Sabine Pass LNG terminal on the US Gulf coast, which is set to build liquefaction facilities to export surplus US gas, re-exported six LNG cargoes during the first half of 2011 from LNG received from countries such as Qatar and Yemen.
Australias Clough Ltd. and Paris-based Doris Engineering received a letter of intent for offshore project management support services for the Ichthys LNG venture that will bring feed-gas from the Browse Basin to a liquefaction plant near the Australian port of Darwin.
Australia Pacific LNG, the coal-seam-gas-to-LNG project developer led by ConocoPhillips, said it received US$1.76 billion from Sinopec to complete the Chinese energy companys purchase of a 15 percent stake in its Queensland venture.
AGL Resources Inc. said its Pivotal LNG subsidiary signed an agreement to buy another US peak-shaving LNG facility as part of its strategy of building up supplies at end-of-pipeline storage facilities and selling it to the growing US LNG trucking fuel market.
The scarcity of LNG cargoes heading for the US East Coast because of wide cargo price differentials relative to Europe and Asia has led US regulators into a dispute between Shell LNG and the Dominion Cove Point import terminal in Maryland.
Flint Hill Resources and the Alaskan Golden Valley Electric Association said they had started engineering design work on an LNG liquefaction facility on Alaska's North Slope.
Höegh LNG of Norway said it agreed to acquire the LNG Libra, a 126,400 cubic metres capacity Moss-type LNG carrier built in 1979, and which is likely to be converted into an LNG import facility.
Vietnam said it was in talks with Qatargas over a contract to import LNG from 2013 as the countrys domestic natural gas demand increases.
Japanese shipping companies are among the worlds largest owners and operators of LNG carriers but are unable fully to benefit from the booming spot market in incremental LNG cargoes heading for Japan.
Lydall Inc., a US maker of cryogenic-supportive products, said it was chosen by Australian company Cryeng Pty Ltd. to supply insulation for vacuum-jacketed piping linked to a new LNG loading facility in Australia.