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Sharjah, the third largest of the seven United Arab Emirates after Dubai and Abu Dhabi, has signed an accord with German utility and energy trading company Uniper for liquefied natural gas deliveries.
Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the France-based liquefied natural gas storage tank technology company, has signed a breakthrough agreement to market its onshore LNG storage tanks through a leading US operator.
US shipping line Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., operator of 46 liners, said its newest vessels on order would be powered by liquefied natural gas, joining rival Carnival Corp. in reducing emissions from fuel to meet stricter emissions standards in North America and Europe.
The newest export plant, the Gorgon facility on Barrow Island in Western Australia, shipped five cargoes last month as it continued to ramp up production while India emerged as a main target for shipments from some of Australia’s seven export facilities now operating.
KBR Inc., the US engineering and construction company, said it was chosen to carry out a feasibility study, including exploring the possible expansion of the Singapore LNG Corp, import terminal at the city state’s Jurong Island.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Registry, with many liquefied natural gas carriers on its books, has hit a significant landmark by attaining the status as the world's largest tanker fleet.
Australian energy and liquefied natural gas engineering group Cimic, better known by its former name of Leighton Holdings, is making a takeover bid for Sydney-based construction rival UGL worth A$524 million (US$400M) as the industry runs out of LNG projects.
Australia Pacific LNG, whose shareholders are ConocoPhillips, China’s Sinopec and local company Origin Energy, said it shipped its first cargo from the second processing Train that gives the plant a total nameplate capacity of 9 million tonnes per annum.
US small-scale distribution company NuBlu Energy has started construction of a liquefaction plant along the Mississippi River at Port Allen in Louisiana to supply high-horsepower fuel users in the region including inland waterway vessels.
The influential Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said it was continuing its global efforts to overhaul the liquefied natural gas trading market and recently took its message to a ministerial energy meeting hosted by Algeria, the North African LNG producer.