Chevron is conducting minor planned maintenance at its Wheatstone natural gas facility in Australia, temporarily reducing production rates on LNG Train 1, a company spokesperson said on Tuesday.
"The annual service event is expected to be completed within the coming week," the spokesperson said, adding that domestic gas production has remained unaffected.
The Chevron-operated Wheatstone facility comprises two LNG trains with a combined export capacity of 8.9 million tonnes per annum, and a domestic gas plant.
Last year, two-thirds of its LNG exports were shipped to Japan, according to data by analytics firm Kpler.
The Wheatstone Project is a joint venture between Australian subsidiaries of Chevron (64.14 per cent), Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) (13.4 per cent), Woodside Energy Group Ltd (13 per cent), and Kyushu Electric Power Company (1.46 per cent), together with PE Wheatstone, part-owned by JERA (eight per cent).
The Wheatstone Project's offshore processing platform is located in 70 metres of water, about 225 kilometres from the coast. The offshore facilities gather and partially process gas and associated condensate from the Wheatstone, Iago, Julimar and Brunello gas fields, and deliver it onshore via trunkline for further processing.
(Reporting by Emily Chow; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)