Nuclear restart in Japan displaces LNG-fuelled generation
TEPCO is rushing to restart of Unit 6 Japan’s largest nuclear power station to displace LNG-fuelled power at a time of escalating gas prices. With 1,356 MW installed capacity, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 6, is could help avoid combustion of 1.3 million tons of imported LNG, based on Japanese government estimates of fuel substitution.
First gas at BW Opal FPSO puts Santos on track with Darwin LNG
First gas received at Santos’ BW Opal floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel puts the Australian major on track with the Darwin LNG project, CEO Kevin Gallagher said. Situated off Darwin, Northern Territories, the FSPO receives gas from the Barossa gas wells.
JERA Global Markets of Japan signs multi-year LNG supply deal with ADNOC Gas of United Arab Emirates
JERA Global Markets, the trading arm of Japan’s largest LNG and energy buyer and utility JERA Co. Inc., and ADNOC Gas, the recently spun-off unit of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) in the United Arab Emirates, have signed a multi-year LNG supply agreement.
JERA and small city-gas companies open pipeline from Futtsu LNG import terminal to Anegasaki power plant
Japanese LNG importer JERA Co. Inc has opened a new pipeline linking its Futtsu LNG import terminal to the Anegasaki Thermal Power Station to help ensure stable long-term energy supplies for Chiba Prefecture.
Largest Japanese LNG buyer JERA secures stake in Barossa natural gas field to supply Darwin LNG plant
JERA Co. Inc., the largest Japanese LNG buyer and power asset holder, said it would invest in the Barossa natural gas field offshore northwest Australia to underpin production at the Darwin LNG export plant.
Largest Japanese LNG buyer JERA Co. sells stakes in gas-fired plants in industrial estates in Thailand
JERA Co. Inc. , the Japanese power giant and largest importer of LNG, has sold up its stakes in two companies that operate cogeneration and gas-fired power plants at two industrial estates in the suburbs of the Thai capital Bangkok as it reorganizes its portfolio.
Australian billionaire Forrest to develop LNG import terminal near Sydney without Japanese partners
Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest's Squadron Energy has bought Japanese investors out of the Australian Industrial Energy joint venture formed to develop an LNG import project in New South Wales at Port Kembla, south of Sydney, and will speed ahead on its own.
French LNG player EDF Trading enters the Japanese power market with first transactions completed
French firm EDF Trading, a leader in the international wholesale energy markets and a partner of Japanese LNG trader JERA Global Markets, has entered the Japanese power market.
Japanese report says nation has only two weeks of LNG in stock as more nuclear power offline
Japan has only two weeks of LNG reserves in storage as the nation entered a state of emergency a week ago because of the coronavirus and this has coincided with cutbacks in its current limited nuclear power generation capacity.
US Freeport LNG export plant brings second jetty into service as cargo number grow
The Freeport LNG export plant on Quintana Island in Texas was given permission by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to brings a second loading jetty into service to meet increasing cargo numbers.
