TORP LNG, the Norwegian technology provider, said its HiLoad sytem was chosen by MEO Australia for its Timor Sea LNG project.
Woodside Petroleum gave an upbeat assessment of its growing LNG interests as it reported its Pluto LNG project Train 1 was over 70 percent complete and confirmed Pluto LNG would comprise of five liquefaction Trains when fully developed.
A decision by Australian authorities to assume responsibility for future claims from plans to capture and store the Gorgon LNG venture's greenhouse-gas emissions deep underground has cleared the final barrier to the projects final investment decision.
GDF-Suez of France and Australian energy company Santos said they had joined forces to develop a floating LNG project off northwest Australia called Bonaparte LNG.
SBM Offshore said it signed a 15-year deal with Shell Global Solutions for the supply of turret mooring systems for Shells planned 3.5 million tonne per annum Floating LNG facilities.
Australias Origin Energy said its joint venture with ConocoPhillips, Australia Pacific LNG, had secured the Laird Point site on Curtis Island near the Port of Gladstone from the State Government as the site for its proposed LNG plant.
The US Coast Guard announced it had established two temporary safety zones extending 500 metres in all directions around the turret-loading buoys of the GDF-Suez-owned Neptune LNG deepwater port.
Chevron Corp., currently involved in three new LNG projects in Australia, said it was awarded a new a exploration permit with gas potential in the Exmouth Plateau region close to the premier hydrocarbon basins of the North West Shelf and Greater Gorgon.
SNC-Lavalin, the Canadian LNG contractor, has taken a significant stake in Russian engineering company VNIPIneft, with 900 skilled personnel working in gas processing, refining and other energy projects.
StatoilHydro said its Hammerfest LNG liquefaction plant serving the Snøhvit LNG project in northern Norway will be shut down from August 15 for up to three months for maintenance work, including the replacement of 15 heat exchangers.