June 17, 2015 04:14 pm | Updated 04:14 pm IST - LUANDA:
Angola’s troubled Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant is set to resume operations by the end of this year after repairs, state media in the southwest African nation said on Wednesday.
A major rupture on a flare line triggered a facility-wide shutdown in April 2014 after less than a year of operation. The plant needed major reconstruction to fix design flaws and corrosion of nearly-new equipment, pushing unofficial estimates of the project’s cost to at least $12 billion.
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