Wood Group of the UK has secured a front-end engineering and design contract from Gastrade for the Alexandroupolis LNG import project planned for offshore Greece and involving shipping company GasLog.
The Panama Canal has celebrated the one-year anniversary of the entry into operation of its expanded locks and said that during the 12 months there had been almost 140 transits by LNG carriers.
Carrizo Oil & Gas, the Houston, Texas-based exploration and production company, is advancing with its properties in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas and the Niobrara formation in Colorado after attracting four of India’s biggest LNG and oil and gas players as joint venture partners.
Australian energy company Santos, a stakeholder in three Asia-Pacific LNG export plants, has started a strategic partnership with two Chinese companies and this will include upstream investment in natural gas in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
PTT Group, the state energy company of Thailand, has set up a trading unit called PTT Global LNG Co. to increase its marketing presence ahead of the construction of more import infrastructure to handle its future volumes from the Mozambique liquefaction project in southeast Africa and other possible ventures.
Aker Solutions of Norway was awarded a contract to deliver umbilicals and associated equipment for the Coral floating liquefied natural gas project being developed offshore the southeast African nation of Mozambique by Italian energy company Eni and partners.
Australian engineering company Monadelphous said it won another new contract for the Ichthys LNG project in Darwin with a combined value of around A$170 million, a week after winning a A$600M maintenance contracts from LNG operator Woodside Petroleum in Western Australia.
Cheniere Energy and Korea Gas Corp. formally celebrated the start of their 20-year Sales and Purchase Agreement to supply US-sourced LNG to the South Korean utility’s four import terminals from the Sabine Pass liquefaction facility in Louisiana.
Corpus Christi LNG, the second Cheniere Energy liquefaction and export plant to add to the Houston-based company’s volumes from the Sabine Pass facility in Louisiana, said the project was more than 65 percent complete and the first processing Train would be ready for commercial operations in the first half of…
Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass LNG export plant in Louisiana sent out 15 cargoes and narrowed its monthly delivery count to seven different nations compared with nine previously and the majority went to South American and Latin American countries, according to the latest detailed data from the US Department of Energy.