BP is working on a development plan for a third train at its Tangguh LNG project in West Papua, Indonesia, that could come into operation before the end of the decade.
The UK supermajor is understood to be eyeing a 3.8 million tonnes per annum unit, the same as the two existing trains, and sufficient feedstock gas has been discovered to support it.
However, the company denied claims by Raden Priyono, chairman of Indonesia’s upstream regulator BPMigas, that it is forging ahead with Train 3.Priyono said construction would start in 2015 with output destined for domestic consumption to start flowing three years later.
“There is no final decision, although we are working on a development plan,” a BP spokeswoman said.
Meanwhile, the company has re-tendered an engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract for new condensate and diesel storage tanks and associated facilities at Tangguh.
