LNG Ltd, the Australian export project company with two North American liquefaction plants under development, has named a new board member whose qualifications include being the second longest-serving Commissioner in the history of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The United States Government said one of the implications of the US LNG project build-out is that around 100 LNG carriers are expected to be needed to ship America's natural gas surplus to customers around the world.
Australian energy company Santos, with stakes in three Asia-Pacific LNG export plants, has said new Chief Executive Kevin Gallagher would join the company on February 1, 2016.
Alaska Governor Bill Walker has thanked BP of the UK and US major ConocoPhillips for committing to sign and make public a Gas Availability Agreement for their share of North Slope natural gas for use in the Alaska LNG project.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. of the US and Italy's Eni have reached an operating agreement concerning the development of natural gas reservoirs straddling their separate licence areas in the Rovuma Basin offshore Mozambique that will provide feed-gas for several LNG projects.
The collaboration in LNG shipping between Mitsui OSK Lines of Japan and a Chinese shipyard is progressing smoothly with the delivery of a third vessel and with seven others awaited.
Norway is planning the first licencing round since 1994 involving the opening of new acreage on the Norwegian continental shelf, near the Snohvit field that provides feed-gas for Europe's only baseload LNG plant.
PetroChina said it would put into operation in early 2016 the second phase of expansion of the Dalian LNG receiving terminal project in Northeast China, one of the few Chinese import facilities with carrier re-loading capability.
The Gulf state of Bahrain has awarded the contract for its first liquefied natural gas import facility to three companies, with Teekay LNG chosen to provide the LNG carrier that will be deployed as a floating storage unit.
Poland's first liquefied natural gas import terminal at Swinoujscie on the Baltic coast will receive its first cargo from Qatar on December 9 so that engineers can carry out the cool-down process for commercial operations to start in the first quarter of 2016.