Bahrain Oil and Gas Holding Co. and Russia’s Gazprom have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on energy and liquefied natural gas during a visit to Moscow by the King of Bahrain and key ministers.
The $28-billion takeover by Enbridge of Spectra Energy makes these combined pipeline companies a new giant player in the emerging liquefied natural gas industry under construction or planned in North America.
UK maritime classification society Lloyd’s Register has been awarded a crucial role in oil and gas development strategies in Cyprus, where liquefied natural gas production is being considered onshore and offshore as well as pipeline exports.
General Electric Marine Solutions and China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding have received approval in principle from US classification society, the America Bureau of Shipping, for a jointly developed liquefied natural gas carrier to be powered by a GE propulsion system.
Carnival Corporation, the US cruise ship operator, has signed an agreement with the German and Finnish shipbuilders, Meyer Werft and Meyer Turku, to deliver three additional cruise vessels that will be fully powered by liquefied natural gas.
French energy company Engie and two Japanese partners have advanced their bunkering joint venture plans by launching Gas4Sea, a new brand to market liquefied natural gas as a marine fuel, starting soon in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
Australia Pacific LNG project in Queensland, owned by ConocoPhillips, China’s Sinopec and Origin Energy, has signed an agreement for APA Group, the nation’s biggest gas transporter, to build and operate a feed-gas pipeline connected to a key supply hub.
Lloyd’s Register, the UK-based classification society, and Hyundai Heavy Industries have signed a joint development project on ship-to-ship bunkering compatibility for liquefied natural gas re-fuelling.
Centrica, the UK utility and energy supply-to-trading company, said it signed a new five-year liquefied natural gas supply agreement with Qatargas for up to 2 million tonnes per annum of cargoes supplied to the Grain import terminal, located southeast of London.
Belgian shipping company Exmar said it was continuing to discuss the acquisition by Royal Vopak of the Netherlands, the global petroleum storage company, of its LNG Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) business.