Nippon Oil & Energy Corp has said its venture with Petronas has started commercial operations at the LNG complex in Bintulu, Sarawak.
The train, with a production capacity of 3.6million tonnes of LNG per year, started on January 1st.
The launch of the ninth train comes at a time when US LNG exporters are sending tankers to Asia to fill a gap in the region’s demand as markets have tightened more than expected.
In June last year, JX Nippon Oil bought a 10% stake in a Petronas subsidiary that was developing the ninth train in Malaysia’s Sarawak state.