Chevron has evacuated some personnel from its Western Australia LNG projects as a cyclone approaches.

Tropical Cyclone Lua is expected to make landfall near Port Hedland. The storm is projected to hit the coast as a category 2 cyclone with sustained winds of 175 kilometres per hour, according to Tropical Storm Risk.

US supermajor Chevron started to evacuate some personnel from its Gorgon LNG project on Barrow Island earlier today, sister