Yemen LNG denied on Tuesday the pipeline which feeds the Balhaf plant with natural gas had been sabotaged again.
"Yemen LNG Company denies the news of a pipeline sabotage that was reported by some press agencies this 4th September,” it posted on its website, hours of reports the pipeline was blown up earlier Tuesday.
“LNG production is running on the two trains at the Balhaf LNG plant and all the upstream facilities and the pipeline are in service at nominal capacity,” the statement added.
Yemen’s oil and gas pipeline have been repeatedly attacked this year and last year. So far this year, the natural gas pipeline, which links Block 18 in Marib province to the Balhaf LNG terminal, has suffered six attacks by Al-Qaeda militants.
Yemen LNG reopened in the last days of August after the August 21 explosion at the natural gas pipeline, it said in a previous statement.
Also, officials at the oil and minerals ministry said saboteurs have tried to attack the Marib pipeline several times after it had resumed pumping following a nine-month shutdown.
The attempts to bomb this key oil pipeline have all been unsuccessful, the officials added.