Cyclone Causes Outages at Australia’s Top LNG Projects

A cyclone has disrupted operations at a total of three LNG facilities in Australia, including Chevron’s Gorgon and Wheatstone, worsening an increasingly severe global LNG supply crunch. Santos was the first to report a shutdown at its Barossa gas field, which feeds the Darwin LNG terminal, earlier this week as a tropical cyclone barreled towards Australia. Chevron reported the outages at Gorgon and Wheatstone earlier today, as quoted by Reuters, with a spokesperson saying that “We will resume full production at both facilities once…