Liquefaction

Toyota Tsusho Corporation (TTC) has signed a CBM Sales Agreement with Walloons Coal Seam Gas Company Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of BG Group plc., the owner of the Curtis LNG Project.

According to a new IHS Global Insight study, the shale gas revolution, which has swept across America and transformed the energy landscape, will also have a huge economic impact supporting more jobs, stimulating growth and providing huge amounts of revenue.

GE Oil & Gas is to supply Qatargas with advanced combustion technology that will reduce gas turbine emissions at the Qatargas 1 Utility complex to meet new regulations from the Qatari Ministry of Environment.

Terry Willis, The EIC, Dubai, examines the increasing pace of new LNG liquefaction capacity and exports from the Middle East.

Qatar’s RasGas has signed a deal to supply CPC with at least 1.5 million tpa of LNG.

Inpex Corp. and Total have signed a sales and purchase agreement with a consortium of five Japanese utility companies to supply them with 4 million tpa of LNG from the Ichthys LNG project.

InterOil Corporation and Pacific LNG Operations Ltd. announced the signing of a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with ENN Energy Trading Company Ltd., for the supply of 1 -1.5 million tpa of LNG from the Gulf LNG project in Papua New Guinea.

FMC Technologies, Inc is to manufacture and supply the subsea production systems to support the Wheatstone LNG Project. The contract has an approximate value of US$ 325 million.

Inpex Gas British Columbia Ltd. has agreed in principle to acquire a 40% participating interest in the shale gas projects in the Horn River, Cordova and Liard basins from Nexen Inc. This will be the first time that Inpex have invested in a shale gas development.

Anadarko has made another significant gas discovery at its Barquentine-3 appraisal well, with this find the company should have enough gas reserve sin place to push on with its liquefaction plant development.

Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. has entered into a LNG sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Gas Natural Aprovisionamientos, a subsidiary of Gas Natural Fenosa, under which Gas Natural Fenosa has agreed to purchase 3.5 million tpa of LNG over a 20 year period.

Australia Pacific LNG Pty Limited and The Kansai Electric Power Company today signed a binding Heads of Agreement for the sale and purchase of approximately 1 million tonnes of LNG per year for 20 years.

GDF SUEZ and Petronet LNG Limited have just signed an agreement extending along 2012 under which GDF SUEZ will sell Petronet approximately 0.6 million tons (nine cargoes) of LNG.

Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. and Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals, Inc. have entered into a lump sum turnkey contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of the first two liquefaction trains at the Sabine Pass LNG terminal.

Foster Wheeler AG announced today that it has signed an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) framework agreement with Qatargas.