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NextDecade, a company run by former Royal Dutch Shell LNG executive Kathleen Eisbrenner, has formally filed its applications with the regulators to build the Rio Grande LNG export plant near the port of Brownsville in Texas.
Venture Global LNG, a Washington DC-based company, said it raised additional equity investments for the two liquefaction and LNG export plants it is developing in Louisiana, one at Plaquemines on the banks of the Mississippi River and a second near the Calcasieu Ship Channel.
China has become the world's largest LNG and natural gas-fueled vehicle market, moving up in five years from the sixth place it held in 2011, though the oil price slump has now severely hit the economics and growth of the Chinese LNG and gas fuel market.
The US subsidiary of French energy company Total has asked for more time to put together a possible appeal against fines of $216.6 million from the US Federal Energy Commission’s Office of Enforcement that found Total and two of its traders guilty of manipulating natural gas markets.
Bureau Veritas, the French classification society, said it reinforced its position in marine services where recent work included liquefied natural gas bunkering ship design, with the acquisition of a leading UK-based consultancy, TMC Marine Ltd.
TransCanada Corp., the Calgary-based builder of pipelines including to transport feed-gas for Canadian LNG projects, is re-filing its $13 billion transaction to buy Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. with the US Federal Trade Commission under the review process.
Royal Dutch Shell said its first-quarter LNG sales volumes were 12.29 million tonnes, putting the company on track for around 48MT of LNG sales for the whole of 2016 that will demonstrate its more dominant position in the market after the take-over of BG Group of the UK.
Engie’s new Chief Executive Isabelle Kocher has named a new group executive committee for the French energy company, including two liquefied natural gas executives, as it launches an ambitious transformation plan.
Australian energy company and major LNG stakeholder Santos said natural gas was the only fuel at present that could help clean up Asia and control carbon emissions, including in the region’s largest economy, China.
Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French owner of liquefied natural gas maritime and other storage tank technologies, has signed a contract to train personnel to operate the first LNG bunkering barge to operate in the US.