Westport Innovations Inc. will supply four LNG fuel tenders, special rail vehicles containing the locomotive's fuel, to the Canadian National Railway, one of the world's great rail companies with transcontinental services from the Pacific to the Atlantic and extensive rail holdings in the US.
Timor-Leste, the tiny former Portuguese colony that fought off dominance by Indonesia over more than 20 years, has politicized the proposed Sunrise LNG project so much that operator Woodside Petroleum of Australia prefers to invest in another project offshore Israel.
Alaska’s new state tax reforms have spurred on LNG plans by the energy majors, including an increase in preliminary work on what will be called the South Central Alaska LNG project.
Singapore plans to award its next LNG import licence through a competitive bidding process organised by the island state's Energy Market Authority after a consultation with market players currently taking place.
Endesa, the electric power company in Chile, and BG Group of the UK have settled their dispute over volumes and prices of an LNG supply contract.
Wilhelmsen Technical Solutions (WTS) and offshore energy engineering company NLI Solutions received approval in principal from the Norwegian class society Det Norske Veritas for their jointly-developed LNG fuel tank design.
Inpex Corp., the lead developer of the Ichthys LNG project in Australia, said it signed shipbuilding and shipping contracts for two new vessels to make deliveries from the liquefaction plant near Darwin to Japan and Taiwan.
The bottom line for the Calgary-based developer's LNG deal with German utility E.ON is that the project has sold Canadian LNG at European prices before Pacific coast projects have sealed any Asian deals.
The Canadian Goldboro LNG export project in the east coast province of Nova Scotia has confirmed the signing of a supply agreement with German utility E.ON to ship cargoes from Canada to Europe.
The Golden Pass US LNG export project involving ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum that intends to point cargoes at the UK will only move forward in June 2014 in the formal regulatory construction permit process, making cargoes available by about 2018.