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Australian LNG player Santos, a stakeholder in three local export plants or projects, has warned the government against further calls for the reservation of some domestic gas resources exclusively for Australian industry.
Estonia has chosen Dutch storage giant and LNG import terminal stakeholder Vopak as its partner in a regasification facility venture in the port of Tallinn, following on from Lithuania's plans for the first regas terminal in the Baltic states.
Imperial Oil of Canada, whose main shareholder is ExxonMobil, said it was looking at the possibilities of getting involved in an LNG project on the west coast of British Columbia to export natural gas to Asia.
Woodside Petroleum said the decision by Japanese trading companies Mitsui and Mitsubishi to invest $2 billion in the Browse LNG project "further emphasizes the inherent value in the Browse resource."
Australian LNG developer and energy company Santos said the Gladstone coal-seam-gas-to-LNG project developers have signed a binding heads of agreement with Origin Energy for the purchase of CSG for supply to the venture on the Queensland coast.
The largest Japanese trading companies have finally plunged into the US LNG export market by securing 20-year tolling agreements for liquefaction services from projects under development on the US Gulf and East coasts, and are pledging to turn Marcellus, Barnett and Eagle Ford shale-gas into LNG.
Japanese trading companies Mitsui & Co. and Mitsubishi Corp have bought a minority stake in the Browse LNG project in Western Australia for an estimated $2 billion from Woodside Petroleum, giving the venture added financial strength.
Wood Group Mustang was awarded the topsides detailed engineering and procurement support for the semi-submersible central processing facility (CPF) in the Ichthys field development of the Australian LNG project.
Woodside Petroleum formally launched the commercial phase of its Pluto LNG project with the loading of a cargo on board the "Woodside Donaldson" LNG carrier at the plant near Karratha in Western Australia.
One of three tenders will be chosen by the end of June to set-up Jamaica's first LNG import facility using a floating storage and regasification vessel as the Caribbean nation boosts energy supplies.