Woodside to sideline NWSV Train 1
Woodside, the operator of Australia’s North-West Shelf venture (NWSV), said it
would shut down the project’s original liquefied natural gas compression
unit, Train 1, at the Karratha plant in Western Australia for about 30 days
of maintenance next week.
The shutdown will coincide with the shut in for maintenance of the venture’s
Goodwyn gas production platform, Bloomberg reported.
Train 1 has the capacity to produce up to 2.5 million tonnes of LNG per year.
It is one of four production units at the facility with total output
capacity of 11.9 million tonnes per year. A fifth train is due to start up
in the fourth quarter, boosting output by 37%.
Woodside’s vice president for the North West Shelf, Eve Howell, told Bloomberg
last month the project’s Train 4 would be shut down in September for similar
maintenance work. She said neither of the stoppages would affect loadings or
production forecasts.
The six equal partners in the North West Shelf joint venture are Woodside, BHP
Billiton, Chevron, BP,Shell and Japan Australia LNG (MiMi), a joint venture
of Mitsubishi and Mitsui & Company.
07 May 2008 02:14 GMT
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07 May 2008 02:14 GMT
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