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Angola LNG, the long-awaited addition to global LNG volumes that was more than a year late coming on stream, has shut down for maintenance and will further ramp up expected spot cargo prices through January 2014 because of additional demand from China.
The Magnolia LNG project in Louisiana, the only US export venture being developed by an Australian company, has signed a liquefaction tolling agreement with a Canadian equity fund with plans to import cargoes into the UK in Northwest England.
Gazprom Chairman Alexei Miller said the possibility of delivering LNG by sea to Russia's Kaliningrad enclave in the Baltic region should be possible by 2018 and will substantially increase the energy security of the region.
Exmar, the Belgian LNG shipping fleet owner and project developer, has submitted papers to the US Securities and Exchange Commission connected with a sale of shares to investment in an initial public offering in New York for a master limited partnership that will be spun off from the main company…
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said its scheduled completion of the environmental impact statement of the Sempra Energy-owned Cameron LNG project in Louisiana has been delayed by five months just as the venture moves to the top of the US Energy Department export permit decision list.
The Premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia, Christy Clark, is on a trade mission to the Far East and at the first stop in China was given a tour of the Rudong LNG import terminal whose owners have a stake in a liquefaction project in Canada. 
The US Department of Energy approved two LNG export permits for Free Trade Agreement countries in the Caribbean and Central America, one for exports to Honduras and another in which the end-user has not yet been named.
Damen Shiprepair in the French port of Brest has received its seventh LNG carrier booking for drydock maintenance and repair as the Algerian-operated LNG carrier, the "Bachir Chihani", heads for the yard.
LNG is to be available as a marine fuel in the German ports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven by 2015 through the Bomin Linde joint venture company developing two terminals.
The US Department of Energy has 16 separate permit applications and 20 in all for exports to nations such as Japan and China left on its order of precedence, with Sempra Energy's Cameron LNG in Louisiana next in line, and with four additional permit requests listed for Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass project.