The "FSRU Toscana", the vessel that will be Europe's latest LNG import facility, will be deployed offshore Italy in mid-July after a stop-over in Malta during its current voyage from the conversion yard in Dubai.
ExxonMobil and its Canadian subsidiary, Imperial Oil Ltd., have filed an application with the Canadian National Energy Board for a licence to export 30 million tonnes per annum of LNG from the Pacific coast.
Novatek, the most prominent LNG developer after Gazprom, said it signed an agreement to order two LNG carriers to work the Yamal LNG project it's developing in northern Russia with France's Total.
There is fierce competition among all the planned global LNG projects on the drawing board or being developed, currently amounting on paper to a total of 720 million tonnes of production, though many will not proceed.
The LNG market will face "unprecedented" tightness this year and next as incremental demand from Asia exceeds new supply, and when new production is available much of it will go to China, according to the Paris-based International Energy Agency.
Osaka Gas, the Japanese utility and LNG buyer, has taken stakes of up to 20 percent in three exploration licences in Papua New Guinea with the view of being part of a new LNG project in the Oceania nation.
Gazprom's board has been clearing up some issues relating to the Shtokman LNG project and speculation about the sale of pipeline gas to China at US Henry Hub prices before next week's two-day annual shareholders' meeting at the Russian natural gas giant's Moscow headquarters on June 24 and June 25.
Policy makers on LNG exports have been called to testify to a House committee to show that they are not themselves obstacles to selling the American natural gas glut as LNG cargoes. The VIDEO of proceedings includes Chris Smith, a key Department of Energy official.
The Ichthys LNG project using Browse Basin feed-gas from offshore northwest Australia for a liquefaction plant at Darwin has seen first steel cut for the hull of its Floating Production, Storage and Offloading facility being constructed in South Korea.
The only Australian participant in the US LNG export race, LNG Ltd. based in Perth, is seeing its Magnolia LNG project in Louisiana come under scrutiny by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.