Australia’s largest LNG plant operator Woodside posted an almost 31 percent plunge in liquefied natural gas revenue in the third quarter to US$727.4 million from $1.05 billion in the same three months a year ago.
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an order authorizing Cheniere Energy and its Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas export plant in Louisiana to introduce feed-gas and refrigerants for the initial commissioning phase of the second processing Train.
Mitsui Osk Lines, the Japanese shipping company involved in operating about 70 liquefied natural gas carriers, has established a new LNG management company in Hong Kong called MOL LNG Transport (Asia) Ltd.
Chevron Corp. said its Wheatstone venture in Western Australia has signed a natural gas agreement with Alinta Energy for the local domestic market in addition to current LNG supply agreements with Japanese utilities and at least one Chinese energy company.
Air Liquide, the French industrial gases company, said it had commissioned 12 biogas purification units to transform the gas made from waste into biomethane to inject it into the natural gas networks or turn it into liquefied natural gas for use as transportation fuel.
French utility and energy company Engie and the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co. (EGAS) have signed a cooperation agreement on liquefied natural gas imports to Egypt.
The US Department of Energy has authorized Flint Hills Resources, based in Wichita, Kansas, to export around 120,000 gallons per day of LNG over a 20-year period from an existing small-scale liquefaction facility in George West, Texas.
United Arab Shipping Co., Royal Dutch Shell and the world’s largest liquefied natural gas producer, Qatargas, have signed an agreement to jointly study projects related to the development of LNG as a marine fuel in the Middle East region.
The Australian LNG project developer of the medium-scale Magnolia export venture near Lake Charles, Louisiana, said it received its final permits from the US regulators.
China National Offshore Oil Corp. said it had launched its largest liquefied natural gas carrier, named the “Pan Asia” with 174,000 cubic metres capacity and one of four being constructed by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group to carry shipments mainly from the Queensland Curtis export plant in eastern Australia.