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Vessels Building Up Outside Bintulu LNG

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A backlog of LNG tankers has formed outside the Bintulu LNG facility, Malaysia this week after outages and maintenance work disrupted production in August according to Kpler and LSEG.

  • At least seven LNG tankers were waiting to load at the Bintulu terminal as of Tuesday.
  • The vessels expected to take cargoes today appear to be showing slight loading delays according to vessel tracking info.
  • Petronas' MLNG joint venture completed planned maintenance on its train 7 in August, while train 4 had issues that required unplanned maintenance according to Reuters sources.
  • Trains 8 and 9 had also undergone unplanned maintenance in August they added but all 4 of these trains are now back.
  • Reuters reported in August that Petronas had asked buyers to defer some cargoes from the facility.

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