America’s shale-gas boom has put us in a position that would have been unimaginable a scant six years ago, racing to get our LNG plants retooled for exports so we can win the business of Japan, China, South Korea, and others before it goes to Australia, Canada or even Russia.
The BG Group Queensland Curtis LNG project said it brought its first feed-gas by pipeline from the Surat Basin coal-seam gas fields onto Curtis Island, near the port of Gladstone, where the liquefaction terminal is located.
ConocoPhillips has filed for a permit to resume LNG exports from its facility in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula that up until March 2013 had supplied Japanese utilities with cargoes for almost 45 years.
Free ReadBG Group, one of the world's leading LNG companies, has appointed retired Australian Labor Party politician and former Federal Minister for Resources and Energy Martin Ferguson to its board of directors. BG Chairman Andrew Gould said Ferguson's appointment as a non-executive director would bring to the UK company's boardroom added…
The Australian-led Magnolia US LNG export project in Louisiana has confirmed the appointment of French investment bank BNP Paribas as its advisor to help raise more than $1.5 billion in project financing.
Eos LNG, developer of a barge-based floating liquefaction facility at the Port of Brownsville in Texas, has signed a preliminary tolling agreement with VGS Group of India which is seeking supplies for an import facility it's planning at Kakinada in Eastern India.
GDF-Suez, the French LNG player, said it has increased its presence in the Asia-Pacific region by buying an exploration and production licence stake offshore Malaysia to find feed-gas to be marketed as LNG.
Chevron Corp. said the cost of developing the Australian Gorgon LNG venture on Barrow Island off Western Australia has risen by another $2 billion to $54Bln.
Lockheed Martin, the US defence and aerospace company that worked on the Space Shuttle programme, is now producing LNG storage tanks for a marine engines joint venture between Wartsila of Finland and Harvey Gulf International Marine of the US.
China National Petroleum Corp. said its Tangshan import terminal in the Caofeidian Industrial Zone in Hebei Province, southeast of Beijing, has started commercial deliveries of regasified LNG, completing the first phase of the project.