German LNG Terminal GmbH, the development company of the onshore import facility at Brunsbüttel on the Elbe River south of the port of Hamburg and adjacent to the Kiel Canal, has signed up three leading energy companies as long-term foundation customers for regasification capacity.
Two of the UK’s leading shale-gas companies, IGas Energy and Cuadrilla Resources, have welcomed the Government’s commitment to domestic gas production and repeated their pledge to give a share of revenues to local people near the existing likely shale-gas production sites in the North of England.
Ineos Group, the UK multinational chemicals company with ethane trading links to the US Gulf Coast, has signed an accord with Sempra Infrastructure to secure future cargoes from the planned Port Arthur LNG export project in Texas or the expansion of the existing Cameron LNG plant at Hackberry in Louisiana.
Delek Group of Israel, the company with stakes in the giant Leviathan field in the Eastern Mediterranean set to come on stream in 2020, said it was one of the bidders for UK North Sea oil and natural gas assets being sold by Chevron Corp. of the US.
French energy major Total said it made a large natural gas discovery on its Glendronach prospect offshore the UK, West of Shetland, amid recent reductions in LNG imports to the country’s three main terminals.