The American Bureau of Shipping, the US classification society, announced that its registered fleet has surpassed 200 million gross tons, including numerous new LNG carriers.
Gazprom has outlined its LNG plans in the Far East with an assessment of the China LNG market and the future prospects for pipeline sales, with last year's LNG price in China put at an average $560 per tonne compared $472 per tonne the previous year.
A group of US senators is urging Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz to speed up approvals of LNG export projects as one US project developer sees not much more than four ventures being approved and built on the Gulf coast at Sabine Pass, Lake Charles, and Cameron LNG in Louisiana and Freeport…
Demaco, the Dutch specialist in cryogenic engineering, won an order to build the LNG pipelines for the largest regasification terminal being constructed in Scandinavia by Linde Group subsidiary Cryo AB for Norway's Skangass.
Wood Group Wagners has secured a A$10 million (US$9.2M) contract extension from the Gladstone coal-seam-gas-to-LNG project being developed in Queensland by Australian energy company Santos and partners.
A significant market could be at stake for the energy industry as LNG emerges as a bunker fuel for the global shipping industry. From Singapore to Stockholm preparations are being made to refuel ships with LNG.
The biggest UK expert on Royal Dutch Shell who knows the six previous Chief Executives says the new CEO Ben van Beurden is out of the top drawer as a businessman and will push the growing LNG division forward as a technocrat and trained engineer.
The European Investment Bank, the long-term lending institution of the European Union owned by its member states, is lending 87 million euros ($112m) to Lithuanian energy terminal company, Klaipedos Nafta, for the construction and operation of its new LNG import facility located in the Baltic port of Klaipeda.
Royal Dutch Shell has put the Dutch back into the company by nominating Netherlands national Ben van Beurden as Chief Executive to succeed Peter Voser from January 1, 2014.
UK classification society Lloyd's Register has won a contract from the Port Authority of Singapore to develop operational procedures and technical standards for LNG refuelling, or bunkering, in the port.