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Total of France said the Pazflor oil field offshore Angola in southwest Africa has come on stream using the world’s largest floating production, storage and offloading vessel, and will offer associated gas to be used as feed-gas for the Angola LNG plant due on stream in 2012.
The South Hook Gas Co. has signed an agreement to give petroleum products trader Trafigura access to spare LNG import capacity at its LNG import terminal at Milford Haven.
Repsol, the Spanish operator of Canada’s only LNG import terminal at Saint John, New Brunswick, imported 16 LNG cargoes in the first half of the year, some valued at less than $9 million.
Novatek, developer of the Yamal LNG project in Northern Russia, and Russian shipping company SCF Group are continuing a series of Arctic voyages to the Pacific along the Northern Sea Route to test the prospects for LNG deliveries to the Asia-Pacific region.
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering of South Korea said it won a $280 million order to build a floating storage and regasification LNG vessel for Excelerate Energy of the US.
  The board of the Oslo stock exchange approved the listing of Awilco LNG, a Norwegian-based owner and operator of a small fleet of LNG vessels aimed at the spot trading and short-term charter markets.  
Nippon Yusen Kaisha, known as NYK Line, said two new LNG carriers have been named at a shipyard in South Korea to ship LNG cargoes from Angola in southwest Africa from 2012.
Pace Global Energy, the US management and consultancy firm, named Pravas Sud as Director of LNG Services located in the company’s office in Houston, Texas.
The Creole Trail LNG import terminal project in the US is the latest to allow its construction permit to expire as the country turns its attention to building liquefaction facilities to export North America’s gas surplus.
The Federal Court in Australia “permanently restrained” a union from taking wildcat action at any of Woodside Petroleum’s LNG ventures after ordering the same union to pay the company A$1.5 million (US$1.57M) compensation for a previous strike at the Pluto LNG project.