BG Group's Queensland Curtis coal-seam-gas-to-LNG plant under construction on Curtis Island near Gladstone has raised the roof on its second full-containment storage tank as the venture progresses towards producing LNG next year.
French energy company Total and private equity firm Hellman & Friedman plan to sell their 30 percent stakes in GTT, the world's largest maker of storage tanks for LNG carriers.
It’s official, Petronas of Malaysia is on track to have the world’s first floating LNG production plant at the Kanowit natural gas field, 180 kilometres offshore Bintulu. See the first FLNG field pinpointed on our map.
Cargo exports from the world's fourth-largest LNG exporter, Nigeria, were delayed for a fifth day in a power-struggle between various Nigerian regional and national political factions over freight levies and taxes paid by the Nigeria LNG plant at Bonny Island.
The Santos-led Gladstone LNG project in Queensland has invested A$58 million (US$54M) every week on average with Australian businesses since it was sanctioned in January 2011.
Dominion, developer of the Cove Point US LNG export plant, said Gary L. Sypolt will retire as executive vice president of the company and Chief Executive of its Dominion Energy business unit on September 1 after a 38-year career.
Novatek, the second-largest Russian natural gas producer after Gazprom, has signed an agreement to bring China National Petroleum Corp. into the Yamal LNG project in Russia's Arctic region and will also receive Chinese project financing.
Gazprom has launched "a fundamentally new and ambitious project" in the Leningrad region to develop an LNG project with capacity of 10 million tonnes per annum.
Nigeria LNG said a stand-off between the company and the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency over levies that has led to the detention of three LNG carriers and restrictions on another could have "enormous" implications for the exporter and its customers.
Russia's state-owned gas company Gazprom and a Japanese consortium formally signed a memorandum to build a liquefaction plant at Vladivostok in the Russian Far East and jointly sell LNG in Japan.