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Total signed a deal with Russian energy company Novatek to become the main foreign partner in the huge Yamal LNG project planned for Northern Russia, and the French company will also become a shareholder in Novatek itself for an initial $4 billion.
What makes LNG exports from the United States attractive to buyers? The simple answer is a combination of lower prices and destination flexibility.
Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line), the Japanese shipping company, said it ordered a new LNG carrier from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and chartered it out from 2014 to leading LNG buyer, Tokyo Electric Power Co.
The LNG carrier market has reached a level of tightness not seen for several years, and in the LNG spot market charterers have had to secure tonnage on a round trip cost basis and are currently chartering on a rate nearly three times more than nine months ago, Golar Energy said…
China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec) said it signed a heads of agreement with Australia Pacific LNG, a coal-seam-gas-to-LNG project being developed by ConocoPhillips and Origin Energy, to purchase 4.3 million tonnes per annum of LNG for 20 years.
Mitsubishi Corp. of Japan and Korea Gas Corp. said they signed an agreement for “strategic collaboration” in their LNG businesses, especially in Canada and Australia.
The diversification of LNG concepts will be explored in depth at the 25th Gastech Conference & Exhibition in Amsterdam next month.
Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, said it had entered into an agreement for a three-year contract with Qatargas to deliver 2.4 million tonnes per annum of LNG worth 2 billion pounds ($3.2Bln) to the Grain LNG import facility near London.
Fluor Corp. said was it awarded an offshore front-end engineering and design contract by Australia’s Woodside for the $30-billion Browse LNG development.
Japan’s Chiyoda said its joint venture was awarded a front-end engineering and design contract for Woodside Petroleum’s Browse LNG project in Western Australia as part of a two-sided contest that will lead to the engineering, procurement and construction work.