LNG

Technip, the French energy engineering company, said it made more progress on Floating LNG projects for Royal Dutch Shell and Malaysia's Petronas and the engineering and procurement phases continued to ramp up on the Yamal onshore LNG project in Arctic Russia.

ExxonMobil Chief Executive Rex Tillerson has made his case for natural gas and US LNG exports at the annual IHS CERA Week energy conference in Houston.

President Barack Obama's major energy review of his second term has been published with recommendations, though liquefied natural gas is also mentioned in a section about integrating North American energy markets rather than as a huge revenue earner from the global-reach of LNG cargoes and trade.

Australia Pacific LNG, the project run by US major ConocoPhillips, China's Sinopec and Australian energy firm Origin Energy, said it started the first of seven gas turbine generators designed to power its Curtis Island liquefaction facility near the Queensland port of Gladstone.