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ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum have made a silver-bullet application to the US Department of Energy to export LNG to nations such as Japan and China from the existing Golden Pass LNG import terminal in Texas when it is transformed into an LNG production plant.
Indian LNG imports amounted to almost 1.25 million tonnes of last month, an increase of around 25 percent from the same period a year ago, putting the country on track to achieve its forecast 15MT total of imports for 2012.
MAN Diesel and Turbo of Germany won a contract to supply the engines for two newbuilding LNG carriers ordered by Athens-based Alpha Tankers and Freighters International.
MacDermid Offshore Solutions was awarded a contract for the supply of subsea hydraulic control fluids to the Inpex-led Ichthys LNG project in the Browse Basin offshore Western Australia.
Cheniere Energy Partners is progressing with its fund-raising for the first US LNG export project on the Gulf coast, as income from current operations is focused on debt pay-offs and operating expenses while US re-export and regasification activities decline.
Chevron Corp. said it was continuing to grow its Australian Wheatstone LNG project to create expansion opportunities and the huge Gorgon LNG development on Barrow Island offshore Western Australian was more than 50 percent complete.
Golar LNG Partners, the Nasdaq-listed operating company of Norwegian shipping tycoon John Fredriksen,  plans to offer 4.3 million shares to investors in the latest fund-raising exercise by the LNG shipper and developer.
Indonesia and BP of the UK have finally approved the $12 billion addition of a Third liquefaction Train at the BP-operated Tangguh LNG plant in West Papua.
Golar LNG, controlled by Norwegian shipping tycoon John Fredriksen,  said it reached agreement with Keppel Shipyard for the development of its first Floating LNG liquefaction vessel by converting an existing Moss-tank LNG carrier.
Free ReadRoyal Dutch Shell said LNG sales volumes for the third quarter were 4.97 million tonnes, up 4 percent from the same three months a year ago. LNG sales volumes in the first nine months were 14.71MT compared with 13.99MT in 2011, an increase of 5 percent.The figures were released in…