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Plans for Jamaica’s first LNG terminal have been thrown into doubt by an official report calling into question the bidding process for a floating facility won by a consortium including Belgian shipping group Exmar.
The four companies led by Australia’s Santos involved in the GLNG coal-seam-gas to-LNG project on Curtis Island formally launched the US $16-billion venture at a ceremony in Queensland attended by politicians and executives.
Qatargas said it delivered a commissioning cargo to PetroChina’s first LNG receiving terminal located at Rudong in Jiangsu Province on board the Q-Flex LNG carrier “Al-Rekayyat”.
The American Bureau of Shipping classification society announced the release at the Nor-Shipping conference in the Norwegian capital Oslo of a guide on the benefits of LNG as fuel for ships.
Stena, the Swedish shipping company, said bought three LNG carriers for $700M from the Taiwanese company TMT and expected charter rates of over $100,000 per day from each vessel.
Inpex Corp. of Japan said it would extend the reach of its LNG imports by building a new pipeline linking the cities of Itoigawa and Toyama to its planned Joetsu LNG import terminal.
Exmar, the Belgian shipping group with LNG interests, said it teamed up with Pacific Rubiales to develop a small-scale LNG export project in northern Colombia.
Cheniere Energy said it received an order from the US Department of Energy with authorization to export up to 16 million tonnes per annum of LNG to any country from the Sabine Pass LNG facility in Louisiana.
Qatargas, the world’s largest corporate producer of LNG, said it added Greece to its roster of customers when a first cargo was delivered to the Revithoussa Island LNG import terminal, located west of the Greek port of Piraeus.
Royal Dutch Shell said it would go ahead with investment in the Prelude Floating LNG project offshore Australia to produce 3.5 million tonnes per annum of LNG - and opening the way for similar developments at other gas fields.