Outage in Australia Adds to Global LNG Crunch

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Australian oil and gas producer Santos was forced on Tuesday to shut down its newly-commissioned Barossa LNG plant, temporarily shutting the Darwin LNG export plant just as the global gas markets scramble for supply with the Middle East’s LNG out of the picture. Darwin LNG is now under “temporary shutdown”, necessary to replace equipment on the offshore production vessel at the Barossa project which feeds the export plant, a spokeswoman for Santos told the Australian Financial Review. It was not immediately clear when…

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