Siemens, the German supplier of compressors for LNG plants, said it secured an order for four motor-driven main refrigerant compressors for liquefaction Trains to be installed in a planned LNG plant in Indonesia.
Malaysia LNG, a unit of state energy company Petronas, said it signed a 15-year deal with Osaka Gas to supply the Japanese utility with 920,000 tonnes per annum of LNG.
Golar LNG said it raised around $77 million from a share sale to help finance the purchase from Royal Dutch Shell of the LNG carrier Granatina which could be converted into a Floating Regasification and Storage Unit.
Woodside Petroleum, a current and future LNG supplier to China, said it signed a deal to supply LNG to Taiwan from its planned Browse Basin project in northwest Australia.
Technip, the French LNG engineering and construction firm, said progress was being made on the three LNG Trains the company is working on in Qatar with the mobilization of additional resources.
Australias Woodside Petroleum said it was looking for additional global LNG assets but even under its current strategy it expected to be the worlds No. 4 LNG company by 2015, as it brought a new Train on stream every two years.
JGC Corp. the Japanese LNG engineering and construction company currently working on contracts in the Middle East and Asia, said six-month net income rose to 16.4 billion yen ($148M) compared with 9.2Bln yen a year ago.
Petrobras, Brazil's national energy company, said its planned LNG investments and agreements would be unaffected by its announcement of a massive oil find offshore Rio de Janeiro that could move it into the top 10 of global oil companies.
Cheniere Energy said it was holding a non-binding open season for a proposed new natural gas pipeline project called the Louisiana Natural Gas Header that would link US LNG imports into the Gulf of Mexico to markets in the US Southeast.
Project delays and the high price of crude oil are contributing to a slowdown in the development of the LNG industry, senior executives said at the 20th World Energy Congress in Rome.