In this issue

 

Free ReadLNG News Editor:  US major ConocoPhillips and QatarEnergy will combine to provide 2 million tonnes per annum of LNG to Germany’s new onshore import terminal under development at Brunsbüttel on…
Shenzhen Energy, the Chinese natural gas and power company, said it signed a long-term LNG supply agreement with UK major BP for volumes to fuel gas-fired power plants in what…
LNG News Editor:  Woodside Energy, the operator of the North West Shelf and Pluto LNG plants in Western Australia, has issued its 2023 guidance including a maintenance shutdown at the…
Free ReadWoodside Energy and the Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation (NAC) have entered into a bilateral Indigenous Land Use Agreement and a modern benefits-sharing and relationship agreement relating to lands being investigated for…
Woodside Energy, the operator of two LNG export plants in Western Australia, has shipped an LNG cargo to the Dutch Gate import terminal in Rotterdam on behalf of Germany’s Uniper Global Commodities. 
LNG News Editor:  TC Energy Corp., the North American pipeline and resources company with large-scale natural gas connections for the LNG sector in the US and Canada, has held its…
LNG News Editor:  UK major BP said the Cassia C natural gas development in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad & Tobago had safely delivered first gas and given a boost…
Free ReadLNG News Editor:  Egypt’s Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Tareq El-Molla has said that Egypt was ready to meet more of the increased demand for natural gas in Europe as…
The European energy crisis is expected to last for several years and in addition to limits on global liquefied natural gas supplies there has also been less than adequate investment…
Italian energy company Eni said Italy needed to significantly increase its LNG import capacity as in 2023 Russian natural gas imports will be in single digits compared with a year-ago…
LNG News Editor:  Argentina said it was prepared to follow through with a pledge to remove investment uncertainties for foreign energy companies, especially in the construction of liquefaction natural gas…
Free ReadSouth Korean LNG shipbuilder, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME), said it cancelled the last of three LNG carrier orders from 2020 to serve the Yamal LNG export facility in…
NFE CEO Edens outlines more plans contained in deals signed with Pemex 
LNG News Editor:  Mozambique President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi has visited and inaugurated the “Coral-Sul FLNG” installation located in the ultra-deep waters of the Rovuma Basin that has turned his southeast…

News Nudges

Granholm speech

A highlights on day three was a speech from US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm when she rowed back on previous anti-hydrocarbon industry statements. “We know that oil and gas is going to remain a part of our energy mix for years to come,” said Granholm. “Even the boldest projections for clean energy deployment suggest that in the middle of the century we are going to be using abated fossil fuels,” she declared. Analysts said that the speech was a sign from the Biden Administration that its understanding of energy reality is evolving and policy is not being totally overshadowed by a green-and-extreme wish list.


Bahrain FLNG move

The Arabian Gulf state of Bahrain announced that it was considering the production of LNG using a floating liquefaction facility. The plan was revealed by Nasser bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Chairman of Bahrain’s National Oil and Gas Holding Company. “We are studying the possibility of constructing a floating liquefied natural gas facility to export gas to capture some of the strong international demand,” Al-Khalifa said.


YPF-Petronas LNG plan

Argentina's state-controlled energy company YPF and Malaysia's Petronas said in a presentation that they expected to make a final decision in 2024 on the first phase of a huge natural gas project in Argentina backed by Malaysian-led finance. The YPF-Petronas venture has five phases comprising natural gas production, gas storage, pipeline transportation, liquefaction into LNG and then LNG exports. “Drilling rigs are expected to be imported for the upstream portion of the gas project,” said YPF Chief Executive Pablo Iuliano.