BP of the UK has signed a long-term LNG supply deal worth $18 billion with China National Offshore Oil Corp., with the announcement coinciding with an official visit to London by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
Lydall Performance Materials, a division of Lydall Inc. of the US, said it launched a new product addition to its cryogenic insulation range for use in the LNG industry.
Royal Dutch Shell said it signed agreements to sell 156.5 million shares in Australia's main LNG producer, Woodside Petroleum, for US$5 billion as new Shell Chief Executive Ben van Beurden refocuses the Anglo-Dutch company's investments.
Legendary US oilman and LNG advocate T. Boone Pickens attended a ceremony as a guest as Kinetrex Energy opened its second US Midwest LNG facility at Beech Grove, near Indianapolis.
The BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2014 said LNG's share of the global natural gas trade declined slightly to 31.4 percent as trade grew by just 1.8 percent, well below the historical average of 5.2 percent.
Geveran Trading, controlled by trusts established by the Norwegian shipping tycoon John Fredriksen of Golar LNG for the benefit of his immediate family, has purchased 12.6 million additional shares in the previously troubled Floating LNG developer Flex LNG of Norway.
Canada has taken a step closer to signing a Free Trade Agreement with South Korea, the world's second-largest LNG buyer, and a potential customer and investor in liquefaction projects, particularly in the province of British Columbia.
Cheniere Energy's Corpus Christi LNG export project took a major step towards approval as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission concluded that the proposed facility to be located in Texas at the north end of the La Quinta Channel would not pose a significant environmental risk.
Dutch company Titan LNG and Germany's E.ON Global Commodities have loaded their first truck of LNG fuel for the German Market at the only import terminal in the Netherlands, Gate LNG in Rotterdam.
Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT), a world leader in the design of LNG membrane containment systems for maritime transportation and storage, and Oman Drydock Co. of the sultanate of Oman located in the Arabian peninsula, have signed a technical services agreement.