Inga Sølvi Korsvik Melby fears that the gas plant at Aukra could be a terrorist target. Photo: Malin Kjellstadli Korsnes / news The explosions on the gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea have worried the villagers of Aukra. From the island on the Romsdal coast, gas goes in huge pipes to England. – I think maybe people are thinking a little more about this now. Could it be that the Russians are coming here, says Inga Sølvi Korsvik Melby. She thinks what has happened is scary. Pensioner Anne Tømmervåg is also concerned about the sabotage on the gas pipe. – After what happened now, we have started to think. Are we living in a bomb? says Tømmervåg. She emphasizes that she is not panicking, but the incident in the Baltic Sea is the talk of the town now. The plant at Nyhamna in Aukra sends gas to England. Photo: Roar Strøm / news Visit by Russian oligarchs The Ormen Lange facility is located on the coast of Møre og Romsdal, an area that has had frequent visits by Russian yachts in recent years. For six years, the Russian yacht Elden sailed back and forth across the reeds to the facility at Nyhamna. In May this year, news was able to provide documentation that one of these ships crossed back and forth close to the gas plant. This is how the yacht Elden and the companion boat Severnaya Ten crossed slowly several times past the large gas plant at Nyhamna. Graphics: Vesselfinder.com Increases safety Nyhamna supplies Great Britain with 20 percent of all the gas it needs. The gas comes from the Ormen Lange field and the Aasta Hansteen field. Randi I. Viksund is communications director at Gassco. Photo: Press image / Gassco The company Gassco is the operator of the pipeline. Now they are tightening security. – The level of security has increased since March as a result of the Ukraine crisis. In light of the incidents on the Nord Stream pipelines, we have stepped up the measures a notch further, says communications director Randi I. Viksund in an email to news. Shell operates the land plant at Nyhamna. There, too, the measures are stricter. – We are doing this in light of what has happened in recent days. We are keeping a close eye on what is happening. We do that and so do many other operators, says Kitty Eide, communications manager at Shell. On Thursday morning, there are police outside the gates. Don’t want to scare people Mayor of Hammerfest, Terje Wikstrøm, is currently not worried about sabotage at the gas plant just outside the city. Photo: Eirik Sørenmo Påsche / news There are also fears of sabotage at the gas plant on Melkøya outside Hammerfest. Mayor of Hammerfest, Terje Wikstrøm, does not want to scare the 10,000 residents. – In that case, the concern should come as the intelligence says that it is a real target. So far there is nothing to indicate that, says Wikstrøm. He says that people should be confident that the municipality has contingency plans for sabotage and terror. No need to worry Odd Jørgen Nilssen is mayor of Aukra. He understands that people are worried. Photo: Malin Kjellstadli Korsnes / news Mayor of Aukra, Odd Jørgen Nilssen (H) understands that the villagers are worried, but he says that the municipality should stay sober. – We see no reason to blow this up and worry yet, says Nilssen. The municipality is in close dialogue with Nyhamna. Arnstein Eikrem is one of the closest neighbors to the gas plant at Aukra. He sits on a lawn tractor and has never thought that there could be a danger of terrorism until now. – I think about what could happen and whether they can come up with something here. We have a large gas plant close to us. If there is an explosion in the area, it is quite serious, he says. Arnstein Eikrem is the nearest neighbor to the gas treatment plant at Nyhamna in Aukra. Photo: Malin Kjellstadli Korsnes / news This is how the distribution of gas in pipelines between Norway and abroad works.
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