Investigation underway on Freeport LNG fire and explosion but reports suggest damage has been limited
An investigation is under way into the explosion at the Freeport liquefied natural gas export plant at Quintana Island in Texas that could reduce US Gulf Coast cargo shipments for up to three weeks, though the overall damage was now said to be limited.
Chinese LNG fire
Nov 3 (LNGJ) - The Chinese authorities have confirmed that five people died, three were injured and one person was still missing after a fire broke out at an LNG import terminal expansion project in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The accident took place on November 2 in the LNG terminal in Tieshan Port, operated by China Oil and Gas Piping Network Corp. (PipeChina), which recently took over ownership of the facility from Chinese major Sinopec.
“The fire has been extinguished and an investigation is going on to ascertain the cause of the accident,” said the official Xinhua news agency. The report explained that the fire broke out in the petrochemical operational area of the port near an LNG storage tank.
Equinor comes to terms with Europe's only baseload LNG export plant staying shut until 2021 after fire
Equinor, the operator of the LNG export plant on Melkoya Island in Northern Norway, said that the facility would not be re-starting until early 2021 after a fire described as a very serious incident that had disturbed local residents in the nearby town of Hammerfest.
Angola LNG becomes more reliable after mixed record and signs supply deal with trader Vitol
Angola LNG, the southwest African export plant with a mixed reliability record since it came on stream in 2012, has signed a multi-year LNG sales agreement with global commodities trader Vitol.
