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Eni, the Italian energy company, has signed an agreement with Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co. to apply new technologies to a number of Egyptian power plants in a move that may open the way for a second LNG Train at Egypt’s Damietta LNG plant.
US imports of LNG are forecast to drop to about 680 billion cubic feet of natural gas for 2008, the equivalent of around 14 million tonnes, representing a 12 percent decline from the record LNG volumes received in 2007.
Enel, the largest Italian power company, said it would receive an environmental permit during April for its planned $950 million Porto Empedocle LNG import terminal project on the island of Sicily.
ExxonMobil Corp., the No. 1 oil company, believes global LNG demand will triple over the next 20 or so years to more than 500 million tonnes per annum and will provide about one-third of natural gas needs in the Asia-Pacific region.
Enagas, the Spanish LNG terminal and natural gas network owner, said it received Europe’s largest single LNG cargo so far when a Qatari Q-Flex carrier docked at the Cartagena terminal in southern Spain.
Royal Dutch Shell may use the floating liquefaction technology it is developing to make LNG at the Prelude gas discovery in the Browse basin offshore Western Australia.
Interbeton BV, the overseas operating company of the Dutch Royal BAM Group, said it was awarded a near $190 million joint venture contract to construct an LNG jetty berth for Woodside Petroleum’s planned Pluto LNG project in Northwest Australia.
The first Chinese-built LNG carrier was handed over five months behind schedule to China LNG Shipping to deliver cargoes from the Woodside Petroleum LNG terminal in Northwest Australia to China’s Dapeng import facility in Guangdong province.
Aker Kvaerner, the builder of LNG import terminals in the US and Europe and a leading global energy services company, has changed its name to Aker Solutions. The company had been known as Aker Kvaerner for 150 years.
KBR and its joint venture partner WorleyParsons have won further contract options for Woodside Petroleum’s North Rankin 2 project, bringing to $320 million the value of  work they’ve been awarded to help in the production of more gas for the North West Shelf LNG venture.