Liquefaction

The Lax Kw’alaams Band has voted in favour of continuing to pursue LNG developments in their traditional territory.

The US DOE Office of Fossil Energy has granted American LNG Marketing blanket authorisation to export LNG to countries with and without a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US.

The API has emphasised that increased US LNG exports are critical to Europe’s energy security.

BP has awarded the onshore LNG EPC and offshore GPF EPCI contracts for the Tangguh Expansion Project Train 3.

According to Reuters, the President of Tanzania, John Magufuli, has ordered officials to speed up work on the country’s long-delayed US$30 billion onshore LNG export terminal.

Magnolia LNG has awarded EthosEnergy a US$176.8 million contract for the first third party operations and maintenance services partnership at the Lake Charles production facility in Louisiana, US.

Sabine Pass LNG has filed its monthly construction progress report for July 2016 to FERC.

Oil Search has reportedly said that the Papua New Guinea LNG project is considering multi-year contracts for sales of spot cargoes into order to handle excess LNG.

Corpus Christi Liquefaction has filed its monthly construction progress report to FERC.

Marathon Oil Corp. has announced a number of leadership changes, including the promotion of T. Mitch Little to Executive Vice President, Operations.

Venture Global has raised an additional US$15 million in capital to fund its proposed LNG projects in Louisiana, US.

Santos has announced a 1H16 net loss of US$1.1 billion.

CIMIC Group has commenced proceedings in the US against Chevron Corp. and KBR Inc., seeking up to AUS$1.86 billion regarding a dispute over the Gorgon LNG project jetty.

Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Co. has announced a major investment in GAS Entec – an engineering and design firm based in Korea, dedicated to both small and mid scale LNG applications.

InterOil Corp. has released a statement encouraging shareholders to vote for the recently-announced ExxonMobil transaction.