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.

Royal Vopak of the Netherlands has reached a positive final investment decision with Canada’s AltaGas to proceed with a large-scale energy and bulk liquids terminal at Ridley Island in the Canadian Pacific province of British Columbia.

Chart Industries, the US LNG equipment-maker and industrial gases company, has received a key order from the Cedar floating LNG project being developed in the Canadian Pacific province of British Columbia.

Feb 24 (LNGJ) - Pembina Pipeline Corp., the Calgary-based North American pipelines and terminals operator, said in its latest earnings statement that it planned to advance the development of two “transformational projects” in Canada, the Cedar LNG project and the Alberta Carbon Grid and expected a regulatory decision soon on the Cedar joint venture.

   Pembina has formed a partnership with the Haisla First Nation to develop the Cedar LNG project on the Douglas Channel of British Columbia. “Given Cedar LNG will be a floating facility, manufactured in the controlled conditions of a shipyard, it is expected that the project will have lower construction and execution risk,” stated Pembina. The company added that the Environmental Assessment was likely to be decided on by BC Ministers as well as the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change in the first quarter of 2023.

A First Nation-led liquefied natural gas export project proposed for near the port of Prince Rupert on the northern Pacific coast of British Columbia has been awarded a 40-year natural gas export licence.

Pembina Pipeline Corp., the Canadian pipelines company and joint owner of the Cedar floating liquefied natural gas project, has entered into definitive agreements valued at around US$9 billion with US investment giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) to combine their respective Western Canada natural gas processing assets into a single joint venture entity.

TC Energy Corp., one of North America’s leading pipeline companies and LNG feed-gas suppliers, posted a first-half loss because of the cancellation of the Keystone oil pipeline to the US and is also in a dispute over the Coast GasLink for Canadian LNG projects in British Columbia.

Cedar LNG in Canada,  a proposed floating export plant backed by the Haisla First Nation in the province of British Columbia, is the subject of a funding offer for citizens to take part in the Canadian federal government's impact assessment as the venture moves forward.

The Canadian province of British Columbia and Premier John Horgan toured the site of a US$450 million propane export terminal on Ridley Island under construction for natural gas company AltaGas and said LNG projects were still possible in the future as he also visited the site of a cancelled Royal Dutch Shell LNG venture.

Royal Dutch Vopak, the energy storage giant with LNG terminal assets in Holland and Mexico, and Canadian company AltaGas plan to develop an alternative gas export terminal on Ridley Island in British Columbia where an LNG venture had been planned by BG Group of the UK, now part of Shell.