Bontang marks 6000th LNG shipment

Badak LNG, currently world?s largest LNG plant, will mark its 6000th LNG shipment on Thursday, local daily Kaltim Post reported Thursday.

The mark will be achieved by the East Kalimantan LNG plant -also popularly known as Bontang LNG- when vessel SS Surya Satsuma would sail to Hatsukaichi, Japan, bringing LNG to Hiroshima Gas Co.

Bontang is currently the world?s top LNG producer with production capacity of around 22 million tones per annum.

The plant started first shipment in 1977.

Bontang gets gas supply from East Kalimantan gas producers; namely Total E&P Indonesie, Vico Indonesia and Chevron. Bontang exports all its LNG production to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. (alex)