Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said the country hoped to sign an agreement soon that would give it up to 2.5 million tonnes per annum of LNG from Qatargas to supplement volumes from Algeria and Nigeria.
UK-based FES International, a supplier of fluid transfer systems, said it won an equipment supply contract for the Royal Dutch Shell Prelude Floating LNG project offshore northwest Australia.
Thiess, the construction arm of Australia's Leighton Holdings, secured a contract with lead engineer Bechtel for site preparation works for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone LNG plant near Onslow in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Yemen LNG said it completed its annual plant maintenance shutdown at its Balhaf liquefaction plant ahead of schedule after bringing the work forward following a terrorist attack on the feed-gas pipeline on March 30.
Australian energy company Santos said the two LNG ventures it's involved in, the ExxonMobil-led LNG project in Papua New Guinea and the Gladstone coal-seam-gas-to-LNG project in Queensland, remained on schedule to start production in 2014 and 2015.
Free ReadWoodside Petroleum said LNG carriers were lining up to arrive at Dampier Port in Western Australia to load the first commercial cargoes from the world's latest liquefaction project. The Pluto LNG plant is located between the Woodside-operated and 23-year-old North West Shelf LNG plant and Dampier Port on the Burrup…
GDF-Suez, the French LNG player, said it was appointed as strategic partner to develop a floating LNG import terminal which would be the first on the east coast of India.
Russian natural gas giant Gazprom and smaller competitor Novatek have signed a memorandum of cooperation that is expected to give Gazprom more control of the development of the Yamal LNG project and could lead to the expansion of the venture.
Sempra Energy outlined the terms of its agreement with Japanese LNG players, Mitsubishi Corp. and Mitsui & Co., to turn the Cameron LNG import terminal in Louisiana into an LNG plant to liquefy and export US natural gas provided by the investors.
Chevron Corp. said it signed a non-binding heads of agreement with Chubu Electric Power Co. of Japan for the delivery of LNG from its Wheatstone LNG project in Western Australia.