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Canada’s largest private utility FortisBC is eager to find alternative offtakers from its Tilbury LNG facility after a deal with Hawaiian Electric faltered. Expansion of the Tilbury site is now at risk - the timeline will be pushed back, if no alternative buyer can be found. 
Yamal LNG, a flagship liquefaction project in the Russian Arctic, will have uninterrupted power supply through 50 of AEG Power’s Protect 8 three-phase units, based on double-conversion/topology. First LNG production at the Novatek-led project is targeted in 2017.
Spain has received its first US liquefied natural gas delivery on board the 138 000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Sestao Knutsen” and delivered to the Reganosa import terminal at the northwest port of Ferrol.
Australian energy company Santos, operator of the Gladstone LNG plant in Queensland and with stakes in two other production facilities in Darwin and Papua New Guinea, said first-half sales revenue was down 6 percent and the average LNG price received was just under $5.20 per million British thermal units.
Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French owner of liquefied natural gas maritime and other storage technologies, said first-half profit rose as it broadened its offerings in the growing LNG market.
AEG Power Solutions, a supplier of industrial electricity systems, was awarded a contract to supply electrical equipment that will insure uninterrupted power for the Yamal LNG project in Arctic Russia.
Japan relies on LNG imports for 97 percent of natural gas demand and the nation has built its pipelines primarily to connect LNG receiving terminals on the coast to high demand areas where there are 30 million residential, business and industrial users.
French energy and liquefied natural gas engineering company Technip said it was awarded a master services agreement for the US Monkey Island LNG export project in Louisiana.
Oil Search, the Australian-listed company that bid $2 billion for InterOil Corp. and its Papua New Guinea liquefied natural gas project assets, said it would not be trying to better a superior bid submitted by ExxonMobil Corp.
LNG Ltd., developer of two North American export projects and with a site in Australia to build a coal-seam-gas-to-LNG plant, has announced staff reductions as it aims to reduce fixed costs before its ventures come on stream.