Woodside Petroleum has raised the cost forecast of its Pluto LNG project offshore Western Australia by A$1 billion to A$14Bln (US$13.4Bln) and has pushed back the start-up date to August 2011.
KBR, one of the world’s leading LNG and energy engineering companies, said it plans to open an Operating Centre in Luanda, the capital of Angola in southwest Africa, where an LNG production plant is under construction.
Gas Natural Fenosa of Spain has signed a preliminary agreement with Cheniere Energy of the US for the potential acquisition of LNG processing capacity up to 1.5 million tonnes per annum at the Sabine Pass LNG facility in Louisiana.
Freeport LNG terminal at Quintana Island in Texas and the energy trading unit of Australian investment bank Macquarie are progressing with plans to become the second LNG export facility in the US Gulf.
Nakilat, the Qatari LNG carrier owner and shipping company, has inaugurated the first three phases of its new world-class shipyard near the LNG production complex at the port of Ras Laffan.
The UK Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets, Ofgem, has published initial proposals for National Grid’s LNG facilities price control which includes the continuation of price caps, with proposed increases.
Bureau Veritas, the French classification society, has published new rules for Polar Class vessels and specific guidance on ice/structure interaction to facilitate floating LNG and oil platform construction in high Arctic conditions.
Fluxys of Belgium, operator of the Zeebrugge LNG import terminal, said the facility posted a record of eight for LNG cargoes off-loaded at the facility in one month.
The International Gas Union said the world’s largest and most important liquefied natural gas conference will be held in Perth, Australia, in 2016.
El Paso Pipeline Partners, a company formed by El Paso Corp. to operate its US natural gas pipelines and storage assets, is now the 100 percent owner of Southern LNG Co., operator of the Elba Island LNG import terminal near Savannah in the state of Georgia.