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connecting Tyra with the surrounding ?elds.

ENERGY SECURITY

Following the necessary Tyra shutdown for redevelop- ment works, in 2020, the total production of gas in Den- mark dropped to 1.4 billion cubic meters, a steep decline compared to the gas production in 2019, where the total production was 3 billion normal cubic meters.

According to TotalEnergies, once the modernized Tyra

II is back on stream, it will be the most modern natural gas ?eld in the world and is expected to deliver 2.8 billion cu- bic meters of gas per year to Denmark and Europe through the export pipelines to Nybro and Den Helder.

The operator has said that the redevelopment will re- duce CO2 by 30% and ?aring can be reduced by 90%.

TotalEnergies has said that Tyra will play "a key role in making Denmark self-suf?cient and net exporter of affordable and stable energy again – also to the bene?t of our European neighbors."

This is especially important as Europe has been work- ing to wean itself off the Russian gas, amid the con?ict in

Ukraine.

Denmark started extracting North Sea oil and gas in 1972 and is European Union's largest oil producer. In 2020 it set a ?nal phase-out date of fossil extraction by 2050, including Tyra.

However, in April 2022, Reuters reported that the Dan-

Contractors who once again executed textbook lifting op- ish government aimed „to signi?cantly boost renewable erations. Nevertheless, there is still a lot of work offshore energy supply and temporarily increase production of to complete in order to get Tyra II ready for ?rst gas in the natural gas from its ?elds in the North Sea, in a move to winter season 2023/24," said Lars Bo Christiansen, Deputy rapidly become independent of Russian supplies.“

Project Director for TotalEnergies EP Denmark A/S, said "We are convinced it's better to produce gas in the North after Heerema installed the ?nal bridge in October 2022. Sea than buying it from Vladimir Putin," Reuters reported

On the last day of June 2023, TotalEnergies said it had Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen as saying at the time.

reconnected the 30-inch export pipeline between the Tyra New gas supplies will be appreciated even more as Rys- ?eld and Denmark, to enable the gas export once the ?eld tad recently week said that global gas demand is projected resumes its production. to rise in the next decade, in?uencing a 12.5% surge in

In July 2023, TotalEnergies said its dedicated teams production between 2023 and 2030. were working around the clock to ensure that the Tyra However, Rystad Energy forecasts that even in scenarios ?eld would be back to production in the winter season of of 1.9 and 2.5 degrees Celsius warming, with rapid growth 2023/24. in renewable energy sources, the current set of existing gas

During the Tyra redevelopment, Tyra and the surround- ?elds will not meet global demand, and more new ?elds ing ?elds were temporarily disconnected and the satellite will be required.

platforms Svend, Roar, Harald, Valdemar, and Tyra South As for Denmark, information on the Danish Energy

East were put into idle mode to enable the removal of the Agency's website shows that after the reconstruction of the old Tyra and installation of the new Tyra. Tyra ?eld, Denmark will remain a net exporter of natural

In September 2023, the project reached another mile- gas until the mid-2030s while Denmark will remain a net stone with the ?nal work on the subsea infrastructure, re- importer of oil until the phase-out in 2050.

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