Liquefaction

Excelerate has received approval from the US DOE to export LNG for 20 years from its Lavaca Bay FLSO terminal.

Honeywell has received an order to supply a data consolidation and reporting solution to support operations at Australia Pacific LNG’s coal seam gas to LNG project.

Oil and Gas engineering Solutions is to perform FEED studies for Excelerate Energy’s Lavaca Bay LNG Floating Liquefaction Storage and Offloading Project.

Osaka Gas and Chubu Electric have acquired liquefaction rights to Train 1 of the Freeport LNG facility, the agreement clears the way for them to export LNG from the US mainland.

Air Products has announced plans to expand its LNG heat exchanger manufacturing capacity at a new facility in Florida.

North America is witnessing a fresh surge of natural gas production, which is encouraging investors to pump money into the industry, says a new report by natural resources expert GlobalData.

GE has signed a 22 year maintenance contract to maintain Gorgon LNG’s compressor trains and power generation units.

Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract by Technip to supply a Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG) reclamation plant for the Ichthys LNG Project in Australia. The contract value is approximately NOK 485 million.

Black & Veatch provide liquefaction technology to EXMAR FSRU.

Aker Solutions has signed a contract with McDermott, the main EPCI contractor for the Ichthys gas-condensate field development subsea umbilical, riser, flowline (SURF) project, for INPEX in Australia. The contract value is approximately NOK 440 million.

Browse LNG receives conditional environmental approval to proceed, Woodside Petroleum are on course to make a final investment decision in 2013.

Total has increased its stake in the Ichthys LNG project to 30%.

Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. has received executed firm financial commitments in aggregate of approximately US$ 3.4 billion to fund the costs of developing, constructing and placing into service the first two liquefaction trains of the Sabine Pass LNG liquefaction project.

Sinopec has increased its stake in APLNG from 15 – 25% in line with its Subscription Agreement with Origin Energy.

Shell is to purchase Gasnor, the small scale LNG producer, for US$ 74 million. In order to make inroads on expanding LNG shipping fuel market.