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Hoegh LNG has exercised an option for a fourth new floating storage and  regasification unit (FSRU) to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea and has also taken a 50 percent stake in the LNG carrier "STX Frontier".
Russian natural gas giant Gazprom and senior Chinese officials and executives have held further talks in Moscow about Russia supplying LNG and pipeline gas to China.
BG Group of the UK, one of the world's leading LNG cargo sellers and developers, has signed an agreement with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation aimed at supporting the long-term supply of LNG to Japan and creating opportunities for Japanese companies to participate in BG projects.
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation extended further financing to the Papua New Guinea LNG project being developed by ExxonMobil Corp. and partners including JX Nippon Oil and due to come on stream by the end of 2014.
One of Europe's largest LNG import terminals, the UK South Hook facility owned by Qatar Petroleum, ExxonMobil and Total, named Yasser Al Jaidah as the new General Manager.
Aker Solutions has won a $400 million contract from Brunei Shell Petroleum Co for offshore construction and maintenance services linked to a project by the LNG producing nation to extend the life-spans of existing fields and find new feed-gas.
The Indonesian government energy regulator has received the plan from BP of the UK for the long proposed third liquefaction Train expansion of the Tangguh LNG plant.
Two European LNG import terminal owners have increased their stake to one third in the Interconnector subsea natural gas pipeline between the UK and Belgium in completing the acquisition of the shares held by German utility E.ON as part of a strategic alliance.
Kansai Electric Power Co. said it signed a contract to purchase 500,000 tonnes per annum of Qatargas LNG over 15 years from January 2013 as Japanese increase their gas-fired power output to make up for the nuclear deficit.
The Gladstone LNG project, led by Australian energy company Santos, has opened a logistics hub in Queensland to facilitate the movement of equipment for its coal-seam-gas-to-LNG joint venture.