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04 Jun 2024

Full Production Restored at Chevron's Flagship LNG Project

04 Jun 2024  by upstreamonline   

Chevron's Gorgon gas facility in Australia.Photo: CHEVRON
US supermajor Chevron has restored full liquefied natural gas (LNG) production at its Gorgon project on Australia’s Barrow Island, after a mechanical fault caused Train 2 to go offline on 30 April.

Gorgon has three liquefaction trains that can produce a total of 15.6 million tonnes per annum of LNG, above their combined design capacity of 15 million tpa.

"Chevron Australia has resumed full LNG production from the Gorgon gas facility with the safe restart of a production train on Wednesday, May 29, following an outage," a company spokesperson was quoted by Reuters.

Upstream has approached Chevron for independent confirmation.

The operator earlier said it expected repairs to Train 2 would take around five weeks to complete.

The Gorgon project exports LNG both on term contracts to North Asian customers and as spot cargoes. The facility also houses a domestic gas plant with capacity to supply 300 terajoules per day of gas to the Western Australian domestic market.

Neither of the other two trains was impacted by Train 2’s outage while the domgas plant also continued operating as normal.

Chevron operates the Gorgon project with 47.3% equity on behalf of partners ExxonMobil and Shell on 25% apiece, Osaka Gas having 1.25%, MidOcean Energy on 1% and JERA with 0.417%.

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