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Cheniere Energy, said the first commissioning cargo of liquefied natural gas has loaded and departed from its US Corpus Christi liquefaction facility in Texas, marking the first export of LNG from the state and from a greenfield liquefaction facility in the lower 48 states.
Jera Co Inc. of Japan, already the nation’s largest LNG importer, will become Japan's biggest power generation company when it assumes the domestic power  businesses of Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Chubu Electric Power Co. in April 2019, giving it control of about half of Japan's power market.
Japanese spot LNG delivered cargo prices surged to an average of $11.50 per million British thermal units in November, a rise of $4.40 per MMBtu compared with the price a year ago of $7.10 per MMBtu.
US LNG exports are expected to amount to 60 million tonnes per annum by the end of 2019, making the Americans the world’s third-largest exporters as more projects come on stream and are ramped up on the US Gulf Coast, including Cameron LNG in Louisiana and Freeport and Corpus Christi…
Alaska Governor Michael J. Dunleavy will travel to Washington DC to meet President Donald Trump on December 13 and is expected to discuss the state’s liquefied natural gas export project and the importance of Chinese investment from companies such as China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., known as Sinopec, and Chinese…
Trafigura, the international commodities firm, said its delivered liquefied natural gas volumes rose by 22 percent in the past year as demand rose in both China and South Korea and it expected a bouyant 2019.
Qatar Petroleum said it signed an agreement with US major ExxonMobil, its main partner in the Qatari Ras Laffan LNG production complex, to acquire a 10 percent participating interest in three exploration blocks offshore the southeast African nation of Mozambique, one of the newest LNG developers.
The Egyptian Government has approved the sale of stakes to BP of the UK and Mubadala Petroleum of the United Arab Emirates in the Nour North Sinai offshore exploration concession after both companies had previously invested in the huge Zohr field that enabled the Egyptians to re-start LNG exports.
Australia has overtaken Qatar as the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas for the first time in November, according to data, though will not be the largest on an annual basis until the end of 2019.
Tokyo Gas has confirmed the signing of an agreement with Philippines power company First Gen Corp. to jointly develop a liquefied natural gas import terminal hub project in Batangas province to meet the gas-fired power needs of the capital Manila and the surrounding region.