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UK shipping brokerage Clarksons, which last year completed the takeover of Norwegian broker and investment bank Platou ASA, reported a 9 percent drop in earnings per share amid “unprecedented challenges” in 2015, though with building blocks in place for a more positive market.
Wartsila Corp., the Finland-based maker of propulsion systems for the liquefied natural gas carrier fleet as well as LNG-fueled engines, has admitted that internal audits reveal “deviations in a limited number of fuel consumption tests”.
Australian company Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd  has extended its lease for the Fisherman’s Landing LNG project site located in Gladstone in the state of Queensland where three other coal-seam-gas-to-LNG projects have been built.
Malaysian energy company Petronas has held a naming ceremony for the floating liquefied natural gas production unit that will be the first to operate in the world when deployed offhsore Sarawak later in 2016.
Clean Energy Fuels Corp., the US builder of natural gas filling stations and a fuel supplier to the trucking industry, delivered 308.5 million gallons last year, a more than 16 percent surge from the 265 million gallons sold the previous year.
US shipping group Crowley has applied to the Canadian National Energy Board for an export permit to ship LNG south by truck, barge or ship from small-scale liquefaction plants currently operating or being expanded in Canada.
Djibouti, the small Horn of Africa nation and former French colony on the southern side of the Gulf of Aden, has started a $5 billion liquefied natural gas export project with backing from a powerful industrial group in China and using feed-gas imported from neighbouring Ethiopia by pipeline.
The United States said it was keen to support the development of a liquefied natural gas import terminal in Croatia, either a floating facility or an onshore plant located on the island of Krk in the northern Adriatic Sea.
ExxonMobil said that one of its 10 key projects coming on stream in 2016 was the Gorgon liquefied natural gas plant on Barrow Island in Western Australia, while from 2018 and beyond it had six other LNG projects in the pipeline as next-generation developments.
Australia Pacific LNG, one of three coal-seam-gas-to-LNG plants built in Queensland with shareholders ConocoPhillips, China’s Sinopec and Origin Energy, has marked its transition from project to full operations.