Melkøya
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or is an island in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The island is connected to the town of Hammerfest (on the neighbouring island of Kvaløya to the west) by the 2,316 metres-long Melkøysund Tunnel, which was completed in 2003.
Key facts
- Islands.image_name
- Melkøya-2006.JPG
- Islands.location
- Finnmark, Norway
- Islands.area_km2
- 0.69
- Islands.length_km
- 1.6
- Islands.width_m
- 810
- Islands.elevation_m
- 71
- Islands.country
- Norway
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- County
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- Finnmark
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
- Municipality
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Hammerfest Municipality
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- Area
- 0.69
- Elevation
- 71
- Image
- Melkøya-2006.JPG
- Width
- 810
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- Melkøya
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- Muolkkut
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or is an island in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The island is connected to the town of Hammerfest (on the neighbouring island of Kvaløya to the west) by the 2,316 metres-long Melkøysund Tunnel, which was completed in 2003.
The industrial island is the endpoint of the undersea pipeline that transports natural gas from the Snøhvit natural gas fields in the Barents Sea. The gas goes through the long pipeline to the processing plant Hammerfest LNG on Melkøya where 18 million cubic metres per day is converted into liquefied natural gas. The plant opened in 2007 and is operated by Equinor. After a fire closed the plant in 2020, it re-opened in 2022. Liquefied natural gas is then exported from Melkøya to world markets by a LNG gas carrier or tanker. The plant emitted 0.9 million tonnes of in 2023.
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