Yemen LNG security "good" despite militant hand grenade attack

SINGAPORE, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Yemen LNG, a liquefied natural gas venture led by France's Total (TOTF.PA), is still secure despite a recent militant attack on one of the company's pipelines, an executive with the project said.

"The security arrangement is fundamentally good," Francois Rafin, general manager of Yemen LNG said on Tuesday on the sidelines of the World LNG Asia Pacific Summit being held in Singapore.

"Certainly it does not affect the future of the project-- and it does not affect the present either," Rafin said, adding there was only minor damage.

Unknown militants lobbed hand grenades at a LNG pipeline that runs through Yemen's southern province of Maarib to an export point in Shabwa earlier this month. [ID:nLDE68C1SA]

Production however was not affected as the hand grenades landed metres away from the pipeline.

Yemen LNG is currently guarded by both company and government security, Rafin said. (Reporting by Rebekah Kebede; Editing by Ed Lane)