LNG

Brazil is seeking more natural gas to meet rising gas-fired power needs and has held talks with Argentina and Bolivia on reversing pipeline flows to transport Argentinian supplies from the Vaca Muerta shale-gas basin.

The US Freeport LNG export plant on Quintana Island in Texas has announced scheduled shut-downs of its liquefaction Trains for repairs and maintenance and de-bottlenecking to  boost output in the future.

One of the world’s leading annual energy conferences, CERAWeek, was scheduled to begin in Houston on March 6 and will continue through March 10 with thousands of industry executives and politicians attending to consider the current turbulent global market.