Japan s Chiyoda Corp., Frances Technip and Fluor Corp. of the US said they won contracts from Australias Woodside Energy to carry out studies covering the Browse LNG and Pluto LNG projects.
Excelerate Energy, the offshore and dockside LNG terminal developer, has set up an import facility for Argentina at the port city of Bahía Blanca, about 400 miles south of Buenos Aires.
BG Group, the leading Atlantic Basin LNG operator, said it signed an agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries of South Korea for the delivery of two dual-fuel, diesel-electric LNG carriers.
Tokyo Gas Co. said at a conference in Houston it was in talks with the Tangguh LNG project to buy offtake on a five-year contract for very high prices that was previously contracted to Sempra Energy of the US.
LNG Impel of Canada announced development plans for a venture called Southern Cross LNG, which would be an open-access liquefaction plant for coal-seam gas producers in the Australian state of Queensland.
ConocoPhillips told an LNG conference in Houston that the idea of a new Alaskan LNG project to monetize 35 trillion cubic feet of North Slope natural gas reserves was dead.
Sempra LNG said its new LNG import terminal at Costa Azul on the West coast of Mexico was ready to receive commercial cargoes on behalf of itself and Royal Dutch Shell.
Canadas Rabaska LNG project has signed a deal with Russias Gazprom to receive LNG volumes from the Shtokman LNG project under development in the Barents Sea.
Teekay LNG, the carrier operator of Canadas Teekay Corp., said cash flow from LNG carrier operations rose to $35M in the first quarter of 2008 from $27.5M for the same period a year ago, reflecting the delivery of the last two RasGas II project vessels.
Portugals energy company Galp has signed a preliminary agreement to take a stake in an LNG liquefaction project planned in Venezuela that could eventually lead to deliveries to the Portuguese LNG import terminal at Sines.