June 2023

LEAD STORY

Thursday, 01 June 2023 06:35

Signs of a Mozambican LNG Spring

Written by AJ Kotze

Different plans of reviving Mozambican LNG developments after two years of force majeure leave the situation in flux whilst Coral Sul FLNG’s success in supplying gas-starved Europe put Mozambique on the LNG map, our Markets Editor Alexander Wilk reports. 

Final countdown is underway for the launch of Hong Kong’s first LNG import terminal – planned for June – as a commissioning cargo has just been discharged at the world’s largest floating storage and regas unit, the FSRU Bauhinia Spirit. Our AIS ship-tracking data shows the ‘Maran Gas Coronis’ tanker supplied the initial cargo on May 15, having been loaded at Qatar’s giant Ras Laffan terminal, our Markets Editor Anja Karl reports. 

Also in this issue

Our data on 23 May showed weaker LNG output globally although exports were broadly flat year-on-year. Meanwhile, demand dipped as even robust growth in China and South America could not compensate for reductions elsewhere, our Market Editor Alexander Wilk reports. 

Cheniere’s Sabine Pass expansion project will include ConocoPhillips proprietary Optimized Cascade technology.  Technical Editor Ian Cochran reports. 

Thursday, 01 June 2023 05:35

Methane slip trials held on ropax engines

Written by AJ Kotze

Continuing LNG Journal’s coverage of efforts to contain methane slip, in May, 2023, the Green Ray project published an article ‘Methane emissions from a state-of-the-art LNG powered vessel’ in Atmosphere journal.

Thursday, 01 June 2023 05:31

Nano-scale mobile LNG refuelling opens new markets

Written by AJ Kotze

The launch of the world's first nano-scale mobile LNG refuelling station earlier this year, offers the potential for refuelling at a new scale, according to developers behind the collaborative project Liquid Energy.  Fuelling Editor Malcolm Ramsay has more. 

AIR PRODUCTS, the leading liquefied natural equipment-maker and industrial gases company, said it was chosen to supply process technology and equipment to an electric-driven LNG liquefaction plant in China, its second infrastructure order in a week after the Port Arthur project award in Texas.