Chubu Electric Power, the third-largest Japanese LNG buyer, signed two separate contracts to purchase 1 million tonnes per annum for four years from Qatargas, the world's largest producer, and a lesser amount under a 10-year contract starting in 2018.
Delivering Central Asian natural gas volumes to China is not without challenges and the absence of an expansion of pipeline deliveries will mean additional LNG demand by the Chinese, leading to a tightening effect on the global cargo market.
The 2012 Gastech conference in London was completing four days of discussions that focused on an LNG industry facing surging demand from Asian nations, the build-up of production and the growth of the LNG carrier fleet from 365 to 430 vessels in the next few years.
Free ReadGolar LNG, the carrier operator owned by Norwegian shipping tycoon John Fredriksen, has signed an option to provide vessels for one of the first Canadian LNG liquefaction and export plants being developed on the Pacific coast near Kitimat. Golar said it entered into a 90-day Vessel Charter Option Agreement with LNG…
The largest European port, Rotterdam, and the biggest port in Scandinavia, Gothenburg, have entered a new alliance to speed up the establishment of LNG as a maritime fuel.
The American Bureau of Shipping, the classification society, said it granted approval in principle to a new LNG and regasification articulated tug barge concept introduced by Waller Marine Inc.
South Hook Gas signed a framework agreement with Noble Clean Fuels, a unit of Noble Group, for access to spare LNG import capacity at the UK South Hook LNG import facility at Milford Haven, owned by Qatar Petroleum, ExxonMobil and France's Total.
The Singapore LNG trading office of Russian natural gas giant Gazprom has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Korea Gas Corp., the world's largest corporate buyer of LNG.
Asian natural gas and LNG prices are likely to drop while prices in Europe and North America will rise in the period through to 2020, the 2012 Gastech conference in London was told.