Angola LNG Confirms Outage

"Angola LNG is conducting a controlled shutdown for a minor intervention and expects to resume production shortly," a spokesperson has told NGW.

No details of when the shutdown began, the reason for it or its likely duration, were given. It is understood to have begun a few days ago.

The 5.2mn metric ton/yr capacity Chevron-led LNG venture has had a series of planned and unscheduled outages since it resumed exports in June 2016, following a two-year complete stoppage for major repairs and design modifications by the project's original contractor, Bechtel. 

Angola LNG first began exporting in mid-2013. The project is the world's first liquefaction project designed to run solely on associated gas that otherwise would be flared, so is critical to reducing the country's volume of flared gas.

Mark Smedley