LNG

Chinese LNG imports surged by 33 percent last month with cargoes from nations such as Australia, Angola, Cuba, Russia and Qatar and were also up in the January-July period by 47 percent as the Asian nation maintained its growing levels of natural gas demand amid the commercial start-ups of more import infrastructure.

China took its liquefied natural gas terminal network to 19 as two more facilities were formally brought into service in August at Zhoushan in the eastern Zhejiang province and at Dapeng New District in the southern province of Guangdong.