Woodside expects availability to drop this year at the North West Shelf export plant in Western Australia.

The Sydney listed exploration and production company, a joint venture partner in NWS, said a refurbishment programme will lead to 20 days of downtime at train 2 and 40 days at the trunk line onshore terminal.

Routine maintenance will add 30 days to train 2 and will impact 40 days of operations at train 4.

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