The American Bureau of Shipping, the US classification society, said a small-scale LNG carrier, the world’s first such vessel to be fitted with an innovative cargo containment system based on IMO requirements for independent type A tanks, has been delivered to the shipping line from the Chinese shipbuilders.
Freeport LNG shipped its first cargo from the second liquefaction Train at the export facility on Quintana Island in Texas.
Japanese liquefied natural gas imports dropped last month and cost around 18 percent less than a year ago as the nation continued to reduce its annual cargo requirements, though Australian shipments remained substantial.
TC Energy, the Canada-based pipeline company, has asked US regulators to increase delivery capacity on its North Baja Pipeline to the US-Mexican border to serve the Costa Azul LNG export venture on the Pacific Coast of Mexico.
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), backed by the Chinese government, said it was investing $500 million in an LNG import project near Tianjin port in northeast China to help support efforts to reduce air pollution.
The latest completed LNG import in the West Coast of India, the Mundra LNG terminal in the state of Gujarat, is expected to receive its first cargo in the weeks ahead after being mechanically completed about a year ago and now issuing a tender.
The position of natural gas in the African energy mix varies widely across the continent, with gas overtaking oil as a primary energy source in North Africa, while in the sub-Saharan region it is currently a low-level domestic supplier but a source of LNG export revenue for nations like Angola…
The South Korean government has approved a draft law for the nation to be at the forefront of developing eco-friendly ships powered by clean fuel such as LNG at its world-leading shipyards.
Woodside, the Australian energy company and LNG plant operator, said that its A-6 Development offshore Myanmar in southeast Asia has now moved from exploration and appraisal to the pre-front-end engineering design phase.
German technology has been chosen for the first floating liquefaction and export plants being developed offshore Senegal and Mauritania in West Africa by BP of the UK and Dallas-based Kosmos Energy.