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The Freeport US LNG export plant in Texas being developed by oil tycoon Michael Smith signed a binding 20-year liquefaction tolling agreement with BP for 4.4 million tonnes per annum of cargoes, filling a gap in the UK major's portfolio.
Apache Corp. and Chevron Corp. have completed their transaction to build and operate the Kitimat LNG export project and develop world-class natural gas resources at the Liard and Horn River basins in British Columbia.
LNG exports from one of the leading producers, Malaysia, declined almost 3 percent last year as the country awaits the development of other liquefaction projects and also increases its own regasification capabilities to boost domestic supplies.
Monadelphous Group, the Australian engineering and construction company, was awarded a contract for the Ichthys LNG project plant in Darwin, the fifth liquefaction venture the company and its subsidiaries are now working on.
GasLog, the Monaco-based LNG carrier fleet owner and operator, has ordered two new 174,000 cubic metres capacity tri-fuel, diesel-electric LNG carriers from Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea as it builds its fleet and strengthens ties with BG Group of the UK.
Damen Shiprepair in the French port of Brest said another LNG carrier, the "Arctic Spirit", has arrived for maintenance as the company grows its LNG work roster.
Chiyodo Corp., one of the world's leading LNG engineering companies, posted a surge in nine-month revenues as it continued work on liquefaction plants in the Asia-Pacific region and new LNG terminals in Japan, while winning new orders.
Offshore LNG Toscana, Europe's .latest import facility, is heading for commissioning offshore Italy in the second quarter after completion of the conversion work on the LNG carrier to be deployed as a floating storage and regasification unit.
Gaz Metro, the largest natural gas distribution company in the Canadian province of Quebec, is planning to offer LNG for transportation fuel and will expand a peak-shaving facility into a mid-scale liquefaction plant to meet demand.
The Egyptian Damietta LNG plant, one of two operated in the country, has shut down because feed-gas is being diverted by state energy companies to the local market as demand continues to rise in Egypt and other Middle East nations.