Mitsubishi Corp., the LNG project investor, expects an announcement later this month that the Japanese company and three partners, including Royal Dutch Shell, will be going ahead with what will be Canada's third LNG export project.
AMEC of the UK said its Clough-AMEC joint venture in Australia was awarded the operability, reliability and maintainability (ORM) contract for the offshore processing facility for Chevron Corp's Wheatstone LNG project.
LNG and energy engineer Technip was awarded a flexible piping lump-sum contract at the feed-gas field supplying the Ichthys LNG project in in Australia.
The US LNG export venture located in the West Coast state of Oregon, the Jordan Cove Energy project, plans to sell an initial 6 million tonnes per annum of LNG to Asia-Pacific customers in 2017 and has talked to at least 10 US and Canadian producers about supplying the feed-gas.
Korea Midland Power Co. said it signed an agreement with energy trading company Vitol to import 400,000 tonnes per annum of LNG over 10 years in what is the Swiss-based trader's second major agreement following a similar deal with Kuwait.
The Browse LNG project in Western Australia involving Woodside Petroleum and four partners has been have been given the option by the federal and state governments of leaving their final investment decision to mid-2013.
GasLog Ltd., the Monaco-based LNG carrier owner and operator, has passed a tough first week as a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange as the shares have lost 20 percent of their value, though investors see the stocks as a medium-term play because of new vessels on order…
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said it was moving towards a final investment decision on its planned Mozambique LNG project for up to six production Trains and announced another drilling success in the prolific Rovuma Basin.
BG Group has named Catherine Tanna to be executive head of its operations in Australia, but has put BG Asia Managing Director Derek Fisher in charge of the day-to-running of its $US15$ billion Queensland Curtis LNG project.
Just when you think the differential between the LNG price base in the US and the price in Japan can't get any wider - the gap is becoming a chasm. The US Henry Hub spot price has now tested the $1.85 per million British thermal units mark, and the front-month…