SINGAPORE: Shell has suspended production at its Prelude floating LNG facility off Western Australia due to a trip, a Shell spokeswoman said on Friday.

“Production on the Shell-operated Prelude FLNG facility has been temporarily suspended due to a trip,” she said.

“We are working methodically through the stages in the restart process with safety and stability foremost in mind.”

Shell did not give a time frame for when production at the facility would resume.

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In the past year, Shell has wrestled with disruptions at Prelude FLNG, the world’s largest floating LNG platform. Production at the 3.6 million tonnes a year facility was last suspended in December after a small fire broke out.

LNG cargo shipments resumed nearly a month later.

That came after production and shipments were disrupted from July to September last year due to work bans by unions seeking better pay.