Svitzer, the Denmark-based towage company, has won a 10-year contract to provide tugs and other marine services to the Ichthys LNG export project being developed by Japan's Inpex Corp. and France's Total in the northern Australian port of Darwin.
French LNG and energy project engineering company Technip said there was no truth in reports that it was in discussions aimed at merging with Houston-based US competitor FMC Technologies.
Canada has started the first use of liquefied natural gas to fuel trucks at one of the country's largest open-cast mining operations in the province of British Columbia, backed by utility and fuel provider FortisBC.
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Wood Group of the UK has won its second front-end engineering design contract for the proposed Browse floating liquefied natural gas development offshore Western Australia involving Woodside petroleum and oil majors.
Ophir Energy of the UK said it had signed six preliminary agreements for the sale of cargoes from its Fortuna Floating LNG project offshore Equatorial Guinea in West Africa.
The Japanese government said the average price of spot liquefied natural gas cargoes imported into Japan last month was $7.50 per million British thermal units compared with $14.30 per MMBtu in the same month a year ago, a fall of $6.80 per MMBtu, or 47.5 percent.
Evergas, the Danish shipping company with a fleet of 25 small-scale carriers, has ordered four larger product tankers with two more on option to be built at a Chinese shipyard to free up its smaller vessels for the liquefied natural gas trade.
Veresen Chief Executive Don Althoff said his company's Jordan Cove LNG export project in the northwest US state of Oregon was still on course for a final investment decision in the second half of 2016 and listed the main reasons why the venture would go ahead.
Delek Group, the Israeli natural gas and LNG developer in the East Mediterranean, said its subsidiaries are still pursuing a full agreement to supply Egypt from the Leviathan natural gas field after signing a preliminary accord.