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Skangas has successfully completed the first small scale LNG loading at the Statoil operated LNG plant . Statoil of Norway reportedly shut down its LNG processing facility at Melkoya due to a gas leak. Statoil spokesman Oerjan Heradstveit told Reuters the situation is under control and the leak has been stopped. The issue comes just days after Statoil revealed it plans to invest NOK20 billion (about US$2.9 billion) to expand its LNG export facility at Melkoya and to boost the plant’s operational life from 2035 to 2050. Melkøya, outside Hammerfest in Finnmark county, is a facility that receives and processes natural gas from the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea. The gas is conveyed in a 160 km gas pipeline to the facility, which became operational in the autumn of 2007. Statoil was the operator during the development phase and now has operational responsibility for the facility. At the onshore facility at Melkøya, condensate, water and CO2 are separated from the well stream before the natural gas is cooled down to a liquid form (LNG = liquefied natural gas) and stored in dedicated tanks. The pipeline has a capacity of 7.6 billion Sm3 a year. CO2 is separated from the natural gas and returned to the Snøhvit field, where it is injected in a separate formation under the reservoirs. The gas is subsequently exported in custom-built LNG ships.