The Australian-run Bear Head LNG project in the Canadian Atlantic coast province of Nova Scotia said it had received final approval to proceed.
The Canadian province of British Columbia is scheduled to hold a news conference on May 20 concerning a development agreement with the Pacific NorthWest LNG venture led by Malaysian state energy company Petronas at a time when the project is under pressure to move location or cancel its plans.
Sulawesi is a K-shaped island north-east of Java and the location of the world’s newest LNG plant, the first joint liquefaction project involving Indonesia, Japan and South Korea and set to come on stream soon.
Smit Lamnalco, the Dutch-based towage and marine services provider, has taken delivery of the "SL Wiggins Island", the fifth and final tug purpose-built at Sanmar Shipyard in Turkey to service three LNG export terminals in the Port of Gladstone on Australia's east coast.
Strom Inc. has filed an application with the US Department of Energy to export LNG for 25 years in containers from a proposed liquefaction facility at Crystal River on Florida's Gulf Coast to nations without a Free Trade Agreement with the US.
DNV GL, the largest European marine classification society, said it had developed a new unmanned floating liquefied natural gas concept that overcomes many of the challenges currently faced by those looking to unlock the potential of remote offshore gas fields.
Japanese electric utilities used 3.97 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas in April compared with 4.21MT in the same month a year ago, down 5.7 percent, and were also using much less thermal coal and oil for generating power.
Australian engineering and project contractor Clough Ltd. said its US-based LNG consulting subsidiary CH-IV was selected to fulfil the roll of owner's engineer for the engineering, procurement and construction phase of the Magnolia LNG project in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
US energy company Anadarko Petroleum awarded the engineering contract to a US-Japanese-Italian joint venture to develop the world's largest single onshore liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique with a potential capacity of up to 50 milllion tonnes per annum.
UGI Corp., the US natural gas distributor and utility company, said it planned to build a liquefied natural gas production facility in northern Pennsylvania that will use Marcellus Shale gas to provide LNG as fuel for the domestic market.