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The US Energy Department said Italian energy company ENI plans to become the fifth LNG player to gain permission to re-export cargoes imported into the US.
UK LNG import terminals are experiencing heavy traffic of LNG carriers as gas demand remains high and the Grain LNG, South Hook LNG and Dragon LNG import facilities post steady natural gas send-out figures.
Spain’s Enagas said conventional natural gas demand rose 10 percent in the past year to pre-recession levels, and new LNG imports from Peru meant the Spanish system has received gas from 13 different countries.
Tokyo Gas Co., one of the world’s largest LNG buyers, has entered into an agreement to supply another Japanese company, Hokkaido Gas, with some of its excess supplies from offtake agreements signed with liquefaction projects in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions.
Linde Engineering, developer along with Statoil of the triple cycle MFC technology used in the Snøhvit LNG project, said a performance test would be carried out at the Hammerfest liquefaction facility in Norway after its scheduled turnaround in the second quarter of 2011.
BG Group, one of the world’s leading LNG players, announced that Ashley Almanza would be leaving the company and his role as Chief Financial Officer to be replaced by a Brazilian.
Inpex Corp. of Japan said the Indonesian government has approved the Plan of Development (POD) of the Abadi gas field in the Arafura Sea to provide feed-gas for the Abadi Floating LNG project.
Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina’s coal-seam-gas-to-LNG joint venture in Australia issued an invitation to four Australian and international consortia to tender for the front-end engineering design contract for the project planned for Curtis Island, off the port of Gladstone.
Norton Rose (Asia) LLP, the international legal practice, announced that Ashley Wright is to join its energy group in Singapore as a partner, to lead the oil and gas team and deal with LNG issues in the Asia-Pacific.
Santos of Australia said it agreed to sell stakes in its Gladstone coal-seam-gas-to-LNG project to France’s Total and Korea Gas Corp. in separate transactions for a sum of US$600 million to help develop the $16 billion venture.