The number of small-scale North American liquefied natural gas export projects is growing and one such venture, American LNG Marketing, has just been awarded a permit from the Department of Energy to ship the fuel from a liquefaction facility to be completed six months from now in the Florida town…
The American Bureau of Shipping, the US classification society, has issued its latest guidance on safe fuel practices for vessels using liquefied natural gas in North America to support the transport sector's transition to more emission controls in port and near-shore areas.
Woodside Petroleum, the operator of two Australian LNG plants and with North American liquefaction plans, has signed four production-sharing contracts for the Asian nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, covering blocks in the Rakhine Basin.
Sempra Energy, the California-based utility and liquefied natural gas player, has started the regulatory process for a second US LNG export plant on the Gulf Coast at Port Arthur in Texas.
Sener, the Spanish engineering company, and an Indian joint venture partner have signed a contract for the turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of an LNG storage and regasification project in Jaigad, south of Mumbai in Western India.
Enagas of Spain, the largest European liquefied natural gas terminal operator, and Fluxys of Belgium, owner of the Zeebrugge LNG facility, have agreed jointly to acquire Swedegas, owner and operator of Sweden's gas pipeline network and a planned LNG terminal at the Swedish port of Gothenburg.
Energy and liquefied natural gas contractors, Technip of France and FMC Technologies Inc. of the US, have signed an agreement to form an alliance and launched a joint venture called Forsys Subsea to unite the capabilities of two subsea sector industry leaders.
Rolls-Royce, the UK company known for powering Airbus and Boeing passenger jets, has won a contract with Keppel Shipyard in Singapore to supply two all-gas engines for a floating liquefaction vessel owned by Golar LNG, the Norwegian LNG carrier fleet owner and project developer.
The Louisiana Liquefied Natural Gas Energy (LLNGE) export project proposed for the banks of the Mississippi River southeast of New Orleans has made more progress with regulators in the permitting process.
The United States Coast Guard has published two new policy documents on training and preferred facility locations to help develop LNG marine fuelling operations in North America.