US-based energy giant Chevron has restarted production at the second liquefaction train of its giant Gorgon LNG facility in Western Australia.
The company said last Friday that Gorgon Train Two production had been suspended temporarily to undertake “minor maintenance.”
“Train Two production resumed on Sunday, February 26,” a Chevron spokesman said in an emailed statement on Monday.
Production at Chevron’s $54 billion Gorgon LNG project has been hit several times since it shipped its first cargo of the chilled fuel in March 2016.
The three-train LNG facility on Barrow Island faced four production interruptions in March, July, and two in November.
The spokesman said that production from Gorgon Train 1 “continues and we are loading LNG cargos.”
“Train Three construction is complete and we are well into start-up and commissioning activities,” he added.
Earlier this year, Chevron’s CEO John Watson said the company was expecting to start LNG production from the third train early in the second quarter of this year.
He also said then that the Gorgon plant had shipped 39 cargoes of the chilled fuel.
Once in full production, the LNG export plant is expected to produce about 15.6 million mt/year.
The Gorgon LNG project is operated by Chevron that owns a 47.3 percent stake, while other shareholders are ExxonMobil (25 percent), Shell (25 percent), Osaka Gas (1.25 percent), Tokyo Gas (1 percent) and Chubu Electric Power (0.417 percent).
(Article updated on Monday, February 27, to say that Chevron has restarted production at the Gorgon Train Two)
LNG World News Staff