SBM chief executive Bruno Chabas blamed the continued delays on limits to the number of workers that can be allocated to the commissioning work.

However, the reasons for the continued delays are not serious, he claimed.

Speaking from SBM’s Monaco headquarters, Chabas said: “We are still working on teething problems on this project in order to have full commissioning. We were expecting to get full commissioning in August but it is still dragging on for some reasons, which we believe are minor.

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