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Bureau Veritas, the international classification society, has issued new rules for the classification of Floating LNG facilities for both production and reception. 
Mitsui Osk Lines (MOL), the Japanese LNG carrier fleet operator, said it had ordered four new LNG carriers from China to deliver cargoes from liquefaction projects ExxonMobil is helping develop in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Gazprom and the Japanese government have agreed on a joint front-end engineering and design study for this year on constructing an LNG liquefaction plant near the Russian Pacific port of Vladivostok.
Golar LNG Energy said it entered into short-term agreements to time-charter its four most modern LNG carriers and valued the deal at around $80 million for company earnings purposes.
Rising Chinese pipeline natural gas imports in the coming years would be unlikely to have an impact on LNG demand in the country because of the high prices being paid, according to a new report.
Australian energy company Santos said it had taken a final investment decision approving development of the US$16 billion Gladstone coal-seam-gas-to-LNG project.
Statoil said the partners in the Snøhvit LNG project are considering building a second liquefaction Train at Europe’s only base-load liquefaction plant on Melkøya island near Hammerfest in northern Norway.
US LNG imports for 2011 are expected to drop by 4.7 percent to around 7.5 million tonnes for the year compared to 2010, according to the latest forecasts from the US Energy Department.
Gazprom Marketing & Trading, the LNG trading arm of the Russian natural gas company, said it signed an agreement to deliver LNG cargoes to India for Gujarat State Petroleum Corp.
Foster Wheeler, the LNG and energy engineering firm, announced three executive promotions in its Global Engineering and Construction division responsible for LNG projects.