[ad_1]
The plant receives gas from the Ormen Lange field and the Aasta Hansteen field and has revenues of approximately NOK 100 million per day from gas that passes through the plant and beyond Europe.
Among other things, the pipeline contributes up to 20 per cent of the UK’s gas consumption.
– These are large plants with large volumes and a lot of trapped energy that must be safely dismantled. We also want to get off to a quick and safe start if the conflict is resolved, so that the loss in value for Norway as a whole is as small as possible, says the director of system operations at Gassco, Alfred Skår Hansen.
This afternoon, Gassco will come out with the exact consequences for the market, he says.
The guards have emergency duties
From night to Saturday, it has been announced that four guards with emergency duties in daily operations are to go on strike.
Hansen says a request for a waiver of the security guard strike was rejected.
– Looks like we have to shut down Nyhamna’s operation to ensure safety, and then we do. Safety and HSE will never be compared to anything else, Hansen says.
The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions announced on Monday that they are intensifying the guard strike and will remove an additional 85 striking guards from Friday. A total of 2,373 guards are now on strike.
– Of course, we hope the conflict is resolved. That opportunity is there, of course, and we look forward to it, but we have to prepare to close responsibly, he says.
THE PLANT: This is the gas plant of the municipality of Aukra in Møre og Romsdal.
Photo: Lillian Aasheim / Shell
Ongoing for more than two months
The strike has been going on for more than two months, which is unusually long in the Norwegian context, according to NTB.
Parat also eliminated the striking security guards, but decided to sign an agreement with the employers’ organization NHO Service og Handel on 4 November.
Last week, the Norwegian Trade Union Confederation made a new offer to employers. According to Fri Fagbevegelse, he had a framework within the front subject’s salary growth of 1.7 percent and a proposal for a solution to the NAF’s most important battle problem: the fixed salary.
The requirement is that security guards who work more than 20 percent of the positions must be paid a fixed salary and not be paid by the hour. Additionally, they proposed that security guards who work full-time full-time during the day should be entitled to time off on moving holidays.
However, NHO Service og Handel rejected the offer.
