Leading LNG players in Australia such as BG Group, ConocoPhillips and Royal Dutch Shell have agreed to each pay millions of dollars to upgrade the airport at the eastern port of Gladstone, where at least four coal-seam-gas-to-LNG projects will be located. QGC, the CSG arm of the UK company’s…
Petrobras of Brazil has begun delivering natural gas from a new pipeline running more than 200 kilometres from offshore in the Santos Basin to Sao Paulo state as decision time nears for the state-run company for a Floating LNG project in the same area. Petrobras is scheduled to announce on…
While the European Central Bank is trying to save the euro, the Reserve Bank of Australia has other things on its mind - LNG. The global market for LNG is of growing importance to the Australian economy and the RBA has just reported on the long-term benefits of the…
GE Oil & Gas has been chosen to supply two steam turbine-driven compressors for the Royal Dutch Shell Prelude FLNG project being developed offshore Northwest Australia. The contract is from Technip, the Paris-based engineering company, which along with South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has been tasked by Shell to…
Hyundai Heavy Industries said it would build two new LNG carriers for Norway’s BW Group and has an option for two more, bringing to eight the number of LNG carrier newbuild contracts the South Korean shipyard has signed so far this year HHI said one of the two vessels…
The US Energy Department forecasts world energy use will increase 53 percent by 2035, with China and India accounting for half of the total growth and natural gas and LNG being an integral part of the rise. The largest increases in imported LNG and pipeline demand are projected for…
Ukraine said it awarded a contract to Spanish engineering company Socoin to conduct a study on constructing an LNG import terminal on the Black Sea coast.
Cheniere Energy is selling shares to investors to raise more capital for its Sabine Pass liquefaction project in Louisiana to export surplus US gas resulting from the shale-gas boom. The company said it was selling around 3.6 million shares at a price of $15.25. US investment bank Citigroup was…
Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Japan was awarded a contract to supply seven boiler systems for Royal Dutch Shell’s Prelude FLNG project offshore northwest Australia They will be installed on the topside of the Prelude facility, and supply high-pressure steam, which will be used for power generation and LNG production…
Enagás, the leading Spanish natural gas network company and biggest owner of LNG terminals, said it bought a 42 percent stake in a company developing two LNG import terminals in the Canary Islands. The Enagás stake in Gas Carrier Company Canarias SA (Gascan) means Spanish utility Endesa, which is…