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Qatargas, the main operating company along with RasGas in the development of Qatar’s LNG assets, said it shipped its 1,000th LNG cargo under its long-term sales and purchase agreements with its Japanese buyers.
Broadwater LNG, a $700 million project to be developed by Royal Dutch Shell and TransCanada Corp. in Long Island Sound, off New York State, has gained final environmental approval from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Sempra Energy is delaying construction of an LNG receiving terminal at Port Arthur, Texas, as other terminals are set to open in the Gulf of Mexico area this year and next and amid a tight global LNG supply market.
KBR said its venture with Australian firm WorleyParsons was awarded a contract option for the engineering, procurement management and construction management assistance services for Woodside Petroleum’s 's Pluto LNG offshore platform.
Contango Oil & Gas Co., a Houston-based, independent energy company, said it agreed to sell its 10 percent stake in Freeport LNG Development to an Asian utility.
StatoilHydro, the Norwegian operator of the Snøhvit LNG plant, said the facility at Hammerfest would only be starting production runs by mid-January because of technical problems and then only at 60 percent capacity.
US imports of LNG are estimated to have reached about 781 billion cubic feet in 2007, a 34 percent increase over the previous year, the US Energy Information Administration said.
KBR, the US LNG engineering and construction company, said the international joint venture working on developing Nigeria LNG’s Train 6 has completed the project at the West African producer’s liquefaction complex at Bonny Island.
Woodside Petroleum said it was working closely with customers to revise LNG cargo delivery schedules from its North West Shelf Venture after a shutdown at its Karratha gas plant in Western Australia at the weekend.
SNC-Lavalin, the Canadian LNG engineering firm, was chosen by Poland’s main natural gas distributer for front-end engineering and design work for the nation’s first LNG import terminal at Swinoujscie on the Baltic Coast.
