LNG

North American shale-gas developments are having such an impact on the LNG business that by 2020 combined LNG exports from the US and Canada could be the fourth-largest in the world after Qatar, Australia and Indonesia.

Jamaica will decide this week from five supply bids which company will deliver 800,000 tonnes per annum of LNG to the Caribbean nation as it plans its first LNG import facility. The LNG supplies will amount to around one LNG cargo per month as Jamaica starts to build up its…

GDF-Suez and Petronet LNG signed a further short-term agreement that will see the Indian company buying nine LNG cargoes for delivery to its Dahej import terminal north of Mumbai. GDF-Suez has also been a strategic partner of Petronet, a company in which it holds a 10 percent stake, since 1997.

Cheniere Energy signed a $3.9-billion contract with San Francisco-based Bechtel to build the liquefaction facilities at the Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Louisiana, opening the way for substantial exports of US surplus natural gas. Cheniere is planning to construct LNG Trains capable of producing 9 million tonnes per annum in…