Liquefaction

Statoil will have the Snøhvit LNG plant back up to full capacity by the end of January after it was forced to shut down on 20 December due to a technical fault.

Santos LNG has sold stakes in its Gladstone LNG project to KOGAS and Total and signed a 20 year supply agreement with KOGAS.

ExxonMobil is celebrating success on opposite sides of the world, with an increased LNG capacity in Qatar and the completion of a carbon capture facility in the USA.

Iran LNG and Venezuela have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI), which will see Iran export LNG to Venezuela, which may then be exported onto Argentina and Cuba.

Icthys LNG project, which is owned by INPEX Browse and Total, has released the invitations to tender for the project's gas processing facility on Blaydin Point, Darwin, Australia.

Train 6 started this month and will produce 7.8 million tpy, helping Qatar reach its target of 77 million tpy of LNG liquefaction capacity by the end of 2010.

Nancy D. Yamaguchi, Hydrocarbon Engineering Contributing Editor, looks at the Southeast Asian energy sector.

Santos has agreed a deal to supply 750 PJ of natural gas from its Cooper Basin gas assets to the Gladstone LNG project.

Curtis LNG and Gladstone LNG have received conditional environmental approval by the Australian government.

According to Russian government documents, Novatek will begin construction of an LNG liquefaction plant on the Yamal peninsula in 2012.

GDF SUEZ is to supply China’s CNOOC with 2.6 million t of LNG over four years, starting in 2013.

Repsol and Qatargas have signed a multi year supply agreement for Qatar to supply LNG to Repsol’s Canaport LNG terminal.

Leighton Contractors has been awarded a contract by Chevron Australia to deliver the civil and underground works package for the Gorgon Project valued at more than $800 million.

Singapore is building up the infrastructure to become a major LNG hub for the Asia-Pacific region, as well as being a prolific consumer of LNG in its own right.

After the two nations’ premiers met in New York this week, they have agreed to go ahead with a Qatar-led LNG project in Sri Lanka.