Chart Industries, the US liquefied natural gas equipment-maker and industrial gases company, has named Jillian C. Evanko as Chief Executive and President to replace incumbent William C. Johnson and has elected her to the board.
Australian pipeline company APA Group that controls connections to LNG plants in the states of Queensland and Western Australia and is building a pipeline to a new FLNG import project near Melbourne has received a A$13 billion (US$9.8 billion) takeover offer from a Chinese consortium
Cheniere Energy is making progress on the first two liquefaction Trains at the $13 billion Corpus Christi export project being constructed in Texas as the first gas is being introduced to Train one.
Growing US natural gas output in 2018 and 2019 will support increasing shorter-term forecasts of more liquefied natural gas exports from Sabine Pass in Louisiana and Cove Point in Maryland.
Qatar Gas Transport Co. (QGTC), the LNG shipping company of Qatar, has signed an agreement with US floating import project company Excelerate Energy to form a joint venture firm and as a start has acquired a 55 percent interest in a floating storage regasification unit.
AGL Energy of Australia said it signed two agreements in relation to its proposed liquefied natural gas import jetty planned for Crib Point in the state of Victoria, one of two regasification projects planned for the southeast of the country to underpin gas supplies.
Zeebrugge LNG Terminal, owned by Belgian company Fluxys, has begun the first loading operations for the small-scale carrier “Coral EnergICE”, an Ice-Class vessel designed to make year-round deliveries of break-bulk cargoes to Scandinavian ports.
The United States expects to increase its role in global liquefied natural gas trading as more liquefaction and export plants come on stream in the southern states, including Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
Asian LNG producer Indonesia is advancing with its exploration and production activities in Algeria by awarding an engineering and construction contract to increase natural gas capacity for one of the fields it operates in the North African nation.
The average price paid by Japanese buyers of spot LNG cargoes contracted in May was $8.20 per million British thermal units compared with $5.70 per MMBtu in the same month of 2017, though was lower than the previous month.