Peru LNG halts exports after pipeline rupture, plant maintenance
LNG exports from Peru have stopped entirely since mid-January when a key pipeline was ruptured, official data showed Monday.
The country typically exports about 1 million cubic meters of LNG each month.
Peru will likely resume its usual six shipments of between 130,000 and 170,000 cubic meters/month in the coming days, according to a gas-production source quoted by news agency Reuters.
The source said the pipeline leak first stopped exports, while maintenance work at a liquefaction plant later delayed shipments while the pipeline was being repaired.
Peru is one of Latin America's top LNG exporters and mostly ships its LNG to Mexico.
The most recent shipment from Peru LNG went to Spain on Jan. 16, just before Transportadora de Gas del Peru SA (TgP) reported a new leak in its 560-kilometer natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline.
TgP said on Feb. 2 that the pipeline, which runs from the Amazon to the Pacific coast, had been fixed and that causes of the leak were under investigation.
Last year, a leak in the same pipeline forced Peru to import LPG.
Peru LNG is controlled by Hunt Oil Co. with Shell, SK Corp. and Marubeni holding minority stakes. Shell is in charge of exporting the LNG.
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