Alaska Governor Bill Walker vetoed legislation restricting the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. from actively working on any development venture other than the Alaska LNG project.
ExxonMobil, the largest international energy major in the liquefied natural gas business, said the United States was at risk of losing economic opportunity and the ability to solidify its role as a global leader in energy production unless the government moves to approve LNG export projects.
Australian energy company Santos said it would still be spending A$900 million (US$703M) a year on the upstream of the Gladstone LNG export project in Queensland where the drilling and completion of 200 new wells would be required during each 12-month period through 2020.
GDF-Suez, the French utility and largest and longest-standing importer of liquefied natural gas from Algeria, announced a significant natural gas discovery in the North African country with partners including Repsol of Spain.
US regulators have drawn up a review schedule for the environmental permit process for the Oregon LNG export-import facility planned for the banks of the Columbia River near the town of Warrenton in the northwest US state.
Australian energy and LNG engineering company WorleyParsons has had to issue a statement to the stock exchange as its shares soared on takeover speculation.
Australian energy company Santos said its Gladstone LNG project in Queensland would come on stream around September 2015 instead of its more vague estimate of the second half of the year.
Emergency and incident response guidelines for the use of liquefied natural gas in European ports and inland waterways have been drawn up and are being distributed by leading ports such as Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Energy World Corp., the Australian-listed liquefied natural gas development company from Hong Kong, has made substantial progress on its Sengkang liquefaction plant in Indonesia and on the first LNG import terminal it is developing for the Philippines.
The US Army Corps of Engineers has caused its first major recent hold-up in an energy project by protesting aspects of the regulatory process being followed for the Jordan Cove export project in the northwest state of Oregon.