Sakhalin Energy shuts biggest production platform for maintenance
6/1/2021
Russian LNG producer, Sakhalin Energy, said it would halt the Piltun-Astokhskaya-B (PA-B) offshore oil and gas production platform for planned annual maintenance for a month.
The PA-B platform is the first this year to shut for planned maintenance among the production assets of LNG plant Sakhalin-2, the company said.
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.
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