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Woodside Petroleum said it was continuing with efforts to restore production at Australia's largest LNG plant, the  North West Shelf facility at Karratha in Western Australia, following a loss of power on May 5.
TransCanada said it received the first two permits from the British Columbia Oil and Gas Commission approving construction of two sections of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline along 250 kilometres of the route to bring shale-gas from inland to LNG plants on the Pacific Coast.
The Florida-based US shipping company Crowley Maritime Corp. is making further investments in liquefied natural gas-powered shipping services between the mainland and the US territory in the northeast Caribbean starting in 2017.
Liquefied natural gas shipped to northwestern Europe's regasification terminals in the UK, Belgium, and the Netherlands more than doubled in the first quarter of 2015 because of reduced demand in Asia.
The state of Western Australia has expressed safety concerns in a report by legislators about the planned Browse Floating LNG project and the Prelude FLNG venture because of plans to keep men onboard during cyclones.
Engie, the French utility and LNG player formerly known as GDF-Suez, has pledged to continue operations at its oldest LNG import terminal for Algerian cargoes located near Marseilles and called Fos Tonkin.
Hokuriku Electric Power, a supplier of electricity to the central part of Japan, has signed its first agreement to purchase liquefied natural gas from the Malaysia LNG plant of state energy company Petronas.
IM Skaugen, the Norwegian operator of LNG carriers and other vessels, narrowed its losses in the first-quarter though the recovery in its results was curtailed by the prevailing over-capacity within the small-scale and mid-scale shipping sectors.
A native North American group in British Columbia is continuing meetings about having the Petronas-led Pacific Northwest liquefied natural gas project near its traditional fishing grounds and will hold a final vote on the issue on May 12.
Eni Chief Executive Claudio Descalzi has met in the Mozambican capital Maputo with the nation's President Filipe Nyusi to discuss the Italian energy company's plans for liquefied natural gas projects.