LNG

Chart Industries, the supplier of liquefaction, storage and fueling equipment to the LNG industry, said the United States Patent and Trademark Office had awarded the company a patent for its latest processing technology.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has opened its first public natural gas station in the northwest state of Oregon as part of its continued build-out of a countrywide network offering LNG fuel for the trucking industry.

Algeria, the second-largest natural gas supplier to Europe after Russia, has restarted its Skikda liquefied natural gas plant on the Mediterranean coast after a two-month planned maintenance as the North African nation aims to make 2017 a year of advances in its gas industry.

Alaska Governor Bill Walker said North Slope natural gas producer BP of the UK had joined ConocoPhillips in lending support and giving assurances to the Alaska LNG project, soon to be taken over by the state-backed Alaska Gasline Development Corp.