Inpex, the Japanese LNG developer, is assessing engineering, procurement and construction contracts for the Ichthys LNG project in Australia, and front-end engineering and design work on the Abadi Floating LNG venture in Indonesia will start in the first half of 2012. A final investment decision on Ichthys LNG, which Inpex…
Hamworthy, the UK-listed maker of LNG marine equipment, said it won a contract for the supply of two LNG regasification systems to Hyundai Heavy Industries of South Korea to be installed on vessels being used as LNG import facilities. The Hyundai contract will see two Hamworthy systems to be installed…
Indonesia said executives from Norway's Höegh LNG have held talks in Jakarta about the setting up an LNG import facility using a floating storage and regasification vessel in Medan in North Sumatra after winning a tender. The country's natural gas network company, Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN), is establishing a network…
Statoil has bought out the interests of US energy company Hess in the Snøhvit natural gas field in the Barents Sea and in the Hammerfest LNG plant, which is the subject of expansion studies. New York-based Hess had 3.26 percent ownership in the Barents Sea Snøhvit Unit and adjacent production…
Technip, the LNG and energy engineering company, is taking a large stake in French company Cybernétix, whose 150 engineers and technicians operate robotics in deep sea environments where Technip is boosting its presence in areas such as Floating LNG. Technip said it had received commitments from three parties, Askoad Conseil,…
Sempra LNG earned $24 million in the third quarter of 2011, up from $5M in the same period a year ago, due primarily to additional revenues from contracted deliveries that were never made. The LNG unit of San Diego-based Sempra Energy has two LNG regasification terminals where capacity is contracted,…
Teekay LNG Partners, a subsidiary of Canadian shipping company Teekay Corp., said it was selling upwards of 5.5 million of its New York Stock Exchange-listed shares to help finance its joint purchase with Marubeni Corp. of Japan of the Maersk LNG carrier fleet. Teekay LNG, which is based in Bermuda,…
Teekay LNG Partners, a subsidiary of Canadian shipping company Teekay Corp., said it was selling upwards of 5.5 million of its New York Stock Exchange-listed shares to help finance its joint purchase with Marubeni Corp. of Japan of the Maersk LNG carrier fleet. Teekay LNG, which is based in Bermuda,…
Lithuania said three companies submitted bids to develop its planned floating import facility and the Baltic state expects to sign a deal in early 2012, giving it an alternative to supplies of natural gas from Russia's Gazprom. A deal is expected to be finalized in January or February 2012 and…
All the coal-seam-gas-to-LNG projects being developed in Australia were "going full-speed ahead" and energy company Santos said its own Gladstone LNG project would be delivering LNG cargoes to Malaysia and South Korea in less than four years. Santos Chief Executive David Knox said in a speech in Brisbane that since…