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Japanese LNG imports in March rose 3.9 percent with the biggest percentage increase from Russia, following slight declines in the first two months of the year and even as the country entered its seventh month without any nuclear power generation.
The Canadian National Energy Board approved an application for a 25-year export licence for the Triton LNG project involving Calgary-based Canadian energy company AltaGas and Idemitsu Kosan Co., Japan's third-largest refiner.
The Alaskan state legislature has approved a plan to join a huge LNG export project partnership with North Slope natural gas producers ExxonMobil, BP and ConocoPhillips, as well as pipeline company TransCanada, and valued at up to $65 billion.
Australian energy company Santos says the Papua Guinea LNG project jetty, LNG tanks and liquefaction plant are ready for start-up and the low-pressure flare has been lit to support drying of storage and loading systems.
Woodside Petroleum, the operator of two Australian LNG plants, said sales revenue for the quarter rose about 16 percent to US$1.6 billion due to additional volumes sold and higher realised prices for Pluto LNG as it also gave updates on LNG plans in the East Mediterranean and Canada.
Delek Group and its partners in the East Mediterranean Leviathan natural gas field, which will be the focus of LNG and other projects, have submitted a tender to supply the Greek-Cypriot authorities with pipeline gas that could free up supplies for a Cyprus LNG venture and eventually a trading hub.
Lockheed Martin, the maker of the external tanks for the US space shuttle, said its first LNG storage tank has moved from the assembly line to the shipyard for integration with the LNG propulsion system of Finland's Wartsila.
France's Technip and Heerema Marine Contractors of the Netherlands were awarded a lump-sum contract worth $3.5 billion by Total for the subsea engineering, procurement, construction and installation work for the Kaombo oil project offshore Angola that will also provide associated feed-gas for the southwest African nation's LNG plant.
China's small-scale LNG production capacity has witnessed spectacular growth in recent years and now amounts to around 17 million tonnes per annum of output by the end of 2014, according to a report just published.
British Columbia, the Canadian province developing multiple LNG projects, has signed what it called an historic agreement with China to deepen their trade and investment, including LNG and natural gas.