Nyhamna is a small

peninsula A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all ...

on the northeast side of the island of Gossa in

Aukra Municipality Aukra is municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the region of Romsdalen. The administrative centre is the village of Falkhytta, which is part of the Aukrasanden urban area. The municipality is made up of the island o ...

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. It is located along the

Julsundet Julsundet is a long strait connecting the Norwegian Sea to the Romsdalsfjorden. The strait is located about west of the town of Molde in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The strait runs through the municipalities of Fræna, Aukra, Molde, and ...

strait, about northeast of the village of

Varhaugvika Varhaugvika is a village in Aukra Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the eastern side of the island of Gossa along the Julsundet strait, just north of the village of Aukrasanden. The municipal centre of Aukra is at ...

and northeast of the village of

Aukrasanden Aukrasanden is a village in Aukra Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located on the southeast side of the Gossa (island), island of Gossa, just south of the village of Varhaugvika and the municipal centre of Falkhytta ...

. The area was once a

whaling Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industry ...

station, but is now an industrial area. Since 2002, it has been the landing place of the

natural gas Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...

from the

Ormen Lange (gas field) Ormen Lange is a natural gas field on the Norwegian continental shelf. It is situated northwest of Kristiansund, where seabed depths vary between . The field is named after the famous longship '' Ormen Lange'' of Olaf Tryggvason, a 10th-centu ...

gas field. At this facility, the gas enters a processing facility, the

Nyhamna Gas Plant The Nyhamna Gas Plant is a large and significant natural-gas processing plant in Aukra, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. As of January 2018, Norway was the world's third-largest natural gas exporter, after Russia and Qatar. History Construction of the ...

that is connected to the northern end of the

Langeled pipeline The Langeled pipeline (originally known as Britpipe) is an underwater gas pipeline transporting Norwegian natural gas to the United Kingdom. Before the completion of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, it was the longest subsea pipeline in the world. ...

which transports the gas under the sea to Easington in

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. The processing facility at Nyhamna processes about per year.

References

Aukra Populated places in Møre og Romsdal Natural gas terminals {{MøreRomsdal-geo-stub