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Inpex Corp., the Japanese energy company and LNG project developer, announced the completion of the dredging programme in Darwin Harbour in the Northern Territory of Australia to accommodate higher shipping traffic from the Ichthys LNG venture.
Bechtel, the world's leading LNG engineering and construction company, said Brendan Bechtel will become President and Chief Operating Officer and a member of the board, restoring a family member to near the pinnacle of the privately-held San Francisco-based firm.
Australian LNG producer Woodside Petroleum has failed to gain shareholder support for its plan to buy back US$2.7 billion worth of its shares from Royal Dutch Shell.
Chart Industries, the US LNG equipment maker for small-scale and mid-scale LNG plants, said net sales for the second-quarter rose 3 percent as it won a Floating LNG contract.
Apache Corp the US energy company is pulling out of two LNG projects led by Chevron Corp, the Wheatstone venture in Australia and Kitimat LNG in Canada to concentrate on its exploration and projection business in North America.
LNG portfolio player, BG Group of the UK, posted a 44 percent increase in its second-quarter LNG business operating profit because of additional cargo deliveries and favourable realized prices.
Royal Dutch Shell said second-quarter sales of LNG increased 28 percent over the same quarter last year as its purchase of liquefaction assets from Spanish energy company Repsol fed through to the balance sheet.
Woodside Petroleum, the largest Australian LNG plant operator, has indicated that its plan to buy back US$2.68 billion worth of its shares from Royal Dutch Shell may not succeed as it remained short of the 75 percent shareholder approval needed.
US LNG engineer Chicago Bridge and Iron and Japan's Chiyoda Corp. were awarded a front-end engineering and design services contract for the Golden Pass LNG export project in Texas being developed by Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil.
The largest US LNG export project on the East Coast being developed by energy company Dominion to make use of feed-gas from the prolific Marcellus Shale and export cargoes to Japan and India is close to receiving final approval.