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LNG Canada, the export project being developed by Royal Dutch Shell and three Asian companies including PetroChina, has signed an agreement with a Quebec-based company to build employee housing near the project site in Kitimat, British Columbia.
Hoegh LNG of Norway said it signed a charter contract to supply a Floating Storage and Regasfication Unit for an import facility to be located in Concepcion Bay in Chile and which would receive US LNG cargoes and be the South American nation's third terminal.
The Canadian province of British Columbia, trying to push forward with more than a dozen large-scale liquefied natural gas projects, has pointed out to opponents of LNG they should not forget the global environmental benefits that will help nations such as China and India displace dirty fuels.
Pieridae Energy has received a 20-year permit to export pipeline natural gas from the US to Canada where it will be processed into LNG and re-exported from a liquefaction plant being constructed at Goldboro in Nova Scotia.
Jordan has become the fourth Arab nation to deploy a Floating Storage and Regasification vessel as a liquefied natural gas import facility.
Japanese liquefied natural gas imports dropped 8.5 percent last month and prices were 35 percent less than in the same month a year ago, according to trade figures just published by the government.
The largest buyer of LNG in Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said it would team up with Thailand's state power company in the procurement and shipment of liquefied natural gas.
Lloyd's Register, the 255-year-old UK marine classification society, has named Alastair Marsh as its new Chief Executive to succeed Richard Sadler at the end of 2015.
US major ExxonMobil and its Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil Resources are advancing with their plans for their LNG export project near the Port of Prince Rupert, where a liquefaction plant is proposed with output of up to 30 million tonnes per annum.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has become the world leader in Floating Storage and Regasifaction Units as LNG import facilities, though onshore import terminals will soon be built after the delivery of two more FSRUs to Egypt and Jordan.