The UK government has overturned local objections and given the go-ahead for a natural gas pressure station to be built in open country in south-west England to help boost LNG imports at the South Hook LNG and Dragon LNG terminals in Wales.
ExxonMobil said it congratulated its partner Qatar Petroleum at a ceremony in the Gulf state to mark the achievement of LNG production capacity of 77 million tonnes per annum.
The government of Western Australia has given the go-ahead to the $30 billion Browse LNG project in the Kimberley region after publishing a strategic plan for the venture, addressing environmental and social concerns.
Chevron Corp. was given clearance by the US Department of Energy to re-export LNG cargoes from the Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Louisiana without being subject to any new environmental assessments.
Woodside Petroleum, the Australian LNG producer, said it executed a five-year US$1.1 billion syndicated loan re-financing facility with 34 domestic and international banks as it continues to develop its LNG interests.
JGC Corp, the Japanese LNG and energy engineering firm, said it was merging its domestic subsidiaries to increase its competitiveness in seeking international and domestic contracts.
Fluxys, operator of the Zeebrugge LNG import terminal in Belgium, said it was examining options to allow Russia’s Gazprom to reserve long-term storage capacity at its underground storage site in Loenhout.
US domestic natural gas production is forecast to have increased 3.5 percent in 2010, while LNG imports will have risen 1 percent this year compared with 2009, but will show a decline of almost 3 percent in 2011.
Dubai has commissioned its first LNG import facility at Jebel Ali port after a first cargo delivery from Qatar was organized by the Dubai facility’s project manager Royal Dutch Shell.
ConocoPhillips announced that the first LNG cargo from the new Qatargas III joint venture project at the Ras Laffan production complex in Qatar will be arriving soon in Canada.