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Quoddy Bay LNG, the import terminal venture planned on a Native American reservation in the state of Maine, has had its application suspended by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for failing to provide specific information on project revisions.
StatoilHydro’s Snøhvit LNG project is unlikely to reach full production until the end of 2009 and faces temporary summer shutdowns over the next two years.
Zeebrugge LNG terminal in Belgium, soon to come under the ownership of the merged Gaz de France-Suez, has put its expanded facilities into operation and is now able to receive as many as 110 LNG cargoes a year.
Aker Solutions, the Norway-based contractor, has removed a $660 million joint venture engineering, procurement and construction contract for a US LNG terminal from its backlog because the company involved has failed to give notice to proceed.
Korea Gas Corp., one of the world’s largest corporate buyers of LNG and a terminal operator for 25 years, is currently helping China National Offshore Oil Corp. to bring into service its new Fujian LNG import terminal.
South Korea, the world’s second-largest LNG importer after Japan, paid an average 34 percent more for its LNG imports last month than it did a year ago as prices rose from $616 per tonne from $459 per tonne in the same month last year.
Hamworthy of the UK said it signed a contract with Golar LNG to supply a regasification system for the converted LNG carrier the Norwegian company will supply as an import terminal to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Lake Charles LNG import terminal on the US Gulf coast will shut down for upgrading work for about a month starting on May 22, just as two new terminals, Sabine Pass and Freeport, begin commercial operations.
French energy company Total said it was pleased the Cheniere Energy LNG terminal at Sabine Pass, Louisiana, has now come on stream as the facility will broaden its reach in the global market.
The Dubai authorities said they signed an LNG supply agreement for around 15 years with Qatargas and Royal Dutch Shell to receive supplies in the United Arab Emirates at a planned floating regasification and storage unit being chartered from Golar LNG for $450 million,
