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Qatari LNG production company RasGas said it had delivered its first cargo to the newest French import terminal in the Channel port of Dunkirk as the facility ramps up its regasification capabilities for the European winter season.
ExxonMobil, the US major and a shareholder in the world's largest liquefied natural gas supply complex in Qatar, has joined a UK project to develop LNG bunkering infrastructure as well as storage and technical support in the north of Scotland.
Modec Inc., the Japanese maker of oil and natural gas production platforms and other energy industry equipment, has developed a floating power plant that uses liquefied natural gas as the fuel for electricity generation.
The main Spanish natural gas and LNG companies, Enagas and Gas Natural Fenosa, have launched a project with the state-run railway company Renfe to run Europe’s first locomotives powered by LNG.
The state government of the southeast Australian state of Victoria has introduced legislation to permanently ban hydraulic fracturing for unconventional natural gas, coal-seam gas and oil and will put a cap on any compensation paid to energy companies with current licences.
LNG importer France said record levels of demand have been placed on its gas-fired power plants to support the electricity network and while it expects smooth operations this winter things could become “tricky” as the months progress.
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange and the Singapore Exchange (SGX) have signed an agreement to cooperate in developing the liquefied natural gas derivatives and futures market in Asia.
Oil Search, the Australian-listed energy company with a stake in Papua New Guinea LNG and in natural gas resources to underpin a second project, said annualized production at the liquefaction facility near Port Moresby amounted to 89 cargoes shipped at the end of October.
Eni Chief Executive Claudio Descalzi has held talks in the Mozambique capital Maputo with the southeast African nation’s President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi centred on the Italian energy company’s approval of investment in the Coral South floating LNG project.
US LNG data shows the nation has become a net exporter of natural gas, during some days of the month, driven by strengthening exports from the Sabine Pass plant where three Trains have been completed. The situation has arisen early because of reduced US pipeline imports from Canada and steady…