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Algerian energy company Sonatrach said it has never had problems selling its LNG and plans to increase shipments to the Asia-Pacific region after the completion of an expansion at its Skikda plant and the opening of another new Train later this year.
Registro Italiano Navale, the Italian-based international classification society known as RINA, has been authorised by the Danish Maritime Authority to act on its behalf to carry out plan approval and surveillance during construction on board ships using LNG as marine fuel.
Norwegian energy company Statoil and joint venture partner ExxonMobil in exploration and production offshore the East African state of Tanzania have given their first results from drill stem test in the Block 2 discoveries.
Pacific NorthWest LNG, the Canadian venture controlled by Malaysia's Petronas with Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. as a key investors and with at least two other additional partners lining up, has formally started its environmental review process.
Technip, the French LNG and energy engineering company, was awarded a contract by Total for modification work at the liquefaction plant in the sultanate of Brunei to boost output and construction of a new feed-gas pipeline.
Woodside Petroleum, the largest Australian LNG producer, has signed a medium-term sales and purchase agreement (SPA) with Korea Gas Corp. for the supply of up to 2.2 million tonnes of cargoes over a three-year period starting in April.
BG Group Australian subsidiary QGC, developer of the Queensland Curtis coal-seam-gas-to-LNG project, has awarded a key rig contract linked to its feed-gas needs in the state's CSG-rich Surat Basin.
French LNG player GDF-Suez had mostly LNG as the bright spot in its latest earnings and said it was seeking to develop its LNG supply portfolio from 16 million tonnes per annum to 20 MTPA by 2020 as its revenues took a huge hit from asset write-downs.
Japanese utilities Osaka Gas and Chubu Electric Power said they would each invest about $600 million over the next four years to buy a 25 percent stake each in one of three liquefaction Trains being built at the Freeport LNG plant at Quintana Island in Texas, being developed by US energy tycoon…
Kentz Corp., the London-listed global engineering company, won a US$640 million joint venture contract in Australia for the structural, mechanical and piping construction for the Ichthys project onshore LNG facilities in Darwin.