Liquefaction

Santos has announced that it has signed binding agreement extensions with both Beach Energy and Senex for gas processing and related gas liquids purchases at the Moomba gas facilities.

The Governor of Alaska, Michael J. Dunleavy, has announced several changes and appointments to the seven-member board of directors governing Alaska Gasline Development Corp.

Ophir has been informed by the Equatorial Guinea Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons that the Block R licence, which contains the Fortuna gas discovery, will not be extended following expiry of the licence on 31 December 2018.

Williams has announced that its Gulf Connector project has been put into full service, further connecting its Transco pipeline with global LNG markets.

Wood Mackenzie is forecasting that 2019 will see a record-breaking 60 million tpy of LNG production capacity be approved.

The US FERC has issued a letter order authorising Corpus Christi Liquefaction to introduce gas and commission the Train 2 fuel gas system at its Corpus Christi LNG export terminal.

According to Reuters, RDIF – a Russian sovereign wealth fund – is looking into the possibility of investing in the Arctic LNG 2 project alongside Saudi Aramco.

EXMAR has announced that its floating LNG unit, which will be renamed Tango FLNG, has successfully left China to Bahia Blanca, Argentina, where its liquefaction operations will begin.

Woodside has announced that it has awarded a contract to Bechtel (Western Australia) Pty Ltd to carry out the front-end engineering design work for the Pluto Train 2 project.

ExxonMobil has announced that the Area 4 co-venture participants have secured LNG offtake commitments from affiliated buyer entities of the partners.

Commonwealth LNG has released a statement claiming that it has submitted a draft Resource Report 13 to FERC for its proposed liquefaction facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, US.

Kosmos Energy has released a statement claiming that a final investment decision has been agreed for Phase 1 of the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project.

Black & Veatch has announced that it has received a limited notice to proceed on work to jointly outfit a Golar LNG owned LNG carrier, Gimi, with its patented PRICO® liquefaction technology.

Cheniere Energy Partners LP has announced that its subsidiary Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC has entered into an LNG sale and purchase agreement with Petronas LNG Ltd.

Wood Mackenzie has released its latest quarterly North America LNG projects update.