Hoegh LNG, the Norwegian fleet owner and project developer, said imports through floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) continued to rise with China, Turkey and Pakistan contributing and there were 13 other global tenders currently pending.
APA Group, Australia’s leading energy infrastructure business with natural gas pipelines spanning every Australian state, said it had entered into a new agreement for gas transportation and storage services from Queensland to southern markets amid plans by several other companies to set up LNG regasification terminals to re-distribute supplies.
Pieridae Energy, the Canadian company developing the Goldboro LNG project in the Atlantic Coast province of Nova Scotia, has retained bankers to raise US$10 billion in equity and project financing.
Texas LNG Brownsville, the liquefaction and export plant proposed for the Gulf Coast, said the US Coast Guard issued a recommendation to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission confirming the suitability of the Brownsville Ship Channel for the facility's marine traffic in terms of safety and security.
Gladstone LNG, the coal-seam-gas-to-LNG plant in the eastern Australian state of Queensland, plans to invest A$900 million (US$700M) in upstream development to underpin production and exports.
Australian energy company Santos said that natural gas production at the Papua New Guinea LNG’s Hides gas conditioning plant and the Kutubu gas facilities in the PNG Highlands remained shut down as a precautionary measure, along with the liquefaction plant, following a major earthquake and a series of aftershocks.
Sempra Energy, the California-based utility transforming the US Cameron LNG terminal in Louisiana into an export plant, is still planning a Mexican LNG export venture with national Petroleos Mexicano (Pemex) first studied three years ago.
Royal Dutch Shell said the global LNG market has continued to defy expectations with demand growing by 29 million tonnes to 293MT last year, though there was potential for shortages because of a lack of new investment.
Japanese companies Marubeni Corp. and Jera Co. Inc. have joined an Australian investment and energy group to reveal plans for a liquefied natural gas import facility near Sydney to make up the domestic natural gas shortfall on the East Coast.
Australia-listed LNG Ltd said it was in a strong competitive position in the mid-scale industry with two North American projects close to construction, Magnolia LNG in Louisiana and Bear Head LNG in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and key decisions could be expected in 2018.