Toho Gas, the Japanese utility and importer of LNG from nations such as Australia, Qatar, Indonesia and Malaysia, has added the US to its supply list after finalizing an agreement to buy three cargoes a year from the Cameron export plant being built in Louisiana by Sempra Energy of California.
The Japanese Port of Yokohama plans to set up the nation’s first liquefied natural gas bunkering operation under a proposal to promote more clean fuel use in the shipping industry.
Royal Dutch Shell, the biggest global liquefied natural gas market player, said the takeover of LNG portfolio company BG Group is re-shaping the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major and providing $1 billion in additional savings, while the company’s investments in new liquefaction projects would be slowing down.
The American Bureau of Shipping has joined forces with Greece’s Arista Shipping, two companies from Finland and French storage tank technology firm GTT in a joint development project for a dry bulk carrier concept that uses liquefied natural gas as fuel.
Angola LNG, one of the most troubled liquefaction plants ever built and operated by Chevron Corp., has resumed production and is shipping cargoes sold by international tender after a two-year shutdown.
Aker Solutions of Norway has won an order to supply key equipment for the development of Egypt’s largest offshore natural gas discovery being developed by Italian operator Eni as a gas hub for the East Mediterranean and ending the nation's need for LNG imports.
Amec Foster Wheeler, the UK-based energy engineering and construction company, has won a contract to build the first Indian LNG import and regasification terminal planned for the east coast of the country at the port of Ennore in the state of Tamil Nadu.
British Columbia Premier Christy Clark said she viewed her Asian trade mission as a success as it helped to promote the Pacific coast Canadian province as a future supplier of liquefied natural gas exports and other commodities and equipment.
Enagas, the Spanish transmission network and liquefied natural gas terminal operator, is advancing in the development of new services, including bunkering plans for shipping to promote the wider use of LNG and recently signed an agreement with the Port of Barcelona.
Noble Energy, the US company with natural gas assets and LNG plans offshore Israel, said the Israeli government has approved the development plan for the Leviathan project, the largest energy venture in the Eastern Mediterranean.