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Emerson Process Management won a contract from Golar LNG to supply digital automation for process control and safety systems on the “Golar Freeze” floating storage and regasification vessel that will become a dockside LNG import terminal for Dubai.
Excelerate Energy, the US ship-based LNG import facility developer, said its regasification vessel, the “Explorer”, completed the discharge of an LNG cargo at its new Northeast Gateway facility offshore Boston after months of delays caused by technical problems.
GDF-Suez, the largest utility player in LNG, saw LNG sales slump in the first-quarter of 2009 to just five cargoes compared with 16 cargoes in the same three months a year ago due to “less-positive market conditions.”
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a final environmental impact statement for the Jordan Cove LNG project, one of three LNG ventures moving forward in the western state of Oregon.
Belgium’s Fluxys LNG plans to carry out a study into building a second jetty at its Zeebrugge LNG import terminal to enable regasification vessels to moor, and allowing Belgian shipping company Exmar to book long-term capacity.
France’s Total and Japan’s Inpex have launched the front-end engineering and design for the development of the Ichthys natural gas field in the Browse Basin, offshore Australia, for the Ichthys LNG project.
Chevron Corp. welcomed a decision by the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority to give the go-ahead for the expanded Gorgon LNG project.
BG Group said its operating profit from LNG surged 46 percent in the first quarter to 578 million pounds ($860M) compared with 395M pounds in the same quarter a year ago, helped by the strong dollar.
Tokyo Gas Co said it planned to go-ahead with construction of the world’s largest LNG containment tank at 250,000 cubic metres capacity and costing more than $200 million, and has also taken delivery of a new LNG carrier to boost its fleet to seven ships.
Wood Group of the UK and Houston, Texas-based lightering company SPT Inc. signed an agreement to market combined services to the floating LNG industry.