LNG

McDermott International, the US energy engineering company that this year completed the take over of US peer Chicago Bridge and Iron, said it completed phase two of the Greater Western Flank project Phase II to help boost LNG output in Western Australia.

Sept 3 (LNGJ) - The 145,000 cubic metres capacity carrier “Methane Nile Eagle” was unloading a shipment on September 3 at the Japanese Ohgishima import terminal at the port of Yokohama from the Woodside Petroleum Dampier export facility in Western Australia, according to shipping data. The “Maran Gas Agamemnon” was unloading a cargo on September 3 at the Altamira terminal on the Gulf Coast of Mexico from the US Sabine Pass export plant owned by Cheniere Energy. The 171,866 cubic metres capacity carrier “Tessala” was scheduled to unload a cargo on September 4 at the French Fos sur Mer terminal near Marseille from the Arzew plant in Algeria, operated by Sonatrach. The 165,500 cubic metres capacity vessel “Woodside Donaldson” left the Pluto LNG jetty at Dampier port in Western Australia bound for the Japanese Himeji terminal where it is due to unload on September 12. The 174,100 cubic metres capacity vessel “Cesi Qingdao” is scheduled to deliver a cargo on September 14 to the Tianjin terminal in northeast China, owned by Sinopec, from Australia Pacific LNG in Queensland.

Chinese LNG imports for the first six months of 2018 were led by nations such as Australia and Qatar as they increased by just over 50 percent to 23.90 million tonnes compared with 15.89MT in the same first six months of 2017.

Woodside Petroleum, the Australian liquefied natural gas operator, has promised a jobs bonanza from LNG expansion to people in the city of Karratha, adjoining the port of Dampier from where LNG exports are shipped, as well as in the state of Western Australia and the Pilbara region.

Nov 3 (LNGJ) - The 147,000 cubic metres capacity vessel “Dapeng Star” is lifting a cargo from the Woodside operated North West Shelf plant after docking at the Withnell Bay jetty at the Western Australian port of Dampier. The shipment is headed on the Hong Kong-flagged vessel for the Chinese Guangdong terminal on the Pearl River delta. The 152,300 cubic metres capacity “Seri Begawan”, operated by Malaysia International Shipping Corp., has docked at the Santos-operated Gladstone LNG plant in Queensland, Australia, to lift a cargo for Asia.