LNG

The US Bureau of Land Management issued an approval for a scaled-back version of a ConocoPhillips $7 billion oil and gas drilling project in Alaska, though also banned future energy activities on huge tracts of land in the state though the Alaska LNG export project is still expected to be given a full go-ahead soon.

Australian LNG plant operator Santos has started front-end engineering and design for the Dorado project in the Bedout Sub-Basin offshore Western Australia and expects to boost natural gas supplies for the domestic market.