The leading global LNG liquefaction plant builder, Bechtel of the US, is currently constructing three plants simultaneously on a small island near the Australian port of Gladstone. CLICK HERE to go on a cruise to LNG Island (pictured) as organized by Bechtel.
The Alaska Gasline Port Authority has added its name to the list of applicants for an LNG export licence from a liquefaction plant being developed to export North Slope natural gas, and includes an option for a floating liquefaction plant.
The world's first cleared LNG energy financial derivative swap has traded for September at $13.90 per million British thermal units.
Aker Solutions, the Norway-based energy contractor, has signed a contract to supply umbilicals to the Ichthys LNG project being developed offshore northwest Australia by Japanese energy company Inpex and partner Total of France.
Australia Pacific LNG awarded Laing O'Rourke a $650 million contract to build inland coal-seam gas processing facilities for the first phase of the CSG-to-LNG project centred on Curtis Island near the port of Gladstone.
The Browse LNG project planned by Australian company Woodside Petroleum and partners, including energy majors and two Japanese trading houses, has been approved by the West Australian Environmental Protection Authority with strict conditions.
South Korean LNG imports rose more than 15 percent last month compared with the same time a year ago as the world No.2 buyer after Japan kept its inventory high.
Sabine Liquefaction, the first new LNG export plant for surplus US natural gas, has received financing commitments from banks of $3.4 billion to fund the construction of the first two Trains.
French energy company has acquired an additional 6 percent stake of the $34 billion Ichthys LNG project in Australia from Japanese partner Inpex.
Black and Veatch, the US-based LNG liquefaction process provider, will supply technology and services for a floating liquefaction, regasification and storage unit located offshore Colombia.