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El Paso Corp., the US natural gas company, said it acquired a half share in the $1-billion LNG import terminal project in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and when it’s completed will import LNG from Angola in Southwest Africa.
The North West Shelf LNG project partners said they now have a Sales and Purchase Agreement with Japan’s fourth-largest power utility Kyushu Electric Power Co. for the supply of 730,000 tonnes per annum of LNG for eight years from April 2009.
Grenland Group of Norway said it signed a letter of intent with FMC Technologies, the maker of LNG marine loading arms and subsea systems, for the fabrication of structures that will be part of FMC’s delivery to Woodside Petroleum’s Pluto LNG project in Australia.
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is trying to get the Weaver’s Cove LNG project back on track after five years of delays by emphasizing to other government agencies that the venture is in the pubic interest of the people of New England.
Woodside Petroleum today officially launched the construction of its US$10 billion Pluto LNG project in Western Australia with an official ceremony at the site.
Aker Kvaerner, the Norwegian-based energy and LNG contractor, said it signed a frame agreement with Woodside Petroleum to become the Australian LNG producer’s preferred supplier of steel tube umbilicals.
Suez North America said it has become the first LNG company to begin using US mariners on board its LNG carriers calling at US ports.
Siemens, the German supplier of compressors for LNG plants, said it secured an order for four motor-driven main refrigerant compressors for liquefaction Trains to be installed in a planned LNG plant in Indonesia.
Malaysia LNG, a unit of state energy company Petronas, said it signed a 15-year deal with Osaka Gas to supply the Japanese utility with 920,000 tonnes per annum of LNG.
Golar LNG said it raised around $77 million from a share sale to help finance the purchase from Royal Dutch Shell of the LNG carrier “Granatina” which could be converted into a Floating Regasification and Storage Unit.
