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Angola LNG plant to restart by 2015-end

Published - June 17, 2015 04:14 pm IST - LUANDA:

Major rupture on a flare line triggered a shutdown in April 2014

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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