LNG

Woodside Petroleum, the Australian LNG plant operator, is considering whether to block Russian company Lukoil from becoming a partner in the $4.2 billion Sangomar project offshore Senegal after the Russians agreed to buy Cairn Energy’s Senegal assets.

Royal Dutch Shell has joined Western Australian LNG operator Woodside Petroleum and Petronas of Malaysia in making a minority investment in the online liquefied natural gas trading platform GLX.

Australian liquefied natural gas export plants in Western Australia and Queensland exported a total of 93 cargoes in May, with six of them spot cargoes, down from 101 shipments the previous month, while deliveries to China kept their momentum as Japan and South Korea imports were lower or flat.

Woodside, the Australian LNG export plant operator, has received a regulatory permit for the Scarborough gas field development offshore Western Australia, even as the final investment decision has been deferred until 2021.

Woodside Petroleum, the liquefied natural gas plant operator in Western Australia, said it had decided to advance with the pipeline project, the Pluto-North West Shelf Interconnector, to connect the Pluto LNG and the North West Shelf Karratha Gas Plant and had entered into contractual arrangements for the construction.

Australian LNG operator Woodside Petroleum said the resource estimates of the Scarborough gas field offshore Western Australia, set to underpin its Pluto LNG plant expansion and the Burrup Peninsula Hub, have been increased by more than 50 percent.