 8 September 1977 marked the start of Norwegian gas deliveries to European consumers.

  2017-09-08

• Operator for Polarled

  Gassco has taken over the operatorship of the Polarled pipeline built to carry gas initially from the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea to the Nyhamna process plant.

  2017-05-04

• Gassco awards study jobs for CO₂ transport

  “We’re very pleased to award contracts to Larvik Shipping and Brevik Engineering covering conceptual studies for transporting CO₂ by ship,” says Gassco CEO Frode Leversund.

  2017-04-26

• Getting down and dirty with VR

  Pupils in their second year at Kopervik upper secondary school can look forward to an exciting spring of testing out 360-degree film and photographs, in close collaboration with Gassco.

  2017-02-14

• Demand for Norwegian gas

  A new record for gas exports from Norway was set in 2016, when 108.56 billion standard cubic metres (scm) were delivered within Gassco’s operatorship to Germany, Belgium, France and the UK.

  2017-01-10

• Full speed ahead for capture, shipping and storage of CO₂

  The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has commissioned Gassco to support the state-owned Gassnova company in continued work on a full-scale facility for carbon capture, transport and storage.

  2016-12-20