Liquefaction

Reuters reports that scheduled maintenance work is being carried out on one of NLNG’s trains, and will continue until the first week of April 2016.

A Gazprom delegation lead by Alexey Miller has visited Bolivia, leading to an MOU promoting the use of LNG.

McDermott has secured the first subsea installation scope for its DLV 2000 at the Ichthys LNG project.

Cape has signed a contract with Samsung Heavy Industries for the installation of insulation to the cryogenic pipework on the process topside on the Prelude FLNG facility.

Dominion Cove Point LNG has announced that construction at its liquefaction project is now 24% complete.

CIMIC has confirmed that a Notice of Dispute has been issued to Chevron regarding the Gorgon LNG jetty contract.

Rosneft has signed Heads of Agreement with PDVSA to establish a joint venture to implement a large scale project for the production, treatment and sale of natural gas extracted from fields off of the coast of Venezuela.

Reuters reports that a tanker has docked at Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass LNG terminal to ship the facility’s first LNG export cargo.

Inpex has announced that construction of the reinforced concrete roof of its second LNG tank at Bladin Point has been completed.

Santos has reported a net loss of AUS$2.7 billion in 2015, as a result of after tax impairments and the lower oil price.

Corpus Christi Liquefaction and Cheniere Energy will apply for approval from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to commence construction on the Stage 3 expansion project.

The ACCC has proposed to conditionally authorise Queensland LNG producers to coordinate their maintenance schedules.

ConocoPhillips has announced a number of executive leadership changes, as Jeff Sheets prepares to step down as Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer.

Origin Energy has reported a 1H16 loss of $254 million compared to $25 million in 1H15.

Bill Walker – the Governor of Alaska – and partners of the Alaska LNG project – BP, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips – have announced that they will explore ways to advance the project amidst the current fiscal environment.