MOSCOW, March 5 (Reuters) - Russia's Sakhalin Energy, the
international operator of a pioneering liquefied natural gas
(LNG) plant in eastern Russia, said it had to make changes to
its LNG output on March 1 after the failure of one of two gas
pumping aggregates.
It said it was also "optimising" production at the Lunskaya
A offshore platform , which mainly produces gas for the LNG
plant, and evaluating the impact on LNG loading schedules.
The failure has not affected oil and gas production at other
platforms, the Piltun-Astokhskaya A and Piltun-Astokhskaya B.
It has not made further comments, saying it has been working
to restore production.
According to a trade source, one of the two trains at
Sakhalin-2 plant has been offline following the accident.
Sakhalin Energy produced and shipped record volumes of LNG
in 2020 topping 11.6 million tonnes.
The company supplies LNG to the Asia-Pacific with major
customers in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China.
Equity holders in Sakhalin Energy include Gazprom,
Royal Dutch Shell, and Japan's Mitsui and
Mitsubishi Corp.
(Reporting by Oksana Kobzeva and Jessica Jaganathan; writing by
Vladimir Soldatkin; editing by David Evans)
