The Japanese government-run LNG Producer-Consumer Conference 2016 is scheduled to take place in Tokyo on November 24 and will focus on moves to abolish destination clauses in contracts and facilitating LNG trading at the same time as improving energy security.
Italian energy company Eni said its board has authorized the investment for the first phase of the Coral South floating LNG project in the Rovuma Basin offshore Mozambique in southeast Africa.
Malaysian energy company Petronas said the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas production plant has received its first feed-gas from the Kanowit field it is deployed over in an area 180 kilometres offshore Sarawak and the commissioning process is well underway as the project advances towards start-up.
Petronet LNG, the Indian regasification terminal operator and importer, posted a drop in quarterly revenues to less than $1 billion, though its latest earnings still managed to boost its shares on the prospects of more imports and the company's involvement in a project for more LNG use in the country’s mass transportation system.
The US will have ample natural gas to divert to the export market as LNG now and in the future because of several issues such as its ability to post record storage numbers over the past 12 months that saw weekly inventories surpassing five-year highs in 48 weeks of the…
Hoegh LNG, the Norwegian fleet owner and floating storage and regasification unit charterer, posted a modest rise in third-quarter profits as the Latin American state of Colombia became an importer using the FSRU “Hoegh Grace” and a Chilean project prepared to take another ship.
Australian energy company Santos has signed an agreement in Papua New Guinea to buy a stake in an exploration licence from ExxonMobil and Oil Search, both shareholders in the PNG LNG plant and a second liquefaction venture planned for the Oceania nation.
Russia should be well placed to take advantage of the world’s rising needs for natural gas, including from its Yamal LNG project in Siberia, but the problems facing the country’s gas industry are as big as the size of its resources, the International Energy Agency said its 2016 World Energy…
The International Energy Agency questioned whether shale-gas well productivity gains in the US that will underpin growing liquefied natural gas production could be maintained at current levels in areas such as the Marcellus Shale in the northeast US.
Inter-regional natural gas and LNG trade is set to grow by 45 percent over the next 10 years and by 70 percent through 2040 as overcapacity is gradually absorbed, new players enter the stage, incumbents are challenged and the market rebalances.