Yemen LNG’s Second Train Comes Onstream

Yemen LNG has started producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its second train a month earlier than scheduled.

The firm’s LNG production is expected to reach design capacity of 6.7 million tons a year with the opening of the second train at the LNG terminal in Balhaf on the Gulf of Aden.

The $4.5bn project with two operating trains is the largest in Yemen.

Balhaf receives LPG extracted in cryogenic units from gas which in turn is supplied from Block 18 in the Marib region of central Yemen.

Train 1 began production in October 2009 and has delivered LNG to Total Gas and Power, GDF Suez and KOGAS in Korea, the US, China, Mexico and Spain.