Indonesian regulator confirms Tangguh LNG disruption

Indonesia's upstream gas and oil regulator SKK Migas confirmed that there was an outage on the third train at BP's Tangguh liquefied gas (LNG), facility in West Papua. It said operations would begin to resume from Saturday.

Hudi Suryodipuro, spokesperson for SKK Migas, said on Thursday that an accident occurred on Train 3 Tangguh LNG in November 16 due to instrumentation problems at an onshore reception facility. This caused an emergency shut-off valve to be closed.

Hudi said that after repairs were carried out by the BP team, and the startup process was completed, a leak in the actuator was discovered. This required parts to be repaired and replaced.

He said that the LNG train would restart on November 23 and operations should return to normal by Nov. 25.

SKK Migas estimates the lost production opportunity as 5,000,000,000 standard cubic feet and 20,000 barrels condensate.

The third LNG Tangguh train, with a processing capability of 3.8 millions metric tons annually, was completed by July 2023. The train was out of service for a full week

Early this year

A component may be broken.

BP declined to comment on a request. (Reporting and Writing by Bernadette Cristina, Editing by John Mair).

(source: Reuters)