Essar Ports, the Indian company with established port terminal operations, said it was considering the development of up to four medium-scale liquefied natural gas import facilities on India’s west and east coasts.
Samsung Heavy Industries, one of the three major global shipyards based in South Korea, has showcased to around 20 shipping companies its own liquefied natural gas regasification system for future installation on floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) newbuilds.
US liquefied natural gas exports increased over the past week to six cargoes shipped from the Cheniere Energy Sabine Pass export plant in Louisiana with a combined LNG capacity of 20.8 billion cubic feet as domestic demand also jumped, led by Florida gas-fired power needs after Hurricane Irma.
BP of the UK, a leading global LNG market participant and North America’s largest natural gas supplier, is now delivering 200,000 million British thermal units per day to Mexico’s industrial users and local distribution companies in eight states.
Australian exploration and production company Sacgasco has seen its shares rise by as much as 80 percent since it issued a report on a gas project in the Sacramento Basin of the US state of California suggesting the well could be coming on stream soon and that the area could…
Fluxys, the Belgian natural gas network operator, posted an increase in turnover due to the start of contracts for gas transmission between the French Channel port of Dunkirk, whose new LNG terminal is linked to the Zeebrugge gas hub, and by more activity linked to the shutdown of the UK’s largest…
Qatargas is set to become the key liquefied natural gas supplier to Turkey after Algeria under a medium-term sales and purchase agreement signed with Botas Petroleum Pipeline Corp. of Turkey, the fourth-largest net importing nation in Europe.
Angola LNG, the southwest African exporter, has signed its third international sales agreement of September with Anglo-Swiss multinational commodities and mining company Glencore after concluding previous deals with German utility and energy company RWE and Swiss-based global commodities firm Vitol.
Indian LNG imports for August declined by 2.9 percent, reversing a rise the previous month as volume costs continued to increase and the nation diversified its suppliers while boosting domestic production of natural gas.
Japanese liquefied natural gas imports dropped 6 percent last month as cargo costs continued to rise and shipments from Australia and the spot market were favoured over Asian and Middle East volumes.