LNG

TechnipFMC, the US oil and gas services company, reported increased profit and revenues as well as a rising backlog of contracts covering areas such as South America, the Gulf of Mexico and Europe.

EQT Corp., the leading US natural gas producer in the Appalachian shale basins and an emerging LNG player, has made a “strategic decision” to curtail approximately 1 billion cubic feet per day of gross production beginning immediately.

Mexico-Pacific LNG has signed a third long-term Sales and Purchase Agreement with ExxonMobil’s Asian trading unit for an additional 1.2 million tonnes per annum of LNG from a liquefaction and export venture under development in the Northwest Mexican state of Sonora.

Targa Resources Corp., one of the largest US independent midstream infrastructure companies, has agreed to acquire Lucid Energy, a natural gas gathering and processing services company in the Delaware Basin from US asset managers for $3.55 billion in cash and the transaction will be completed in the third quarter.