LNG

Qatar Gas Transport Company, the Gulf state’s LNG carrier fleet operator, has now transferred 10 vessels from the maritime management of Royal Dutch Shell to its own subsidiary.

KBR, the US energy engineering company, said it was awarded pre-front end engineering and design and project support services contracts by BP of the UK for the development of the Tortue-Ahmeyim gas fields offshore Mauritania and Senegal that will form the basis of two floating LNG projects.

Japanese liquefied natural gas imports rebounded in July as a fall in shipments from other Asian countries was offset by more Middle East cargoes as well as Russian and US deliveries.

Commonwealth LNG, a US export project in Louisiana, has initiated its pre-filing environmental review process with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a liquefaction plant in Louisiana with 9 million tonnes per annum of capacity.