Monday August 28, 9:38 am ET
Shell PLC Halts Section of Pipeline Construction at Russian LNG Project
MOSCOW (AP) — A consortium led by Royal Dutch Shell PLC has suspended pipe-laying work at a section of its giant liquefied natural gas project on Russia’s far eastern island of Sakhalin because of substandard construction work, a spokesman for the consortium said Monday.
Ivan Chernikovsky said work had been halted on oil and gas pipelines that traverse a mudslide-prone mountainous area due the company’s concerns that subcontractors’ work did not meet the necessary construction standards. He said the halt would not push back the project’s completion date.