LNG

Tlou Energy, the company developing projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, said the Lesedi gas-to-power project remained on track to get natural gas-fired power into the grid in Botswana from the southern African nation’s own coal-seam gas (CSG), a resource that is used by companies in Australia to produce and export LNG.

Sembcorp Marine of Singapore said it signed a contract with US engineering company Bechtel for module assembly of the second liquefaction Train proposed for Woodside’s Pluto LNG export project in Western Australia.

Elixir Energy, a small Australian exploration and production company, has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to help develop a small-scale LNG plant in land-locked Mongolia, the East Asian nation bordered by Russia and China.

Australian oil and gas company Senex Energy said it was supplying more domestic natural gas to the East Coast market in Australia at least for the next two or three months as the Gladstone LNG export plant has reduced its coal-seam-gas needs from the onshore Surat Basin for LNG production.

Australia Pacific LNG’s acquisition of the Ironbark coal-seam gas project in Queensland from Origin Energy has been approved by the country’s regulators who do not see the deal affecting East Coast domestic natural gas supply.

Two of the three Australian coal-seam-gas-to-LNG export plants on Curtis Island near the port of Gladstone in Queensland have successfully tendered for an exploration and production licence for a key block in the Bowen Basin to boost natural gas supplies.

Green Dragon Gas Ltd., one of the largest independent companies involved in Chinese production and sale of coal-seam gas, which is used to make LNG in Australia, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is now considering listing its shares in China itself.