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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