The chief executives of ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP and TransCanada said they had a new agreement to work jointly on developing the next generation of energy resources in Alaska and focusing on LNG.
Yemen LNG said it expected few cargo delivery problems after another attack on its feed-gas pipeline by terrorists caused the liquefaction plant to be shut down for a second time in just over six months.
Ukraine said it would build an onshore LNG import terminal at the Black Sea port of Yuzhnyi at a cost of more than $1 billion, with most of the construction costs being financed by loans or from private investors.
Shtokman Development AG, the company planning the huge natural gas and LNG project from feed-gas in the Barents Sea, and involving Gazprom, France's Total and Norway's Statoil, has again postponed its final investment decision.
MEO Australia announced that the federal government updated its Tassie Shoal LNG project environmental approval in the Timor Sea until at least 2017.
The Papua New Guinea government has sent troops from its national Defence Force into Southern Highlands province to help police deal with lawlessness and disorderly conduct by landowners in the area of the ExxonMobil-led PNG LNG project.
Canada-based Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp., which has South American oil and natural gas interests in Colombia, said it signed a natural gas and LNG liquefaction services agreement with Exmar of Belgium.
LNG player SBM Offshore has launched its new corporate identity and is uniting its worldwide group of companies under one global brand, while its Floating LNG division will operate from the Netherlands.
The first LNG import terminal in the Baltic states will go ahead after shareholders of Klaipedos Nafta, the Lithuanian refining and storage company, voted to approve an LNG regasification vessel charter deal with Hoegh LNG of Norway.
Delays and cost overruns at LNG projects mean new supply will not be seen before the second half of 2012, and planned maintenance at Qatargas in April and September will influence the UK, Europe's biggest natural gas market.