Energy giant Petronas faced ‘catastrophic’ safety issues

An internal audit of Petronas, the Malaysian-owned energy company with proposed LNG operations in B.C., found potentially “catastrophic” problems in its oil and gas platforms off the Malaysian coast.

Petronas said in a statement Wednesday that the most serious concerns in the 2013 audit have been resolved.

The Vancouver Sun obtained a copy of the report and consulted a few experts, including Edouard Asselin, Canada Research Chair in Aqueous Processing of Metals at UBC.

“This presentation does not cast a very good light on the maintenance procedures at these particular facilities,” Asselin said, while noting that he didn’t have a full picture of Petronas’s operations.