Liquefaction

Spot prices LNG-AS for January delivery were steady at US$9.85 per mmBtu.

Royal Dutch Shell’s Queensland Curtis LNG production plant will undergo a partial maintenance outage on 7 – 27 May 2018.

A surge in speculative interest in the US LNG export boom has pushed open interest in natural gas futures to an all-time high.

Japan’s Inpex Corp halted construction work on 30 November.

By Yasmine Zhu, a Senior Analyst with McKinsey Energy Insights, where she conducts market analysis for its North American upstream and midstream sectors.

By Yasmine Zhu, Senior Analyst with McKinsey Energy Insights, where she conducts market analysis for its North American upstream and midstream sectors.

NERA has approved funding for eight new projects totalling AUS$4.8 million.

Hamburg in northwest Germany will soon become the centre for a drive in Europe’s biggest economy to diversify natural gas imports.

Setback in bid to renegotiate Gazprom LNG deal.

DOF Subsea announced the award of a five-year IMR contract with Shell Australia to provide IMR services in July 2016.

China’s domestic prices for LNG on 27 November topped US$1061 a tonne.

Ophir Energy has postponed its final investment decision on a proposed US$2 billion LNG project in Equatorial Guinea until early 2018.

ExxonMobil has evacuated non-essential staff working in the highlands of Papua New Guinea due to unrest in the area.

The primary source of LNG will be the North American natural gas liquefaction terminal located at Sabine Pass, Louisiana.

Wen Wang, Wood Mackenzie, has offered an analysis of LNG’s potential capacity to save China from a winter gas shortage.