JX Nippon Oil and Energy Corp. is reportedly buying LNG cargoes directly from Nigeria for Japanese consumption ahead of the start of deliveries in 2015 from Royal Dutch Shell's global portfolio under an LNG Sale and Purchase Agreement with Shell Eastern Trading, the Anglo-Dutch company's Singapore-based subsidiary.
Royal Dutch Shell held a ceremony for the cutting of first steel for what it called its game-changing Prelude Floating LNG facility hull being constructed at the Samsung Heavy Industries Geoje shipyard in South Korea.
Australian LNG project stakeholder Santos said 40 coal-seam gas wells were drilled in Queensland in the last quarter for the Gladstone CSG-to-LNG project and the Papua New Guinea LNG venture was progressing on schedule towards first production in 2014.
Woodside Petroleum, the Australian energy company, posted LNG cargo sales revenue of almost US$1 billion in the third-quarter as its new Pluto project operated near full capacity.
ExxonMobil, the US major with LNG production stakes in Qatar and the Asia-Pacific, has agreed to acquire Celtic Exploration of Canada and its substantial shale-gas assets in the prolific Montney basin, signalling its imminent entry into the Canadian LNG export business.
Hoegh LNG, the carrier fleet owner and provider of floating regasification units to handle imports, has signed a revised FSRU agreement with Indonesian state natural gas company Perusahaan Gas Negara for a receiving facility.
The board of Russian energy giant Gazprom has met to discuss long-term strategy and measures to increase its LNG production and supplies amid reports in Moscow it is one of the dozen or so companies interested in buying LNG assets from Spanish energy company Repsol.
Tokyo Gas, the world's third-largest corporate importer of LNG, sold the equivalent of 5.2 million tonnes of regasified LNG in the first half of the fiscal year to the end of September 2012, with supplies to the industrial sector rising 4.4 percent.
A joint project involving 10 marine and energy industry bodies has been launched to assess requirements for the adoption of LNG bunkering in Australian waters.
Wartsila Moss won a contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering to supply inert gas generator units to the floating production, storage and offloading platform under construction for the offshore feed-gas portion of the Australian Ichthys LNG project.