The gas sales agreement is expected to be effective by the second half of 2023, with deliveries from the West Natuna gas fields in Indonesia expected to start from 2024 for four years.

Sembcorp earlier in the day said it had started a process for a possible divestment of its waste management business and its energy from waste plant.

($1 = 1.3517 Singapore dollars)

(Reporting by Jaskiran Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi and Shounak Dasgupta)