The partial withdrawal outage at the 4.1 Bcm (46 TWh) Bergermeer gas storage facility in the Netherlands, which has cut send-out capacity to a little of over 90% has been extended by a week to January 26, operator TAQA said late Tuesday.
The 4.2 million cu m outage leaves the facility at 93% of its 60 million cu m/day nameplate send-out capacity. The restriction began last Friday, with a 4.8 million cu m reduction, which had left 92% of capacity in operation.
TAQA did not provide an explanation for the outage.
Bergermeer only resumed full withdrawal capacity late December after being dogged by protracted technical issues since the start of commercial operations last April.
The latest outage comes as the market braces itself for a turn to sharply colder temperatures from later this week, falling to as low as 3.4 degrees Celsius below norms in the Netherlands by next Tuesday, according to Eclipse Energy, an analytics unit of Platts.
Bergermeer is nominated to make 26.7 million cu m net withdrawals Wednesday, Eclipse Energy said.
