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Petronas declares

force majeure on

Malaysian LNG exports

EXPORTS MALAYSIA’S Petronas has declared force month that Malaysia LNG, majority-owned by
majeure on supplies from its Malaysian LNG Petronas, had reported a force majeure on LNG
facility following a pipe leak, the company said supplies to its customers. Besides Mitsubishi,
last week, further exacerbating global supply MLNG Dua’s customers include Eneos, Jera,
constraints. Sendai City Gas, Shizuoka Gas, Tohoku Electric
The leak was caused by a soil movement at the and Tokyo Gas, according to GIIGNL data.
Sabah-Sarawak gas pipeline on September 21. In its statement, Petronas said that the pipe-
“This has impacted the supply of gas to MLNG line leak had had an impact on delivery com-
Dua’s production facility at Petronas LNG Com- mitments under its contracts, and that it was
plex (PLC) in Bintulu, Sarawak,” Petronas said, in discussions to “identify suitable mitigation
adding that the force majeure only affected the efforts.”
MLNG facility. “The other LNG production PLC has an overall liquefaction capacity of
facilities within the PLC continue to operate as 25.7mn tpy, making it one of the largest LNG
planned.” facilities in the world. Besides MLNG Dua, it
Petronas did not say how much supply would also comprises the MLNG Satu and MLNG Tiga
be affected, nor how long the disruption would facilities. The most recent of its trains started up
continue. However, MLNG Dua has three trains in 2017.
with a total liquefaction capacity of 9.6mn All told, Petronas shipped 201 LNG cargoes
tonnes per year (tpy). from the PLC complex in the first half of this
Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp. said earlier this year.™

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