Indian liquefied natural gas imports rose for a seventh month in the current fiscal year as the increase in volumes gathered pace with cargoes arriving from Qatar and West African nations such as Nigeria and Angola.
Cheniere Energy, the leading US LNG export company through its Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana and the Corpus Christi facility in Texas, is on its way to becoming a world-scale producer, behind only Australia and Qatar, with the approval by US regulators of its Texan expansion venture using mid-scale liquefaction…
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorized three LNG export projects around the Texas Port of Brownsville comprising multiple liquefaction Trains and around 37 million tonnes per annum of output, along with investments amounting to almost $39 million to create thousands of jobs in the Gulf Coast port region.
Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French technology firm for designs of systems for the maritime transportation and storage of liquefied natural gas, said it had completed an LNG terminal and bunkering training simulator for the Maritime Training Centre in Hamburg to develop personnel skills before Germany makes its debut as…
Sonatrach, the Algerian national energy company now under a new chief executive, said it signed medium-term and long-term LNG and pipeline natural gas contracts with French utility Engie, the last of its European customers to renew delivery agreements.
Hoegh LNG, the Norwegian shipping and project company, said the global market continued to grow as it was selected for three floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) contracts and with various tenders also being processed as lower natural gas prices are helping import infrastructure demand in Asia.
Siem Industries, the company run by Norwegian Kristian Siem and whose interests include shipping and offshore oil and gas engineering and services through the Subsea 7 company and Siem Offshore Inc., has attended the naming ceremony for its two LNG-powered car carriers at the Chinese Xiamen Shipbuilding yard in southeastern…
DNG Energy, a South African infrastructure provider, said it was preparing to start liquefied natural gas fuel services at the nation’s largest bunkering port at Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape province near the city of Port Elizabeth.
Sea-LNG, a global coalition of energy and shipping companies and other sector participants backing the increased use of liquefied natural gas as a maritime fuel, has signed up US LNG equipment-maker Chart Industries as the newest member.
Mitsui Osk Lines, the Japanese shipping company with an operating fleet of almost 100 liquefied natural gas carriers, said it planned to order the first two LNG-powered ferries for Japan from Mitsubishi Shipbuilding.