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Alaska LNG has signed an accord with Japanese utility and importer Tokyo Gas for the sale of cargoes as well as a commitment to explore other opportunities for the Japanese in the project to use feed-gas from the US state's North Slope for processing at a large-scale liquefaction plant.
Wison Offshore and Marine, the Chinese company whose shipyard affiliate has expertise in the floating LNG sector, has signed a cooperation agreement that could lead to China building more floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) to act as import facilities.
Australia is heading into 2018 with a revived oil and gas industry with production at record levels, including LNG output and revenue as well as domestic gas supplies.
Canada will import more shale gas from the US by the eastern route, potentially straight to the federal capital Ottawa, from where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has led the regulatory onslaught against the hydrocarbon industry.
US major ExxonMobil Corp has signed production sharing contracts with the government of Mauritania for three deepwater offshore blocks in the waters of the West African nation undertaking floating LNG projects with neighbouring Senegal.
The Chinese National Development and Reform Commission has urged natural gas supply companies to “standardize price behaviour” amid a surge in demand for pipeline natural gas and LNG for delivery to import facilities such as Tangshan and Tianjin as colder weather hits Northern China.
LNG Ltd, the developer of two North American LNG export projects, said it had agreed to extend the financial closing date for an offtake agreement with Meridian LNG Holdings Corp., the owner of an import venture proposed for offshore Cumbria in northwest England.
Qatar National Bank said the Gulf state’s LNG production overseen by Qatar Petroleum would continue to seek long-term contracts to ensure stable output and to use oil price indexation.
Steelhead LNG, one of the few remaining Vancouver-based energy companies focused on liquefied natural gas project development in the province of British Columbia, has changed the name of its Sarita venture to reflect the participation of its First Nation tribal partners.
Chevron Corp. and its joint venture partners in the US$34-billion Wheatstone LNG project in Western Australia have held a ceremony at the completed plant near Onslow to celebrate its success.