Chevron Suspends Wheatstone LNG Project for Offshore Platform Repairs

SEATTLE (Oil Monster): California, U.S.-based energy major Chevron Corporation announced suspension of operations at its Wheatstone liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Australia on account of repairs to its offshore platform’s fuel system. The company stopped production at its Wheatstone domestic gas project. The facility is unlikely to get back to production before this Friday, sources said.

According to Chevron spokesperson, LNG and domestic gas production has been suspended, as the offshore platform happens to be the major provider of gas to Wheatstone’s onshore facilities near Onslow. Incidentally, the Wheatstone platform produces feed gas from Wheatstone and Iago fields.

This is the fourth outage at the Wheatstone onshore facility during the past nine-month period.

Last week, the company had announced full restoration of LNG production at its flagship Gorgon project on Australia’s Barrow Island, following an outage due to mechanical fault to Train 2. The outage had lasted for almost a month. Meantime, operations of Trains 1 and 3 as well as the domestic gas plant were not impacted by the outage and continued operating as normal.

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