Liquefaction

Mitsubishi has reached a final investment decision and will now build the Donggi-Senoro LNG project in Indonesia.

The BP Energy Outlook 2030 is the first of BP’s forward looking analyses to be published after 60 years of producing definitive historical data in the BP Statistical Review of World Energy.

Total and partners have sanctioned the development of the Gladstone LNG project at a cost of US$ 16 billion.

Saponis Investments Sp. Z o.o., a 20% owned subsidiary of LNG Energy Ltd has spudded its first exploratory shale gas well in Poland.

Seneca Resources has acquired additional acreage in the Marcellus Shale from EOG Resources at a cost of US$ 23 million.

Gazprom Marketing & Trading and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation have signed an LNG agreement.

Granherne, a subsidiary of KBR, has been selected by GDF SUEZ Bonaparte Pty Ltd to execute the pre-FEED study for the Bonaparte LNG Project.

Wood Mackenzie study shows path to job growth and more government revenue is through increased access to oil and gas reserves.

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.