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The US LNG industry’s main lobby group says urged California’s state legislators to oppose a bill that would require the State Energy Commission to undertake an additional study of the need for LNG in California.
McMoRan Exploration Co., said it was in discussions with potential LNG suppliers as well as natural gas marketers for its planned $1.4 billion Main Pass offshore import facility in the Gulf of Mexico.
Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. (CB&I) said it was awarded a $200 million contract by Southern LNG to expand its Elba Island import terminal near Savannah, Georgia.
Santos Ltd., the Australian energy company, said it aimed to spend US$6 billion to build a liquefied natural gas plant using coal seam gas and to export the LNG to foreign markets where prices are higher.
Gaz de France, one of Europe’s leading LNG buyers, said it appointed Rene Montaz-Rosset as Managing Director of GdF Britain, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the French group.
Centrica, the UK natural gas company, said it terminated a 15-year agreement with Malaysia’s Petronas for the delivery of LNG.
The Passamaquoddy Tribal Government of the Pleasant Point Native American Reservation in the state of Maine has officially informed the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of its support for the Quoddy Bay LNG project.
More details emerged Friday about the conditions for Total’s stake in Gazprom’s Shtokman LNG project and as expected, the terms are not what an energy company of Total’s stature would have demanded or at least expected in any other part of the world.
EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes and Algerian Energy Minister Chabil Khelil reached an agreement on clauses dealing with territorial restrictions and profit-sharing mechanisms in natural gas and LNG supply contracts involving companies in European Union countries and Algeria's Sonatrach.
Gazprom said it chose France's Total as its first partner for the Shtokman LNG and pipeline project in the Barents Sea that has been the centre of controversy over the past two years because of the Russian gas giant's handling of the partnership process.
