Gassco, the Norwegian pipeline operator and a main competitor to LNG, transported a record 108 billion standard cubic metres of natural gas in 2015 from the Norwegian continental shelf to terminals in Germany, Belgium, France and the UK.

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Sevan Marine of Norway, the designer and developer of offshore installations for the oil and gas industry, said it entered into a project and technology agreement with Vires Energy Corp. of the Philippines for a small-scale liquefied natural gas import terminal in the South-East Asian country.

Dutch utility Gasunie, the owner with Vopak of Rotterdam's Gate LNG import terminal, said that from mid-2016 small-scale LNG carriers would be able to load cargoes from the new break-bulk jetty currently under construction for distribution to other Northwest European ports.

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The Japanese government said the average price of spot liquefied natural gas cargoes imported into Japan last month was $7.50 per million British thermal units compared with $15.10 per MMBtu in the year-ago period, a fall of $7.60 per MMBtu or 49.6 percent.

Liquefied natural gas import prices for Japan can be expected to remain low until the middle of 2016, according to the latest Japanese perspective on the international energy landscape and the oil price plunge.

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Bechtel Inc., the San Francisco-based liquefied natural gas plant builder, said it was still working on two of the six liquefaction Trains it was contracted to construct on Curtis Island in Queensland for three separate groups of companies.

The three-month countdown has begun for the most important liquefied natural gas conference to take place in recent years, the LNG 18 event scheduled for April 11-15 at the Perth Convention Centre in Western Australia.

Danish shipping company orders two more support vessels for Australian LNG plant

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Canada's National Energy Board has awarded its first 40-year liquefied natural gas export licence to the Royal Dutch Shell-led joint venture with three Asian companies, including PetroChina.

A former Canadian gold and silver mining town on the northern Pacific Coast of British Columbia may become the location of a liquefied natural gas project after regulators awarded an export licence to a company with Chinese investors.