LNG

Feb 15 (LNGJ) - Renergen, South Africa’s small-scale liquefied natural gas and liquefied helium production company, has re-started LNG deliveries after a maintenance outage. The LNG plant is part of the Virginia Gas project located about 250 kilometres southwest of Johannesburg. “The delays suffered during the planned maintenance outage were primarily as a result of the scheduled maintenance period being brought forward to coincide with a helium coldbox repair,” said Renergen.

   “The shut-down ran longer than expected owing to unexpected challenges experienced with the primary mixed-refrigerant compressor,” the company added in a statement to reassure investors. “The company will seek to obtain relief from insurance cover and or a contractual claim against its suppliers,” added Renergen.

July 26 (LNGJ) - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said the Government and the Sakhalin Region of the Russian Far East were examining plans to supply liquified natural gas to the Kuril Islands. There is still a dispute between Russia and Japan over the status of the Kuril Islands, located between the Japanese island of Hokkaido at the southern end and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula in the north. The volcanic archipelago comprises 56 islands taken over by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II and have since been considered as part of Russia.

   Mishustin said that Russia was considering supplying regasification and some power infrastructure to the Kurils to run on small-scale LNG shipments from Gazprom’s Sakhalin Energy LNG plant, which also supplies Japanese utilities. “LNG is probably the best option given the current global green energy requirements. This would be an excellent solution,” said the Russian PM in a statement.

Russian natural gas company Novatek, the nation’s largest liquefied natural gas developer in the Arctic region, has also been building up the customer base of its small-scale Cryogas-Vysotsk plant on the Baltic Coast while making progress on assembling a shipping fleet for the Arctic LNG II project under construction on the Gydan Peninsula of northern Siberia.

Edge LNG, a company using proven mobile liquefaction units delivered by trailer, said it was selected to capture and liquefy shale gas from stranded wells in the Marcellus Basin.