Qatar is implementing a stop-gap solution to replace the faulty equipment responsible for knocking out one-third of its LNG production since Jan.8,and it plans to begin producing LNG by Wednesday,with first cargoes shipping three days afterwards,Qatargas Chief Executive Faisal al-Suwaidi told WGI Monday.Qatargas-1-owned by state Qatar Petroleum(QP),Exxon Mobil,France's Total,and Japan's Mitsui and Marubeni-stopped operations almost two weeks ago on all three of its LNG trains.Al-Suwaidi blamed the outage on a"major technical fault"on multiple transformers that drive the water pump used for cooling.He said a single transformer failure happens occasionally,but for two transformers to go down at the same time is highly unexpected.
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机译：卡塔尔首席执行官卡塔尔正在实施一种权宜之计解决方案，以替换自1月8日以来淘汰LNG生产三分之一的故障设备，并计划在周三开始生产LNG，三批货物首批三天后出货。 Faisal al-Suwaidi周一告诉WGI。大约两周前，由卡塔尔国家石油公司（QP），埃克森美孚，法国道达尔（Total）以及日本三井和丸红公司（Mitsui and Marubeni）拥有的Qatargas-1停运了三艘LNG列车。他将故障归咎于驱动用于冷却的水泵的多台变压器的“重大技术故障”。他说，单台变压器偶尔会发生故障，但同时使两台变压器同时停机是非常意外的。
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