Yemen Liquid Natural Gas has started setting up watchtowers with the aim of securing the main pipelines which transfers gas from Marib to Belhaf port for exportation and ending any sabotage acts.
A local source in Shabwa said that Yemen LNG will set up about 30 watchtowers to prevent any attacks against the company's pipeline.
Sources said that security measures were taken, security barriers were established and that a main street close to the company was closed.
They further said the defense minister Mohammad Nassser Ahmed directed to tighten security measures around the company.
The pipeline was subjected to several sabotage acts and Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula claimed the responsibility of some attacks.
Yemen started on Wednesday repairing a pipeline which was blown up about 295 km north of the Balhaf LNG plant the prior day, the Yemeni official agency Saba reported.
Yemeni officials visited the damage site and confirmed technical teams from the Safer Exploration and Production Operations Company have already started the repair work, it said.
Yemen LNG said in a statement late on Tuesday the pipeline had suffered an act of sabotage but did not say whether pumping was halted.
Yemen LNG’s export facility at Balhaf, which was launched in 2009 and is led by French oil major Total with three South Korea companies holding stakes, is the largest-ever industrial project in Yemen.
The $4.5 billion Yemen LNG project has two production trains with a combined capacity of 6.7 million tonnes per year (mtpy), supplying mainly to South Korea, and then to Europe and Americas.