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Canada, is planning to export LNG within the next four years, but still imported 2.7 million tonnes of LNG in 2011 into the glutted North American natural gas market, up 60 percent from 1.6 MT the previous year, according to figures from the National Energy Board.
Golar LNG, operator of nine LNG carriers and controlled by Norwegian shipping tycoon John Fredriksen, reported a jump in net income on higher rates for its fully-chartered fleet, even as operating expenses rose.
Anadarko Petroleum of the US, developer of a new LNG production project from feed-gas offshore Mozambique, has made another gas discovery confirming "the world-class nature of this massive natural gas accumulation" in the waters of the southeast African nation.
Oil Search, the Australian-listed company partnering ExxonMobil in the US$15.7 billion Papua New Guinea LNG project, said it was assessing whether enough feed-gas is available for an expansion of the venture.
Yemen LNG and France's Total Gas & Power said they would send up to 35 LNG cargoes to South Korea this year and through 2014 under a new agreement allowing more diversions.
Japanese LNG imports last month rose more than 28 percent compared with the same month a year ago to a record 8.15 million tonnes as gas-fired power usage increased to make up for the nuclear power shortfall.
The Australian construction company Thiess, a unit of Leighton Holdings, and French joint venture Entrepose and Vinci won a contract to build LNG storage tanks for the Wheatstone project being developed by Chevron Corp. in Western Australia.
Santos, the Australian energy company, said the Papua New Guinea LNG project with ExxonMobil was on track for first production in 2014 as it saw its LNG venture participation growing to five operating projects by 2020.
The Queensland Curtis coal-seam-gas-to-LNG project said it was ramping up work on the construction of the largest-diameter, long-distance pipeline in Australia to get back on schedule after heavy rains in the gas fields of Queensland.
Technip, the Paris-based LNG and energy engineering company, reported a surge in net profits as it continued to make progress on its work on the Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects in Australia and on two Floating LNG production ventures.