The Australia's federal court has granted an injunction against a construction union and more than 70 workers taking part in picketing and protests at three LNG projects being built alongside each other on Curtis Island near the port of Gladstone in Queensland.
Australia's LNG Ltd, the developer of the Bear Head LNG export project in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, has been awarded two Canadian patents for inventions used in building LNG plants,
Hoegh LNG Partners, the regasification unit floated as a spin-off of the Norwegian fleet owner and operator, was last trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $24.24 per share a week after its debut.
The US subsidiary of French LNG player GDF-Suez has signed a purchase agreement with Gaz Metro, the largest natural gas supplier in the Canadian province of Quebec, to receive LNG by truck to meet peak winter demand in New England.
An LNG import-export project in the US northeast state of Maine has entered the pre-filing environmental review process with regulators for a facility planning to use feed-gas from both the US and Canada.
Origin Energy, the feed-gas provider and partner of ConocoPhillips in the Australian Pacific LNG project, has completed the acquisition of a 40 per cent interest in two offshore exploration permits in the Browse Basin that may open up other LNG venture opportunities.
Inpex Corp. of Japan has received an environmental permit from Indonesia for the Abadi Floating LNG venture in the Arafura Sea being developed with Royal Dutch Shell.
RasGas, one of Qatar's LNG production companies, has held meetings with key representatives from the Qatari General Directorate of Civil Defence amid ongoing concerns about security in the Gulf region.
InterOil Corp., the New York-listed company developing a second LNG project for Papua New Guinea, has named former BG Group Chief Executive Chris Finlayson as its new Chairman to help build up operations including liquefaction.
Another advance has been made by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Excelerate Energy's Floating LNG import facility project planned for the US territory of Puerto Rico in the northeast Caribbean.