OSLO, March 2 (Reuters) - Output at the Nyhamna natural gasplant on Norway's western coast, which processes gas from RoyalDutch Shell's giant Ormen Lange field, has been furtherreduced on Saturday due to a power grid failure, gas systemoperator Gassco said.
"Failure in the national power grid system, due to stormyweather," Gassco said on its website.
The plant suffered an unexpected outage early on Saturdaywhich reduced production by 32 million cubic metres on Saturday,and the power failure and weather problems is expected to reduceit by an additional 50 mcm per day until 0500 GMT on Sundaymorning.
The plant produces primarily for export to Britain.
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.
