LNG news updates

The AES Corporation has agreed to minority sell-downs of its businesses in the Dominican Republic and Panama, as an expansion of its existing strategic partnership with Grupo Linda and AFI Popular.

QatarEnergy has signed an agreement with HD Hyundai Heavy Industries for the construction of 17 ultra-modern LNG carriers.

Sempra Infrastructure has announced that Tania Ortiz Mena had been appointed president of Sempra Infrastructure.

Enagás has finalised the acquisition of 10% of the shares of Hanseatic Energy Hub GmbH.

Seaside LNG has announced its industry support of SEA-LNG, the multi-sector industry coalition established to demonstrate the benefits of the LNG pathway for shipping’s decarbonisation.

Rohe Solutions Oy has started liquefying biogas from the grid at the Hamina LNG terminal. Liquefaction at Hamina LNG Oy’s terminal and the first pilot deliveries are planned to start in early 2024.

This spotlight session reviews and explores Dover Fueling Solutions’ recent article for LNG Industry, entitled ‘A clean fuel to rule the truckstop forecourt’.

Corinth Pipeworks has been awarded a contract by Snam to manufacture and supply approximately 13 km of longitudinally submerged arc-welded steel pipes for the development of a natural gas pipeline for the FSRU.

KBR has been awarded an EPC management contract by Woodside Energy, as operator for and on behalf of the Pluto joint venture.

Worley will develop the FEED and EPC scope of work for QatarEnergy LNG’s carbon sequestration facility, capable of capturing 4.3 million metric tpy of carbon dioxide.

NextDecade Corporation’s subsidiary, Rio Grande LNG, LLC, has entered into a credit agreement for US$356 million of senior loans to finance a portion of the first three LNG trains at NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG export facility in Texas.

ORLEN has finalised an agreement with GAZ-SYSTEM to reserve a regasification capacity of 6.1 billion m3/y at the Gdansk terminal.

Sempra Infrastructure has announced that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved the permit authorising the Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 expansion project under development at Port Arthur LNG in Jefferson County, Texas.

GTT has received an order from Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co. Ltd for the tank design of three new LNG carriers, on behalf of China Energy.

Gate terminal B.V has selected VINCI Construction Grands Projets – Entrepose Contracting, Sener, and Sacyr Proyecta to execute the expansion of the terminal with a fourth LNG storage tank.

Antonis I. Angelicoussis has become the first LNG dual fuel-power very large crude carrier to be certified by the Green Award Foundation.

MISC Berhad has entered into a new partnership agreement with Nissen Kaiun Co., Ltd for the sale and charter of two of its existing LNG carriers.

NYK has participated as a key partner in the Methane Abatement in Maritime Innovation Initiative with the aim to reduce the environmental impact of LNG-fuelled vessels further.

Commonwealth LNG has entered into a heads of agreement with EQT for 1 million tpy of LNG under a 15-year tolling agreement, and associated gas supply to Commonwealth LNG’s facility in Cameron, Louisiana.

Samsung Heavy Industries has plans to integrate a digital twin-based ship management platform on PAN OCEAN’s LNG carrier for demonstration.

Bureau Veritas and Hanwha Ocean have announced a joint development project on the structural assessment of independent LNG fuel tanks for ultra large ships.

ConocoPhillips has announced the signing of a commercial agreement to secure additional regasification capacity in Europe at the Gate LNG terminal in the Netherlands.

Grain LNG has launched an auction for 375 GWh/d (approximately 9 million tpy) of existing capacity.

QatarEnergy has announced that Qatargas has changed its name to QatarEnergy LNG.