LNG

Sempra Energy, the California-based utility and energy company developing the Cameron LNG export plant in Louisiana, has received its draft environmental impact statement from regulators for the proposed Port Arthur LNG project in Texas, comprising the largest liquefaction Trains planned so far for a Gulf Coast venture.

LNG Canada, the export project in British Columbia led by Royal Dutch Shell, is expected to announce a final investment decision to progress with the joint venture to turn the huge surplus Canadian natural gas into LNG and ship it to nations such as China and South Korea,

US regulators have granted another request from Algonquin Gas Transmission, owned by Enbridge Inc., authorizing the placing into service of part of its Atlantic Bridge pipeline project in the state of Connecticut on its expansion route through the New England states to the Canadian Maritime provinces.

German chemicals and energy group BASF and LetterOne, the investment vehicle of Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman and chaired by former BP Chief Executive Lord Browne, signed a definitive transaction agreement to merge their respective German-based oil and gas businesses, BASF’s Wintershall and Fridman’s Deutsche Erdoel AG (DEA).