The $10 billion plant in Soyo had already started re-commissioning in January, although at the time the US supermajor said no commissioning cargo had been sold.

The 5.2 million-tonnes-per-annum Angola LNG project has been somewhat ill-fated. The LNG facility at Soyo was shut down on 10 April 2014 after technical issues, the nature of which was not explained at the time.

However,