LNG

The Sagunto LNG import terminal in eastern Spain, whose diverse ownership group includes Japanese utility Osaka Gas, Deutsche Bank and Oman Oil, has put a fourth LNG storage tank into operation at a time of much lower natural gas demand in Spain because of the economic downturn.

Every week the LNG and natural gas industry is creating thousands of jobs and training opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region, North and South America, Europe and Africa, even amid a global economic slowdown. Countries such as Australia, India, China, and the US are benefiting from multi-billion dollar upstream developments, liquefaction…

Toyota Tsusho Corp. has signed an agreement to supply the Queensland Curtis coal-seam-gas-to-LNG project in Queensland, owned by BG Group of the UK, with CSG as feed-gas from a block the Japanese company bought into last year to help secure some LNG supplies for Japan.

LNG Partners, a Houston, Texas-based private-equity firm and developer of the B.C. LNG Export Co-operative on the West Coast of Canada, has offered the local Haisla First Nation a full partnership in their project, which would give the native North American tribe stakes in two Canadian LNG ventures on their…