Friday, June 10, 2011

Petronas clarifies Tenaga's purchase of power from Singapore

KUALA LUMPUR: Petroliam Nasional Bhd clarified reports of TENAGA NASIONAL BHD [] buying power from Singapore was due to planned maintenance'' on two facilities which have since been successfully completed.

The national oil corporation said on Friday, June 10 the maintenance was carried out on an offshore production facility from April 19-26 and at an onshore crude processing facility from May 26 to June 4.

'The exercises, carried out to ensure the integrity of the systems and processes at the two facilities, required a total shutdown of the facilities, resulting in a reduction of supply of natural gas to our customers during the maintenance periods,' it said.

It was clarifying news reports that TNB's purchase of power from Singapore due to 'a shutdown of Petronas-owned gas production platforms'.

Petronas said during the maintenance periods, it curtailed the supply of gas to its customers, including to the power sector, to ensure'' each customer sector would receive optimum volume of gas.

It had also held discussions with its customers and gave advance notification of the shutdowns to allow for mitigation measures.

'The maintenance works were successfully completed as per their schedules and the supply situation to the customers has since improved,' it said.

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