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The Pacific NorthWest LNG project in Canada being developed by Malaysia's Petronas faces a delay over changes made to the route of its $5-billion pipeline after the start of the environmental screening process.
In preparation for more precise data on shale-gas development and production for US LNG exports, the energy services company Baker Hughes Inc. is introducing a new index that goes beyond its well-known basic rig count.
Eni Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni has held talks in Algiers with the Algerian Minister of Energy Youcef Yousfi, with the Italian energy company seeking to help its long-term partner in developing LNG feed-gas and pipeline resources, especially from shale.
Australian energy company Santos said the Papua Guinea LNG project was 90 percent complete and just before production started Santos would review its capital management options.
Hyproc, the shipping arm of Algeria's Sonatrach and operator of seven LNG carriers with membrane tanks, and French LNG tank technology company GTT have renewed their technical services agreement after more than 40 years of close collaboration.
Australian LNG developer Santos has announced its second natural gas discovery in a week in the prolific Carnarvon Basin offshore Western Australia and said the feed-gas could be available for existing third-party LNG infrastructure.
It was called Neptune LNG, after the Roman god of the sea, but became one of the most ill-fated projects in maritime trading. Even Neptune did not foresee the shale gale that hit America.
Woodside, the Australian LNG producer, said output dropped 8.6 percent in the second quarter compared with the previous three months of 2013 due to planned maintenance shutdowns at its North West Shelf and Pluto LNG plants  in Western Australia and a subsequent unplanned Pluto LNG outage.
The global LNG carrier charter market sentiment remains positive as Cheniere took three vessels on mid-term charter, plus options, according to the latest report from a UK maritime consultant.
Gothenburg, the largest port in the Nordic region, has won a tranche of European Union funding for an open-access LNG import terminal that is expected to be built by 2015.