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UK natural gas prices broke the $6 per million British thermal units barrier for the first time this year as LNG cargo deliveries to the UK were expected to be temporarily halted as Qatar, one of its main suppliers, overhauled its production plants.
RasGas Co., the Qatar-based LNG producer, saw its first spot LNG cargo to Argentina  delivered to the Bahia Blanca GasPort terminal 600 kilometres south of Buenos Aires.
Statoil celebrated the third anniversary of the completion of the Snøhvit LNG project, Europe’s only current base-load plant, by saying it made other and larger Arctic region LNG ventures possible in the near future.
Cheniere Energy said it was pursuing plans to build at least two liquefaction Trains at Sabine Pass LNG import terminal in Louisiana so that the US could export its surplus natural gas supplies when market prices dictated.
Mitsui Osk Lines, the Japanese LNG carrier owner, said a second shuttle and regasification vessel, co-owned with Höegh LNG, was delivered to France’s GDF-Suez for the US Neptune LNG import facility located offshore Massachusetts.
China Natural Gas, a provider of small-scale LNG for vehicles and industrial customers, said its latest LNG production plant in Xian, part of a network of eight facilities, would undergo tests by the end of the month.
Hamworthy, the UK-listed provider of liquefaction and regasification systems for LNG carriers, said the LNG market remained restrained throughout the past year with very little new order activity.
Foster Wheeler, the leading LNG engineering company, announced that Robert C. Flexon had formally taken over the role of Chief Executive Officer, replacing Raymond J. Milchovich.
Statoil said it restarted production at its Snøhvit LNG project plant at Melkøya island near the town of Hammerfest in Northern Norway after a shutdown of just over two weeks.
Det Norske Veritas, the Norwegian classification society, said it carried out a study showing LNG can become the clean fuel of choice for the shipping industry because of its abundance and relatively low price compared with diesel oil.