Three Japanese companies, including leading LNG buyer Tokyo Gas Co. and liquefaction plant developer Inpex Corp., have signed a pact for mutual supply assistance in the event of an emergency or natural disaster.
Technip was awarded a services contract for the floating production storage and offloading unit for the Ichthys LNG project being developed by Japan's inpex and Total of France.
Woodside Petroleum said it had let lapse an initial agreement with CPC of Taiwan for LNG supplies from the Browse LNG project being developed in Western Australia, following a change in investment plans for the venture.
Russia's Sovcomflot, the world's largest operator of ice-class vessels, signed an agreement to provide Royal Dutch Shell with the use of two newbuild LNG carriers on the basis of a long-term time charter.
Norwegian energy company Statoil said in its annual market review that the next couple of years should see tougher inter-regional competition for LNG supplies.
Pirates armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades fired on an LNG carrier, reportedly the Japanese-owned Mitsui Osk Lines 126,300 cubic metres capacity "LNG Aries", about 12 nautical miles off the coast of Oman, security officials said.
Petronas, the Malaysian energy company said it signed three deals that will pave the way for the implementation of the $5 billion North Malay Basin project, a new integrated natural gas development in Peninsular Malaysia with implications for the nation's LNG requirements.
Royal Dutch Vopak and Swedegas have signed an initial agreement to consider the construction of an open-acces LNG import terminal at Gothenburg, the largest port in the Nordic region.
Japanese LNG imports jumped almost 17 percent last month compared with the same mopth a year ago to just over 7 million tonnes and at an average price of $17 per million British thermal units.
Kansai Electric Power Co. is scheduled to receive a cargo delivery from the ConocoPhillips-owned Alaska LNG plant at the end of June at the import terminal at Himeji in southern Japan.