LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell RDSa.L has extended a shutdown at its Queensland Curtis liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant to Oct. 30, data on the Australia Energy Market Operator (AEMO) website showed.
The 8.5 million-tonnes-per-annum capacity liquefaction plant started planned maintenance on Oct. 6. It has two production units, or trains.
According to the last AEMO update, more than half of a train but not more than a full train was planned to be shut Oct. 6-23. It said that more than one and a half trains but not more than two trains would be shut between Oct. 9-22.
In the latest update, the AEMO notice says that more than half of an LNG train but not more than a full train would remain shut until Oct. 30.
LNG producers such as Shell voluntarily submit information on production outages to the AEMO.