LNG

Asia-Pacific LNG stakeholder Santos said it made further progress on the front-end engineering and design phase of the Barossa offshore project with the award of three major engineering contracts to continue supplying feed-gas to the Darwin LNG plant, operated by partner ConocoPhillips since 2006.

Australian developer LNG Ltd has formally extended its turn-key engineering and construction contract for the Magnolia LNG export venture in Louisiana by six months until the end of 2018 as it seeks to finalize supply agreements with customers.

ExxonMobil Corp, southeast Australia’s biggest domestic natural gas supplier and with stakes in liquefied natural gas production in the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East, is considering importing LNG.

UK energy company and utility Centrica has teamed up with Japanese utility Tokyo Gas to sign a preliminary deal to purchase LNG volumes from the onshore Mozambique export project in southeast Africa being developed by Anadarko Petroleum of the US and joint venture partners.