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Enagas, the Spanish LNG terminal and natural gas network owner, said it received Europe’s largest single LNG cargo so far when a Qatari Q-Flex carrier docked at the Cartagena terminal in southern Spain.
Royal Dutch Shell may use the floating liquefaction technology it is developing to make LNG at the Prelude gas discovery in the Browse basin offshore Western Australia.
Interbeton BV, the overseas operating company of the Dutch Royal BAM Group, said it was awarded a near $190 million joint venture contract to construct an LNG jetty berth for Woodside Petroleum’s planned Pluto LNG project in Northwest Australia.
The first Chinese-built LNG carrier was handed over five months behind schedule to China LNG Shipping to deliver cargoes from the Woodside Petroleum LNG terminal in Northwest Australia to China’s Dapeng import facility in Guangdong province.
Aker Kvaerner, the builder of LNG import terminals in the US and Europe and a leading global energy services company, has changed its name to Aker Solutions. The company had been known as Aker Kvaerner for 150 years.
KBR and its joint venture partner WorleyParsons have won further contract options for Woodside Petroleum’s North Rankin 2 project, bringing to $320 million the value of work they’ve been awarded to help in the production of more gas for the North West Shelf LNG venture.
Gasol, a London-based LNG development company, said it signed a heads of agreement with Canadian shipping company Teekay Corp. and two Africa-focused companies for possible LNG projects offshore West and Central Africa.
WorleyParsons, the Australia-based LNG and energy engineering and construction firm, has agreed to acquire Houston-based company Intec from the Dutch group Heerema for just over US$100 million, boosting its personnel by 500 at a time of skilled manpower shortages in the industry.
Crown Landing LNG, the import terminal project in New Jersey planned by BP of the UK, suffered a major setback when the US Supreme Court ruled that the neighbouring state of Delaware could veto the venture during the planning process.
Pertamina, Indonesia’s state energy company, has concluded an agreement with six Japanese companies under which LNG supplies would be cut as expected to one quarter of current levels from 2010-2011.
