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Friday, 02 November 2018

Alaska LNG hinges on Chinese funding, FID planned in 2019

Free ReadRegardless of the trade war between the United States and China, state-controlled Sinopec has reaffirmed plans to reserve 75% of the project's LNG production capacity. Sinopec wants to become the…
Friday, 02 November 2018

Shell is “not going soft” on oil and gas, warns of LNG “supply crunch”

Royal Dutch Shell will keep investing in global gas projects as demand is anticipated to grow at a rate of 2% per year, twice the rate to worldwide energy demand.…
Friday, 02 November 2018

Brazil: Golar on the lookout for new investments

Golar LNG chairman Tor Olav Troim said he is looking for the next opportunity, encouraged by investors embracing the $1.74 billion integrated LNG-to-power project in Brazil. Golar Power, a venture…
Friday, 02 November 2018

Woodfibre LNG to start construction in Q1-2019

Free ReadDavid Keane, President of Canada’s Woodfibre LNG project, has announced the imminent construction start for the brownfield liquefaction facility, licensed to export over 2 mtpa of LNG for 40 years.…
Friday, 02 November 2018

US exports to Mexico rise after MPL gets Sonora LNG approved

More shale gas produced in Texas will soon cross the border to Mexico after the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) approved an application by Mexico Pacific Ltd (MPL) to export…
Friday, 02 November 2018

Second wave of U.S. LNG projects gather pace

Tightening in global LNG markets has allowed the second wave of US LNG ventures to gain momentum again. Since early 2018, a second wave of projects set to bring more…
Friday, 02 November 2018

Peak oil forecast for 2023, followed by a peak in gas demand by 2034

Free ReadAnticipating a speedy energy transition globally, the global classification society DVN GV says upstream players are adapting to this trend by shifting to faster, leaner and cleaner hydrocarbon production techniques.…
Friday, 02 November 2018

China’s coal-to-gas switch boosts LNG demand

Coal-to-gas switch policies in China’s energy sector are expected to boost the country’s LNG demand by a 12 million tons in 2018, exceeding last year’s record growth of 8 mt. Already…
Friday, 02 November 2018

AES forges ahead with LNG-to-power project in Panama

AES Colón – a $1.15 billion LNG import terminal and adjacent combined-cycle power plant – is being fast-tracked in Panama. The project comprises the first LNG regas terminal in Central…
Friday, 02 November 2018

‘Producer economies’ need to diversify, hedge against price volatility

Free ReadThe International Energy Agency (IEA) has called on Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, the UEA, Nigeria and Venezuela to step up efforts to diversify their economies to be able to cope…
Friday, 02 November 2018

Iran produces less oil and gas since U.S. threatened sanctions

Since the Trump administration threatened fresh sanctions against Iran, the oil-rich country has substantially scaled down its production and exports of crude oil and natural gas. In May 2018, the…
Friday, 02 November 2018

How analytics are giving process industries the edge

Unplanned downtime can cost an LNG facility as much as $4 million per day. With potential costs so high, profitability is largely linked with unplanned downtime. According to GE Power…
Friday, 02 November 2018

LNGo solution allows Altagas to monetize stranded gas

Free ReadDresser-Rand, part of Siemens Group, has commissioned an LNGo-HP (high-pressure) micro-scale natural gas liquefaction system for Altagas Ltd. in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada. Producing approximately 30,000 gallons of LNG…
Friday, 02 November 2018

Sempra get draft EIS for Port Arthur LNG in Texas

Sempra Energy, developer of the Cameron LNG export plant in Louisiana, has received its draft environmental impact statement from regulators for the proposed Port Arthur LNG project in Texas, comprising the…
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Kinder Morgan sells 25% stake in Chicago city-gas supplier

US pipeline operator Kinder Morgan said a minority stake of 25 percent had been sold in the 9,000-mile Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, which supplies city gas to Chicago and feed gas to LNG plants on the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana. Kinder Morgan and the other joint owner of the pipeline, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners of Canada, sold the NGPL stake to a fund controlled by ArcLight Capital Partners, based in Boston, Massachusetts, and specialising in energy sector investment. “The value of the minority interest implies an enterprise value of about $5.2 billion for NGPL, representing 11.2 times its 2020 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization,” said a statement from Kinder Morgan and Brookfield. Kinder Morgan and Brookfield said they would each hold a 37.5 percent interest in NGPL following the closing of the ArcLight deal and Kinder would continue to operate the pipeline.