Production at one of the trains at Chevron's 8.9 million mt/year Wheatstone LNG facility in Western Australia has been halted due to an electrical problem, a spokeswoman for the company confirmed Friday.
The cause of the outage at the 4.45 million mt/year train 1 is being investigated, while train 2 continues production. No timeframe was given for when it is expected to be restarted. The facility has exported eight cargoes - or 400,000 mt of LNG - in February to date, down 24% from 526,000 mt of LNG a month earlier, according to Platts Analytics.
Wheatstone's second train began production in June last year. The first train began in October 2017. The Chevron-operated Wheatstone project is a joint venture between Australian subsidiaries of Chevron (64.14%), Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (13.4%), Woodside Petroleum (13%), and Kyushu Electric Power Company (1.46%), together with PE Wheatstone Pte. Ltd. part owned by JERA (8%).
