Australian LNG exports in June amounted to a total of 5.47 million tonnes and an estimated 81 cargoes as annual shipments grew, taking the nation closer to becoming the largest global exporter with sustained Chinese demand remaining the regional highlight.
Papua New Guinea LNG stakeholder Oil Search posted lower revenues from liquefied natural gas and other sales because of the effects of recovering from the earthquake that struck PNG in February, though production was now back to normal amid progress on LNG expansion.
TransCanada Corp., the North American pipeline company with plans for LNG plant connections in British Columbia and elsewhere in the region, said it had placed into service a key Mexican pipeline across the border from the US states of Texas and New Mexico.
The American Bureau of Shipping, the US maritime classification society, said it was chosen by Petroleum Pipeline Corp. of Turkey to class a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) ordered in South Korea.
South Korean liquefied natural gas imports rose by 8.8 percent in June compared with a year ago as shipments arrived from main supplier Qatar and other nations, including Australia, the US, Oman, Indonesia and Malaysia, which delivered a cargo from its floating plant offshore Sarawak.
Woodside Petroleum, the operator of two liquefied natural gas export plants in Western Australia, has showcased its new corporate headquarters in the state capital Perth, complete with Aboriginal artworks and campus-style design.
Peru LNG has shipped three cargoes so far in July to three separate pricing areas of the Atlantic and Pacific Basins from its liquefaction facility at Pampa Melchorita, the only LNG export plant in South America.
Dominion Energy, owner of the Cove Point liquefied natural gas liquefaction facility on Chesapeake Bay in the state of Maryland, has had the transaction for its acquisition of Scana Corp. and its South Carolina natural gas and power assets approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Novatek, the Russian natural gas company and operator of the Yamal liquefaction and export plant at Sabetta in Siberia, has boosted its first-half natural gas sales with LNG export volumes.
Cheniere Energy has formally applied to US regulators for permits to expand the liquefaction and export plant in Corpus Christi in Texas with the addition of seven mid-scale Trains with 9.5 million tonnes per annum of production, taking the total output of 23 MTPA.