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The Queensland Curtis LNG project will be the first in the world to turn natural gas from coal seams into LNG when it comes on stream in under a year, and BG Group Chief Executive Chris Finlayson has visited the project to highlight the achievement.
Inpex Corp. celebrated the arrival of the first LNG carrier, the "Tangguh Foja", at the new Naoetsu LNG import terminal located in the port at Joetsu City and which now gives Japan more than 30 LNG regasification facilities and satellites.
Technip was awarded the front-end engineering and design contract for the BG Group US LNG export project at the existing LNG import terminal located in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said it entered into an agreement with ONGC Videsh Ltd. of India to sell a 10 percent interest in its Mozambique's Offshore Area 1 exploration licence, whose feed-gas will be part of one of the world's largest ever LNG projects, for $2.64 billion in cash.
US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said a major reason the US was on track to reduce carbon dioxide emissions was because of the surge in natural gas production opened up by hydraulic fracturing, the method used to extract shale gas.
Norway's Hoegh LNG has added two senior executives and reshuffled its business organisation as it seeks further expansion in the Floating LNG sector.
LNG imports to Japan last month rose 3.7 percent compared with the same month a year ago, reversing a decline in June because of seasonal temperature rises and  energy-saving measures.
Woodside Petroleum said its Pluto LNG continued to make a strong contribution to earnings as the Australian company also revealed it carried out the largest scheduled maintenance shutdown at the North West Shelf LNG plant, the oldest and largest in the country.
US companies Black & Veatch and Kiewit have completed the front-end engineering and design work and pre-construction planning for the Jordan Cove liquefaction project to be located in Coos Bay in the Pacific Northwest state of Oregon.
GasLog, the Monaco-based LNG carrier operator, has concluded new charter contracts with its largest customer, the LNG portfolio player BG Group of the UK.