LNG

Freeport LNG has announced that it has received approval from the US Department of Energy (DOE) for the export of Train 4 volumes to non-free trade agreement countries.

NextDecade Corp. has announced that it has signed two contracts with Bechtel for the EPC of NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG project.

The US and India are expected to lead capacity growth in the global LNG liquefaction and regasification industries from planned and announced (newbuild) projects, respectively during the outlook period 2019 – 2023, according to GlobalData.

Venture Global LNG, Inc. and Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners have executed definitive agreements under which Stonepeak will exclusively provide a US$1.3 billion equity investment in Venture Global’s 10 million tpy Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility.

Keppel Shipyard has awarded PG Flow Solutions a contract to supply high flow seawater pumps to Golar’s ‘Gimi FLNG’ project.

The 28th World Gas Conference (WGC 2021) will take place in Daegu, South Korea, in June 2021.

First Gen Corp. has held a ground-breaking ceremony and finished the pre-development work for its new LNG terminal.

Wood has announced a new funding partnership arrangement with NERA, in collaboration with the University of Western Australia, to support the development of an online hydrate blockage prediction model for operating gas condensate systems.

ConocoPhillips is confident that the recently weak global LNG prices are only a short-term issue.

Damen Shipyards has announced that the keel-laying ceremony for a new LNG bunker vessel has taken place at Damen Yichang Shipyard.

OLT Offshore LNG Toscana has announced that its Board of Directors has formalised the transfer of shares held by Uniper, to First State Investments.

Sembcorp Marine has announced that it has completed the world’s largest and strongest semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) for Heerema.

AB Klaipedos nafta has released a statement claiming that its board has reapproved the transfer of the regulated activities of the Klaipeda LNG terminal to the subsidiary UAB SGD terminalas.

Samik Mukherjee and Don Hill, McDermott International, Inc., USA, review modularisation options and applications in the context of new liquefaction projects.

Myles Mantle, Andreas Silcher and Chrysa Kitsou, Haynes and Boone CDG, LLP, UK, provide a regional report on the LNG industry in Latin America and the Caribbean.