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BG Group, the UK LNG portfolio player that this week parted company with Chief Executive Chris Finlayson, said total first-quarter LNG operating profit was down 7 percent as no cargoes were shipped from Egypt.
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has released its final Environmental Impact Statement for the Cameron LNG export project and the affiliated interstate pipeline being constructed at Hackberry in Louisiana by Sempra Energy of California and its French and Japanese partners.
Royal Dutch Shell has raised its stake in the LNG Canada export project planned for near the port of Kitimat as its three Asian partners from China, Japan and South Korea formalized the joint venture agreement.
The Belgian Exmar shipping company and LNG fleet operator controlled by Nicolas Saverys posted an overall first-quarter operating loss of $3.5M compared with income of $50.8M in the first three months a year ago as it initiated new accounting rules.
Royal Dutch Shell said equity sales of LNG were 18 percent higher at 6.09 million tonnes for the first quarter compared with 5.1MT in the same quarter a year ago, reflecting higher offtake from the Repsol LNG business of almost one million tonnes.
Air Products, the US maker of technology and equipment for the LNG liquefaction process, signed an agreement with Japanese engineering and construction company, JGC Corp., to supply a Floating LNG project being developed offshore Malaysia by state energy company Petronas.
Pacific NorthWest LNG, the Canadian venture being developed by Malaysia's Petronas with Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. as a partner, has now taken China Petroleum and Chemicals Corp. (Sinopec) on board as a buyer of volumes and a stakeholder.
Leading European energy company Eni has opened Italy's first LNG fuelling station for heavy-duty trucks in the northern Italian city of Piacenza near Milan.
Chart Industries, the US LNG equipment maker, said first-quarter orders grew 11 percent in China and more than doubled in the US from a relatively weak fourth quarter.
LNG sales by Italy's Eni fell more than 11 percent in the quarter because of production problems in Egypt and Angola and as the company waits to develop its huge Mozambique LNG assets.