Burrup hopes for gas supply resumption by weekend
08 December 2008 17:06 [Source: ICIS news]
LONDON (ICIS news)--Australia’s Burrup Holdings Ltd is hoping for a resumption of partial gas supplies to its 760,000 tonne/year Pilbara ammonia plant by the weekend but Apache Energy has still not confirmed whether this will occur, a company official said on Monday.
“We will wait and see if it actually happens,” the source said.
Australian media reports had suggested that Apache was scheduled to restart supplies on 4 December but had to push this back and could not guarantee when supplies to the plant would resume.
Burrup’s plant has been without gas supplies since an explosion and fire at Apache’s
Initially Burrup brought forward a planned shutdown at the unit in the wake of the disruption to gas supplies and early expectations were that the unit could be down for a couple of months.
However, in August talk turned to resumption in supplies in December, with Burrup unable to secure sufficient gas from alternative sources to restart the plant.
Burrup has a take-or-pay contract for the purchase of gas from the Harriet Joint Venture (HJV), which is 68.5% owned by Apache. The incident at Varanus halted production at Apache’s HJV assets.
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