LNG

Fluor Corp. of US and Japan’s JGC Corp. of Japan have completed the final weld on first liquefaction Train at the LNG Canada joint venture at Kitimat on the Pacific Coast province of British Columbia.

Malaysian state energy company Petronas said the company was expanding its LNG fleet by three vessels to handle cargoes from the LNG Canada export project in British Colombia where Petronas is a shareholder.

Chart Industries, the US equipment-maker for liquefied natural gas and other clean energy and industrial gases markets, reported a record backlog of more than $4.3 billion as LNG orders continued to flow from North America to China.

TC Energy Corp., the North American pipeline operator already supplying two LNG projects with feed-gas near Kitimat in British Columbia via the Coastal GasLink, has linked up with another First Nation-backed LNG project near Prince Rupert in BC with a potential feed-gas pipeline sale deal.

Pembina Pipeline Corp., the leading Canadian energy pipeline and midstream company with a network of gas gathering, processing and energy export terminals in North America and a stake the planned Cedar LNG project in British Columbia, has agreed to issue $1.8 billion of senior unsecured medium-term notes.

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), the South Korean shipbuilder, has put a value of US$1.5 billion on the floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility recently ordered for the Canadian Cedar LNG joint venture in the Douglas Channel near Kitimat in British Columbia and modelled on an African FLNG vessel.

Jan 5 (LNGJ) - The Haisla Nation and Pembina Pipeline Corp., equal partners in the development of the proposed Cedar LNG project in the Douglas Sound near Kitimat in British Columbia, have selected South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries and US firm Black & Veatch to provide engineering, procurement and construction for the design, fabrication and delivery of the project's floating LNG (FLNG) production unit, subject to a final investment decision.

   “This is a critical milestone on our path towards an FID for Cedar LNG, the first Indigenous majority-owned LNG project in the world,” stated Doug Arnell, Cedar LNG Chief Executive. “We have secured world-class FLNG expertise and look forward to working with SHI and Black & Veatch to build an LNG facility with one of the cleanest environmental profiles in the world that will usher in a new era of low carbon, sustainable LNG production,” Arnell added. Cedar LNG noted that it had major regulatory approvals, had signed memoranda of understanding for long-term liquefaction services for the project's total LNG capacity and expected an FID in the first quarter 2024.

Pembina Pipeline Corp., the leading Canadian energy pipeline and midstream company with a network of gas gathering, processing and energy export terminals in North America has given a business update including spending plans and a final investment decision date for the planned Cedar LNG project in British Columbia.

Canadian Spirit Resources Inc., which recently reactivated natural gas production at Farrell Creek in Northeast British Columbia, is aiming for a share in supplying feed gas to regional LNG export projects as it outlined the advantages and challenges of operating in the Montney Shale basin.

The Premier of the Canadian oil and gas province of Alberta said the provincial government aimed to invoke the sovereignty act to reject Federal clean energy regulations aimed at Alberta’s gas-fired power plants.