Hamworthy said demand for its LNG regasification systems increased substantially during the past year as its overall order intake rose three-fold after a tougher trading environment in the previous fiscal year.
KCA Deutag, the Aberdeen, Scotland-based drilling and engineering group, said it was selected by Woodside Energy for a contract on the Browse LNG project offshore northwest Australia.
There is a dramatic and continuing expansion of LNG trade around the world and the trade in natural gas between regions will double to over 1 trillion cubic metres, the International Energy Agency said in a special report just issued on the global gas industry.
Sovcomflot, the Russian shipping and LNG carrier company, said it ordered two ice-class LNG carriers to be chartered to Gazprom Global LNG on long-term contracts.
Petronas of Malaysia and Progress Energy Resources of Canada signed a US$1.7-billion deal for the Malaysian company to invest in shale-gas assets and develop an LNG export terminal project on the west coast of Canada.
Enagas of Spain and the Dutch global storage company Vopak said they reached an agreement for the acquisition of the Mexican LNG import terminal at Altamira on the Gulf Coast from its current group of owners led by Royal Dutch Shell.
Gazprom, the Russian LNG producer, said its Singapore subsidiary signed preliminary long-term LNG supply deals with three customers in India for 7.5 million tonnes per annum of cargoes.
Japans LNG requirements this year will total more than 80 million tonnes and the biggest problem facing the countrys utilities is acquiring the shipping capacity to deliver the incremental cargoes.
Apache Corp. of the US, developer of the Kitimat LNG export project in Canada, promoted two British executives to key roles in its LNG team, with Graham Lawton now being responsible for LNG projects and Kenny Paterson taking a lead position for LNG marketing and shipping.
Vopak, the Dutch storage company, and Royal Dutch Shell are assessing market interest in their Fos Faster LNG import project in the south of France to see if they will proceed to build what would be a third LNG facility near the city of Marseille.