LNG

Pipeline company TGS and Houston-based firm test viability of shale-gas shipments in summer

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Argentina is set to change from being an importer to an exporter of liquefied natural gas and has initiated a study on the first liquefaction and export venture with US floating project specialist Excelerate Energy. 

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Kinder Morgan, one of the main US pipeline operators and owner of two LNG facilities, said it was moving forward with modifying its Gulf LNG import facility in Mississippi to handle exports as it is already doing with its Elba Island plant near Savannah, Georgia. 

Spanish energy company Repsol has agreed to buy 1 million tonnes per annum of LNG under a 20-year agreement signed with the Calcasieu Pass export project in Louisiana being built by Venture Global, becoming the Washington DC-based developer’s fifth European customer. 

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Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean nation that once sent most of the LNG cargoes imported into the US before the shale gas boom and still supplies one terminal, is widening its customer base while increasing sources of feed-gas for the Atlantic LNG liquefaction and export plant at Point Fortin on Trinidad. 

Gasum, the natural gas network operator in Finland and owner of the Skangas LNG distribution business, plans to invest in the construction of around 50 more natural gas filling stations for heavy-duty vehicles in Finland, Sweden and Norway by the beginning of the 2020s. 

Ophir Energy, the UK company based in London that was forced to suspend plans for LNG export projects in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania, plans to move its head office to Asia and cut costs while awaiting the appointment of a new Chief Executive. 

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ExxonMobil has signed a preliminary accord for the sale of its 13.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas resources in the Prudhoe Bay and Point Thomson fields of Alaska's North Slope to Alaska Gasline Development Corp., the state-owned body leading the development of Alaska LNG. 

Gazprom, the Russian pipeline natural gas supplier to Europe and owner of the Sakhalin Island LNG export plant, has proved itself to be slow moving in expanding Sakhalin with an additional liquefaction Train to take nameplate capacity to around 14.4 million tonnes per annum amid Asian demand. 

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RWE, one of Europe’s leading energy companies and utilities based in the German city of Essen, said it had secured “a considerable part” of the capacity from Germany’s first LNG terminal planned for Brunsbuettel on the Elbe River near the port of Hamburg. 

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Mitsui OSK Lines, the Japanese shipping company and LNG fleet owner, has held a naming ceremony in South Korea for an ice-breaking LNG carrier to deliver shipments to Asia from the Russian Yamal LNG export plant in Siberia.