Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines said it ordered four new LNG carriers after signing pre-charter agreements with ExxonMobil for the Gorgon LNG project in Australia and the ExxonMobil-led Papua New Guinea LNG venture.

Polskie LNG, the company building Poland’s first LNG import terminal on the Baltic coast, said it arranged more than $1 billion in financing from the European development bank and 10 other financial institutions.

The US Elba Island LNG import terminal near Savannah, Georgia, has begun operating its expanded regasification and send-out facilities, which will benefit new capacity holder Royal Dutch Shell.

Fluor Corp. said Samsung C&T Corp, had awarded it an engineering and related management services contract for the Singapore LNG terminal project at Singapore's Jurong Island.

Technip, the French LNG engineering firm, in a joint venture with Japan’s Chiyoda, was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract for the Plateau Maintenance Project by the Qatar Liquefied Gas Co. plant Qatargas I.

Australia Pacific LNG, owned by ConocoPhillips and Origin Energy, and BG Group’s Queensland Gas Co. said they agreed a framework for the development of jointly owned coal-seam-gas resources for their separate CSG-to-LNG projects in Australia.

Woodside Energy said the pre-development of the Sunrise LNG project continued to make progress, with “rigorous evaluations” having been completed of the Darwin LNG and Floating LNG options.

Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Co. announced the formal start-up of RasGas Train 7, the latest of the 7.8 million tonnes per annum super-Train facilities developed in Qatar.

Bechtel, the leading LNG liquefaction plant contractor, said it was proceeding to order long-lead equipment after signing a multibillion-dollar engineering, procurement and construction contract for BG Group’s Queensland Curtis coal-seam-gas-to-LNG project at the port of Gladstone in eastern Australia.

The first LNG shipment from Yemen to the Everett LNG import terminal in Boston has arrived on board the 147,700 cubic metres capacity LNG carrier, the “Maran Gas Cornis”, following months of security debates about cargoes from the Gulf of Aden.