BG Group, the leading Atlantic Basin LNG player, appointed Executive Vice President and Managing Director for the Americas and Global LNG, Martin Houston, to its board of directors with immediate effect.
Enagas, Spains leading LNG regasification and natural gas storage and transportation company, posted a more than 8 percent rise in annual profit to 259 million euros ($332M) as it continued to build the business with investment in infrastructure.
Bahrain and Royal Dutch Shell signed an agreement to look at ways of providing imports of LNG or pipeline gas to meet the Gulf states growing domestic demand for energy.
Exmar, the Belgium-based shipping company with an interest in 11 LNG vessels, said income was likely to rise in 2009 when three newbuilds are delivered and chartered to import facility developer Excelerate Energy of the US.
Brazil has received its first imports of LNG when it took delivery of a cargo from Atlantic LNG in Trinidad using a floating storage and regasification vessel.
Royal Dutch Shell said its LNG sales volumes in the fourth quarter edged higher to 3.36 million tonnes and full-year 2008 LNG sales were slightly lower at 13.05 million tonnes as Nigeria LNG production losses offset improvements elsewhere.
Kanfa Aragon, a unit of the Norways Sevan Marine, said it signed a contract with Samsung Heavy Industries of South Korea for the development of an LNG topside for a floating LNG production vessel.
EON Ruhrgas said it planned to become more closely involved in the LNG business in Equatorial Guinea, where the German company is involved in a new LNG Train project and has just signed an agreement to help the West African nation commercialize more of its gas reserves.
South Hook LNG, one of two new LNG import terminals going into operation in the UK this year, is awaiting the arrival of its commissioning cargo from Qatar onboard the Q-Flex carrier, the Tembek.
Quintero LNG, developer of Chile's first import terminal, said the project was more than 80 percent completed and was scheduled to begin commercial operations in the second half of this year.