Pluto LNG: Woodside Energy says production has resumed after emergency outage

Woodside Energy’s Pluto LNG plant near Karratha has been restarted after an emergency shutdown last week. The $15 billion facility on the Burrup Peninsula is operated remotely from a command centre in Perth — but was sent offline following a “fault in the Pluto control system”. There were no injuries reported and regulator Worksafe said its inspectors would make enquiries into the incident. “Pluto LNG production has resumed.” a spokeswoman said on Monday afternoon. The site will soon have as many as 1300 workers for the construction of a second processing train, part of a $19b project to develop the Scarborough field off the State’s North West coast. Woodside recently told investors the Pluto plant had run at 99.9 per cent reliability through the September quarter, bringing in about $U920m ($1.4b) revenue. That implies a one-week outage would cost about $100m in lost revenue.