LNG

Exmar, the Belgian LNG carrier fleet owner and project developer, said it ordered a second Floating LNG liquefaction unit from the Wison Offshore and Marine shipyard in China.

BG Group's Queensland Curtis LNG plant, the first in the world using coal-seam gas, was set to load its first cargo on schedule after being completed at a cost of US$20.4 billion.

Wartsila, the Finnish LNG propulsion equipment maker and project supplier,  has been given full notice to proceed from Manga LNG for a small-scale import terminal in Tornio, Northern Finland.

Santos, the Australian LNG player with stakes in the Papua New Guinea LNG plant, the Darwin LNG plant in Australia and the Gladstone LNG project in Queensland, has announced it had secured an additional $1 billion bilateral bank loan facility over three years to underpin its financial status.