French liquefied natural gas terminal operator Elengy said it was studying the construction of additional truck-loading facilities at the Montoir-de-Bretagne import terminal on the Atlantic Coast and has invited expressions of interest in capacity by July 29.
Angola LNG, the troubled liquefaction plant in southwest Africa operated by Chevron Corp., has formally re-launched after a two-year shutdown with the arrival of a cargo in Brazil.
French energy and LNG engineering company Technip and US peer FMC Technologies said their pending merger has passed its anti-trust review in the US, satisfying one of the conditions of the transaction.
A Canadian LNG export project of Indonesian billionaire Sukanto Tanoto and his Singapore Pacific Oil and Gas company has been further boosted by the Squamish First Nation approving the pipeline to supply the feed-gas for the liquefaction plant aiming to ship cargoes to China.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has brought fraud charges against Breitling Energy Chief Executive Chris Faulkner, known as the “Frack Master” because of his championing of hydraulic fracturing that created the US shale-gas surplus to enable LNG exports.
Thousands of people watched the first vessel, especially renamed the “COSCO Shipping Panama”, inaugurate the $5.5 billion widening of the Panama Canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific basins and enabling larger ships such as LNG carriers to transit.
Woodside, the largest Australian liquefied natural gas plant operator, said it was proceeding with the Greater Enfield project along with joint venture partner, Japan’s Mitsui Exploration and Production.
US energy and utility company Dominion has filed a report with regulators on the progress of the Cove Point LNG export project in Chesapeake Bay in the state of Maryland, scheduled to come on stream in late 2017.
Russian natural gas giant Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the state-owned Chinese company with a stake in the Russian Yamal LNG project, have held talks in Beijing on the supply of more pipeline gas to the Chinese and greater cooperation on LNG and storage.
BP, the major global UK energy company and LNG player, has pledged to maintain its headquarters in London and work with Britain’s new status outside the European Union, while Anglo-Dutch company Royal Dutch Shell said it would maintain its large presence in the UK capital.