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Bestobell Valves of the UK, part of the President engineering group, has secured a major new contract with STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co  of South Korea to supply globe and check valves for two LNG carriers on behalf of Greek shipping company Alpha Tankers, owned by Christos Kanellakis.
The BG Group Queensland Curtis LNG project has received the delivery of the biggest component for its liquefaction plant for coal-seam gas on Curtis Island near the port of Gladstone.
LNG Canada, the Royal Dutch LNG Canadian export project, has filed its formal application with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, which opens up a public comment period in the permitting process for the 24 million tonnes per annum facility.
Statoil, the Norwegian energy company and operator of Europe's only base-load LNG plant,  has farmed down a 25 percent working interest in its operated exploration licence offshore Mozambique to Japanese LNG developer Inpex Corp.
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation has raised more financing for LNG procurement by Japanese utilities, including Kansai Electric Power and Kyushu Electric Power.
Dominion of the US said it had signed liquefaction service agreements with major LNG buyers and also signed an engineering contract to transform its Cove Point LNG import terminal in Maryland into a liquefaction plant to export gas from areas such as the Marcellus shale.
French engineering company Technip and Japan's JGC Corp, have won the tender to build the Yamal LNG plant in the Russian Arctic for Novatek and France's Total.
The Japanese Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Industry said it would create an LNG futures market on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange in fiscal 2014 in an effort to help lower LNG import costs.
Chevron Corp, has signed binding long-term Sales and Purchase Agreements with Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power Co. for LNG from the Wheatstone project in Western Australia.
The Singapore LNG import terminal has received its commissioning cargo from Qatar as it aims to begin commercial operations next month and eventually become a regional cargo hub.