Platform delay stalls Perla gas

摘要

Commercial output at Venezuela’s shallow-water Perla natural gas field will start in July at the earliest, because the$5bn project’s main plat-form is still not in place.The platform, built in Mexico,should arrive“in less than four months”,state-owned PdV says.It was originally scheduled for delivery in mid-2014(WPA,20 Febru-ary,p5).Perla’s joint-venture opera-tors,Spain’s Repsol and Italy’s Eni, discovered the 16.3 trillion ft3(460bn m3)field in 2009.