Canadian ministers and provincial British Columbia officials had signed an agreement with native North American First Nations to give them a role in the planning and environmental monitoring of the Pacific NorthWest LNG project proposed by Petronas of Malaysia.
Australian energy company Santos, which ships liquefied natural gas cargoes all over Asia from its stakes in three liquefaction and export plants, now wants to supply Sydney with more natural gas from its planned Narrabri Gas Project in New South Wales.
Gas Natural Fenosa, the Spain-based global energy company and utility, has used a jetty-side truck to fuel a ferry with liquefied natural gas at the Port of Barcelona for the first time.
Marubeni Corp., the Japanese trading house and liquefied natural gas player, said it was advancing with a gas-to-power project in Indonesia that will involve the deployment of a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to ship in LNG.
Chiyoda Corp. of Japan, one of the leading global liquefied natural gas engineering and construction companies, has taken a $335 million hit on the setting up of its first subsea business in 2016.
Gaztransport and Technigaz, the French maritime storage tank technology company, has received an order from Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea to equip a new LNG floating storage and regasification unit with its Mark III membrane containment system.
Origin Energy, a main shareholder in the Australia Pacific LNG plant near the port of Gladstone in the eastern state of Queensland, said the facility has shipped more than 80 cargoes to China and Japan since it came on stream a year ago.
The marine LNG fuel-gas-system manufacturing unit of Germany’s MAN Diesel and Turbo signed a contract with Sefine Shipyard in Turkey to deliver the equipment for an Italian ferry set to operate from 2018 on the route from Italy’s mainland to the island of Sicily.
Spot charter rates for liquefied natural gas carriers in the Atlantic Basin increased to around $45,000 per day in the fourth quarter, with around 275 short-term fixtures in the global LNG shipping sector in 2016, an increase of more than 50 percent.
Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Co. of the Philippines, the LNG infrastructure and modules supply company, has signed an accord to supply and import plant and cargoes for power stations in the East Godavari region of the state of Andhra Pradesh on the East Coast of India.