Free ReadChief Executives from the leading global LNG players will address the opening session on Monday of the 2012 Gastech conference in London, covering issues such as expanding supply and demand, North American liquefaction projects, and concerns in Asia about securing enough cargoes at the right prices.Gastech will take place at…
Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. has set up a subsidiary called JX LNG to operate two regasification terminals, including its own planned Hachinohe import facility and a satellite terminal called Kushiro LNG in Kushiro City, Hokkaido.
The authorities in Thailand approved the expansion of the country's only LNG import terminal from 5 million tonnes per annum capacity to 10 MTPA as state energy company PTT tries to expand its LNG sourcing.
ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP and TransCanada have signalled progress in their studies for an LNG project in Alaska to monetize North Slope natural gas and the venture could become one of the biggest in the world.
Trinidad and Tobago LNG (TTLNG), a subsidiary of the National Gas Company of Trinidad, is inviting bids for the purchase of one cargo of LNG amounting to 136,500 cubic metres currently scheduled for loading on December 11, 2012, at the Atlantic LNG plant in Point Fortin, Trinidad.
BG subsidiary QGC awarded a contract for the first stage of processing facilities for coal-seam feed-gas in the Surat Basin for the Australian Queensland Curtis LNG Project.
GDF-Suez, one of Europe's leading LNG players, has for the first time in its history tapped the US bond market for funds, enabling the company to raise $1.5 billion at a time when other LNG companies from carrier owners to technology suppliers are also raising funds from institutional investors.
Gazprom has chartered an LNG carrier to be the world's first such vessel to sail through the Northern Sea Route, seen by the Russian company as the most economic way to deliver cargoes to Asia from projects under development such as the Shtokman venture.
Tanzania is moving towards being an LNG exporter after US engineering company KBR was awarded a contract for pre-front end engineering and design studies for a prospective liquefaction plant in the East African country.
Several thousand LNG and natural gas industry executives are planning to gather in London next week for the 2012 Gastech conference at a time when the industry is expanding in terms of new production and widening demand.