One of only a few planned baseload LNG liquefaction plants not involving a major oil company or a state-owned energy firm will come on stream in Indonesia in just over a year, project developer Energy World Corp. said at the Gastech conference in Bangkok, Thailand.
Brunei LNG said significant investments were being made along the value chain to prove up reserves and to upgrade equipment and the carrier fleet to extend the lifespan of one of the worlds oldest liquefaction projects.
The LNG spot market has revealed a seasonal pattern developing for deliveries to the US and one company alone sold spot cargoes to 14 different countries in the last 18 months, the Gastech energy conference in Bangkok, Thailand, was told.
Mitsui & Co, the Japanese trading house and LNG player, said it received the concession from Mexico along with Korea Gas Corp. and Samsung Corp. of South Korea to build and operate the planned LNG terminal in Manzanillo city on Mexicos Pacific coast.
Royal Dutch Shell has come up with a design for a floating LNG production unit with capacity for 3.5 million tonnes per annum when sited over any offshore gas field, and has also patented a system to reduce shutdowns at onshore LNG plants.
Chevron Corp. said it plans to develop a new Australian LNG project called Wheatstone LNG based on a 100 percent-owned natural gas discovery in addition to its other LNG asset developments in Australia, the North West Shelf LNG project and Gorgon LNG.
Maple LNG, the import project being developed in Nova Scotia by 4Gas of the Netherlands and partners, received their final environmental approval from the Canadian Federal Government.
Canadas National Energy Board said it rejected a portion of the pipeline route proposed by Brunswick Pipeline Co. to link the Canaport LNG terminal in St John, New Brunswick, to the international border with the US.
ExxonMobil, the main foreign partner in the worlds largest LNG production operation in Qatar, said it expected to start up multiple projects over the next three years across the full value chain of the LNG business and would spend $125 billion in major energy projects including LNG.
ICA Fluor, the engineering arm of Fluor Corp., said it was awarded a $100 million contract from Sempra Energy to build a nitrogen injection plant and power generation facility inside the new Costa Azul LNG import terminal on Mexico's Pacific coast.