A natural gas pipeline supplying Yemen's Balhaf export terminal in the Gulf of Aden was blown up again early Tuesday morning, the terminal operator Yemen LNG Co. said, just a few weeks after it was repaired from a previous sabotage.
A natural gas pipeline supplying Yemen's Balhaf export terminal in the
Gulf of Aden was blown up again early Tuesday morning, the terminal operator
Yemen LNG Co. said, just a few weeks after it was repaired from a previous
sabotage.
"Yemen LNG confirms the sabotage of the 38 inch gas pipeline that links
the block 18 to the Balhaf terminal on the
Gulf of Aden
,"
the firm said in a statement on its website.
"The explosion occurred at 0420 (local time) at 35 kilometres north of
Balhaf liquefaction plant. It caused no victims," it said.
The country's sole 320-km LNG pipeline has been repeatedly attacked, most
recently in April and August this year by suspected al Qaeda-linked militants.
Yemen
began
exporting LNG from Balhaf in 2009. French group Total SA (TOT) has an almost
40% interest in the liquefaction plant
The $4.5 billion Yemen LNG project has two production trains with a combined
capacity of 6.7 million tons per year, supplying mainly to Asia, Europe North
American and South America.
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