OSLO, March 2 (Reuters) - The Nyhamna natural gas plant onNorway's western coast, which processes gas from Royal DutchShell's giant Ormen Lange field, suffered an unexpectedoutage early on Saturday, gas system operator Gassco said.
Output at the plant, which produces primarily for export toBritain, is expected to be down by 32 million cubic metres onSaturday, Gassco said in a market message.
The Nyhamna issue comes on top of an outage at Statoil's Kvitebjørn gas field, which already reduced output by22 million cubic metres on Saturday.
Norway is Europe's second biggest piped gas exporter and thetwo outages equal around a sixth of its daily production.