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The Royal Dutch Shell Prelude Floating LNG hull to be deployed offshore Australia has been moved out of the dry dock at the Samsung Heavy Industries yard in Geoje, South Korea.
The US Department of Energy has approved export permits for Free Trade Agreement nations to two companies, Eos LNG and Barca LNG who will jointly operate from a proposed floating liquefaction and storage barge at the Port of Brownsville in Texas.
BG Group's Australian subsidiary QGC, developer of the Queensland Curtis coal-seam-gas-to-LNG project, said the company and its contractors are currently employing 14,500 people as work gathers pace to meet the completion deadline in 2014.
Lloyd's Register in China and Nantong Cosco KHI Ship Engineering have agreed to the joint development of an LNG-fuelled ship design.
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation said the importance of power generation from LNG is increasing rapidly as a result of suspended operations at Japan's nuclear power plants and there is an urgency for investment in liquefaction projects using shale and coal-seam gas.
Cheniere Energy Inc., developer of the Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi US LNG export projects, said one of its subsidiaries, Cheniere Energy Partners, has started an initial public offering of 30 million common shares.
China National Offshore Oil Corp. and its two Japanese partners in the Aurora LNG project in Canada have applied for a permit to export up to 24 million tonnes per annum of cargoes over a 25-year period.
Japan's largest LNG carrier companies, Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, say they plan to order about 90 new LNG carriers worth about $18 billion.
British Columbia Premier Chirsty Clark has opened the Canada-Korea Natural Gas Forum in Seoul as the province with plans for 10 liquefaction projects builds up relationships in Asia with a tour of the main LNG-buying nations.
Gazprom Marketing & Trade and an LNG unit of the Russian natural gas giant made their first ever maritime vessel inspections conducted by the group.