00:01Tropical Cyclone Norell made landfall on Friday in Exmouth, Western Australia,
00:07disrupting liquefied natural gas plant operations and cutting power supply to residents.
00:12Downgraded from Category 4 to 3, the cyclone damaged the town's evacuation centre, forcing residents to relocate.
00:21Chevron and Woodside reported production disruptions at their Western Australia LNG facilities due to the cyclone.
00:27Chevron is working to restore output at Gorgon and Wheatstone, while Woodside's major gas plant in Karratha was also not
00:34spared.
00:35Norell is a severe tropical cyclone and is impacting communities along the Gascoyne coastline, packing wind gusts of up to
00:44260 km per hour.
00:46A short time ago, it made landfall near Exmouth.
00:50Now we know everyone in the Northwest are made of tough stuff, but our thoughts are with you all.
00:56It must be a very confronting situation for residents and personnel in that area.
01:02The Karratha gas plant, the onshore processing facility for Australia's Northwest Shelf LNG project,
01:09produces 14.3 million metric tonnes annually, down from 16.9 million tonnes after one of its five production trains
01:18was shut down.
01:22That's true for descendants's
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