Project operator Woodside said production at Train 4 of the North West Shelf Venture’s Burrup Peninsula plant had restarted on Tuesday night, the Australian newspaper reported today.

The plant, with an annual capacity of 4.2 million tonnes, went offline after a compressor fault on August 11.

Woodside is also reported to still be having difficulties resuming drilling in the Timor Sea after the Chinese-owned, Danish-operated Nan Hai VI semi-submersible drill ship was damaged in a blast late July.

Regulators are reported to be insisting that operator Maersk demonstrates that crew on the rig are properly skilled in operating it safely.