LNG

The Western Australian Gorgon LNG plant on Barrow Island is ramping up after a scheduled maintenance programme at a time when spot prices are at a low level, though steady oil prices are underpinning long-term contract values.

Qatargas, the leading global liquefaction and LNG export company, has achieved a landmark 2,000th cargo delivery to India to help the Asian nation’s transformation to the use of cleaner fuel and to reduce pollution in cities such as Mumbai.

McDermott International and Zachry Group of the US, along with Chiyoda Corp. of Japan, say that Train 2 at the Freeport liquefaction and export plant on Quintana Island in Texas has begun producing LNG and its first cargo would be shipped soon as Gulf Coast output increases from the plant…

Cheniere Energy has been granted an extension to its permit for the completion of the sixth processing Train at the Sabine Pass export plant in Louisiana.