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Thailand said it expected to double its LNG imports and extend exploration concession periods in the Gulf of Thailand to meet rising natural gas consumption now heading for a 10 percent year-on-year increase.
Yemen LNG has resumed normal production after repairs to a sabotaged feed-gas pipeline and two carriers have been loaded at the Balhaf plant on the Gulf of Aden headed for South Korea,
Inpex Corp. the Japanese lead developer of the Ichthys LNG project in Australia, has broken new ground by making the most comprehensive movie animation ever of a liquefaction venture, including everything from the feed-gas structure (right) to future cargo delivery.
Mitsui Osk Lines of Japan, one of the leading LNG carrier fleet operators, says the industry is facing another dire year outside of the buoyant LNG sector.
Dominion said it would move forward with engineering, marketing and regulatory review processes for its US LNG export plant after a court judgment in the state of Maryland confirmed its right to build liquefaction facilities at its Cove Point facility on Chesapeake Bay.
Linde Group of Germany has signed a fourth small-scale liquefaction technology contract in China for a plant to produce around 300,000 tonnes per annum of LNG.
South Korean shipbuilding completions for foreign customers dropped more than 28 percent in 2012, though the country is still the leading constructor of LNG carriers, even as China has now overtaken Korea for shipbuilding across all sectors.
The Panama Canal Authority waterway expansion programme that will allow larger LNG carriers to transit is on schedule and more than half-way complete, with dredging works at the Canal entrances on the Pacific and Atlantic sides the most advanced.
InterOil, the current developer of the Gulf LNG project in Papua New Guinea, has extended dates in its contingent agreements with Mitsui of Japan and Hong Kong-based Energy World Corp. to provide flexibility for the selection of a new strategic partner.
The Chinese government has rejected the acquisition by China National Offshore Oil Corp. of an increased holding in Exoma Energy, whose 27,000 square kilometres of coal-seam gas and shale-gas prospects in Queensland are being explored with a view to future LNG exports.