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The Canadian National Energy Board has received yet another application for an LNG export plant. This time it has come from small-scale operator Woodfibre Natural Gas Ltd. that plans to construct a liquefaction plant with just over 2 million tonnes per annum of capacity.
Mitsui of Japan is completing its participation along the whole natural gas and LNG value chain in the US, with an LNG stake, shale-gas assets and now participation in a pipeline to Mexico.
Amid "unprecedented levels" of US domestic natural gas production, net imports of LNG and pipeline natural gas fell 23 percent last year, the US Energy Information Administration said in its annual trading review.
FMC Technologies, the energy and LNG projects equipment supplier, posted its strongest ever quarter for subsea orders on record as ventures moved forward worldwide.
Japanese LNG imports declined by just over 3 percent last month compared with the same month a year ago and prices also dropped compared with the previous month because of seasonal temperature rises and successful energy saving measures in Japan.
The Australian-led US LNG export project in Louisiana, Magnolia LNG, will use the under-utilized Kinder Morgan Louisiana Gas Pipeline located adjacent to the planned liquefaction plant to bring in feed-gas.
The top 10 US projects in order of precedence for decisions to export LNG to Non-Free Trade Agreement countries such as Japan are led by the BG Group Lake Charles project and the Dominion Cove Point venture in Maryland, while also including two Oregon projects in the top six.
Wood Group PSN of the UK has been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil to provide engineering and maintenance services to support the Papua New Guinea LNG project as it nears completion.
Cheniere Energy is behind schedule in its project to transform the Sabine Pass LNG facility in Louisiana into the first of the new wave of US liquefaction and export plants, with the first Train's completion now set for 2016 rather than 2015.
Qatargas has loaded its first ever LNG cargo for delivery to Malaysia, itself an LNG producer now needing imports as well because of rising domestic demand.