Nyhamna is a small peninsula

Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic and Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands"....

 on the northeast side of the island of Gossa in the municipality of Aukra

Aukra

Aukra is a village and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the region of Romsdalen. The administrative centre is the village of Aukra....

 in Møre og Romsdal

Møre og Romsdal

is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. The county administration is located in Molde, while Ålesund is the largest city.-The name:...

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It is located about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) northeast of the village of Varhaugvika

Varhaugvika

Varhaugvika is a village in the municipality of Aukra in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the island of Gossa along the Julsund strait, just north of the village of Aukrasanden...

 and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of Aukrasanden

Aukrasanden

Aukrasanden is a village in the municipality of Aukra in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the southeast side of the island of Gossa, just south of the village of Varhaugvika. It has a ferry connection to Hollingen which is located on the mainland across the Julsund strait....

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The area was once a whaling

Whaling

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

Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, typically with 0–20% higher hydrocarbons . It is found associated with other hydrocarbon fuel, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is an important fuel source and a major feedstock for fertilizers.Most natural...

 from the Ormen Lange (gas field). There, the gas enters a processing facility that is connected to the northern end of the Langeled pipeline

Langeled pipeline

The Langeled pipeline is an underwater pipeline transporting Norwegian natural gas to the United Kingdom. Before the completion of the Nord Stream pipeline, it was the longest subsea pipeline in the world.-History:...

 which transports the gas under the sea to England

England

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. The processing facility at Nyhamna processes about 20000000000 cubic metres (4.8 cu mi) per year.