Ebara International Corp., based in the US state of Nevada, was recently contracted to supply Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea with marine ship sets for LNG carriers as it also named a key new executive.
The Elba Island liquefaction project in the state of Georgia, led by Royal Dutch Shell and US pipeline company Kinder Morgan, is making progress.
Gazprom Marketing and Trading, the London-based commodities unit of the Russian natural gas giant, said it signed an agreement with Canadian company, Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp., for free-on-board (FOB) cargoes from a Floating LNG project offshore the South American country of Colombia.
Chevron Corp. has filed with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to safeguard its contracted berthing slots at the Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Louisiana that is being transformed into the biggest export plant on the Gulf Coast by Cheniere Energy.
Anadarko Petroleum of the US achieved record US onshore sales volumes as it continued to develop its Mozambique LNG project from discoveries in what is known as Offshore Area 1 of the deepwater Rovuma Basin at the same time as cashing in some of its feed-gas assets in the southeast African nation.
Foster Wheeler, the US LNG engineering company with corporate headquarters in Switzerland, has expressed its satisfaction at being selected more than a month ago by Russian oil company Rosneft and US major ExxonMobil for a front-end engineering and design competition for a planned LNG project in the Russian Far East.
LNG Partners, a Houston-based company, is in a British Columbian court in Vancouver seeking time to reorganize its finances and continue to be part of the Canadian Douglas Channel LNG project in Kitimat.
The Gas Exporting Countries Forum, which groups some of the world's main LNG exporters such as Qatar and Nigeria and has been described as the natural gas industry's Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has elected an Iranian as its new secretary general.
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Energy., has placed the fully-subscribed Northeast Upgrade Project pipeline in service on schedule, providing additional takeaway capacity from the Marcellus shale area and boosting the LNG ambitions of Japanese player Mitsubishi Corp.
Pieridae Energy's planned Goldboro LNG export plant in the Canadian Atlantic Coast province of Nova Scotia has gone under environmental review that puts it on track to have a decision by February 2014.