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Technip said it appointed Bernard di Tullio as President and Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for worldwide operations as the French energy and LNG engineering firm also announced an operational reorganization.

Woodside Petroleum said it planned to start the construction of the Pluto LNG project after receiving final approval from the authorities.

EGL, a Switzerland-based European energy trading group, said it had entered the LNG cargo trading business and its first cargo would be delivered soon to a regasification terminal in Spain.

The $11-billion Gorgon LNG venture planned for Barrow Island, offshore northwest Australia, by Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell received Federal government environmental approval.

Marathon Oil Corp. said its Equatorial Guinea and Alaska LNG operations combined are estimated to have sold 6,180 metric tonnes per day of LNG in the third quarter of 2007,  more than previously reported.

“I would just like those in the audience to raise their hands who think Gazprom is not a reliable supplier?” a senior executive of the Russian natural gas monopoly asked 350 West European gas business executives at a conference today in Germany. No one raised their hand.

Qatar Gas Transport Co (Nakilat), the shipping company of the world’s largest LNG producer, more than doubled net profit to September from funds invested to pay for more than 50 LNG carriers it has ordered.

UK workplace safety regulators are conducting an investigation at ExxonMobil’s South Hook LNG terminal in Wales after a worker was killed and seven others had to be rescued when a maintenance platform collapsed alongside a jetty at Milford Haven port.

Two LNG carriers built by Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the Gazprom-run Sakhalin II  LNG project in the Russian Far East have been named at a ceremony in Nagasaki, southern Japan.

French energy major Total announced the formation of a new company called Adria LNG to study the construction of a regasification terminal on an island off the Adriatic coast of Croatia.