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Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Co’s RasGas II project in Qatar has sent its first cargo to Taiwan’s CPC Corp. under a 25-year contract.
BG Group appealed over the heads of Origin Energy management with an A$13.8 billion (US$13Bln) hostile takeover bid for the Australian coal-seam gas company as the UK company plans to develop an LNG-from-CSG business in Australia.
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) said it will become a strategic investor in Flex LNG, having agreed to take 15 percent of the private placement of ordinary shares announced by the Norwegian offshore LNG developer.
Gas Natural, the Spanish LNG player, is likely to receive clearance this week for one of two import terminals it’s planning to construct in Italy, with a facility at the northeastern Italian port of Trieste set to be given the go-ahead.
BG Group, the leading Atlantic Basin LNG player, said it signed a preliminary agreement to supply one million tonnes per annum of LNG to Hong Kong for a period of up to 20 years.
BW Offshore said it signed a contract with Suez Energy North America for the installation of the buoy system for the US Neptune LNG facility off the coast of Massachusetts.
Gazprom, the Russian natural gas company, said it would begin exports from the Sakhalin II LNG project in the Russian Far East no later than January.
Foster Wheeler, a leading LNG engineering contractor,  said it was awarded a contract by Canada’s SNC-Lavalin for part of the front-end engineering and design of a new LNG import facility in Poland.
Total said it signed an agreement with China National Offshore Oil Corp. to cooperate in the energy field and for the French company to sell LNG to China.
Sakhalin Energy has received $5.3 billion from a consortium of international banks and lenders to finance the final stages of construction of the $20Bln Sakhalin II LNG project, according to lawyers involved in the project financing.