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Royal Dutch Shell’s ship management division is scheduled to sign an agreement in Washington today with the American Maritime Officers Union for AMO deck and engine officers to be recruited for Shell-managed LNG carriers.
Royal Dutch Shell said first-quarter LNG sales volumes were a record 3.51 million tonnes, as its division including LNG posted 18 percent higher earnings of $948 million, boosted by spot cargo sales and Nigerian output.
Fluor Corp. of the US confirmed it was awarded a contract worth $320 million for the engineering, procurement and construction management of a new LNG import terminal at El Musel on Spain's north coast.
AES Corp.’s planned Sparrows Point LNG import terminal near the US city of   Baltimore has progressed after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled the facility would have limited adverse environmental impact.
Quoddy Bay LNG, the import terminal venture planned on a Native American reservation in the state of Maine, has had its application suspended by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for failing to provide specific information on project revisions.
StatoilHydro’s Snøhvit LNG project is unlikely to reach full production until the end of 2009 and faces temporary summer shutdowns over the next two years.
Zeebrugge LNG terminal in Belgium, soon to come under the ownership of the merged Gaz de France-Suez, has put its expanded facilities into operation and is now able to receive as many as 110 LNG cargoes a year.
Aker Solutions, the Norway-based contractor, has removed a $660 million joint venture engineering, procurement and construction contract for a US LNG terminal from its backlog because the company involved has failed to give notice to proceed.
Korea Gas Corp., one of the world’s largest corporate buyers of LNG and a terminal operator for 25 years, is currently helping China National Offshore Oil Corp. to bring into service its new Fujian LNG import terminal.
South Korea, the world’s second-largest LNG importer after Japan, paid an average 34 percent more for its LNG imports last month than it did a year ago as prices rose from $616 per tonne from $459 per tonne in the same month last year.