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Gas shortage hampers tissue production

Production at tissue products giant Kimberly-Clark’s south-east South Australian mill has been significantly disrupted because of a gas shortage.

Origin Energy’s local Katnook field is running dry and it has told 11 major companies in the region to ration their use.

Kimberly-Clark is the biggest user of gas from the Katnook field and its Millicent mill manager Ross Nugent says it has come as a shock.

“The pressure had dropped and that’s the first we knew about the pending problems and Origin asked us to curtail our activity in response to the reducing pressure,” Mr Nugent said.

“We took note of their requests and did curtail supply, we shut down two of our four tissue machines and we shut down our Tantanoola pulp mill in response to allow the pressure to build.”

ABC News