LNG

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), the builder of 27 LNG carriers and Japan's main shipbuilder in the sector, has cancelled talks to acquire Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES), whose latest developments include a dual-fuel LNG-powered propulsion system.

The Chief Executive of Marathon Oil Corp., Clarence P. Cazalot Junior, the man who oversaw Equatorial Guinea LNG is now retiring in December after almost 14 years leading the Houston, Texas-based company that built the lowest-cost and fastest-built onshore LNG plant in the West African nation.

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said he expected to have final decisions this year on some of the 16 pending applications to export LNG to countries that don't have free-trade agreements with the US.

Centrica, the largest UK utility and LNG buyer of Qatari and future US volumes, has bought into the UK shale-gas dream by acquiring an interest in an exploration licence in northwest England.