LNG news updates

Elengy and Fosmax LNG are adapting the Fos Cavaou terminal to offer a new LNG bunker-vessel loading service.

China’s interest in reducing its trade surplus with the US through increased energy imports could advance plans for US LNG plants.

Petronet LNG Limited has announced its Q4 and FY 2017-18 results.

EXERGY and Baker Hughes will be the suppliers of Samsung Engineering Company, the EPC contractor for the development of the power station of PTT LNG terminal in Rayong, Thailand.

Venture Global Calcasieu Pass and BP have entered into a 20-year sales and purchase agreement for the supply of 2 million tpy from the Venture Global Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility.

The technology group Wärtsilä’s Fuel Gas Supply Systems have passed a significant milestone with the 100th order being booked.

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation has announced that Mitch Ingram has been named EVP, International, Deepwater & Exploration.

Alpha Process Controls has reaffirmed its commitment to quality after achieving a respected management standard with distinction.

Thigpen Solutions has acquired the assets of Thigpen Energy (a specialist in LNG, CNG, and field gas delivery).

Harbour says latest offer for Santos is ‘best and final’.

Harbour Energy has submitted a new takeover bid for Santos Ltd.

Commodities were a big casualty of the escalating trade war between the US and China, but are now set to be a major beneficiary of Beijing’s pledge to import more American goods.

Japan received its first shipment of LNG on 21 May from Dominion Energy Inc’s newly completed Cove Point export plant.

Mobile Energy Solutions’ combined LNG and CNG solution sustains three towns during a planned transmission outage.

Britain’s busiest LNG import terminal is seeking to diversify its supply sources as Qatari cargoes head east to meet Asian demand.

A pipeline across Australia and gas imports from the US are on the drawing board.

Golar LNG’s groundbreaking Cameroon LNG project has shipped its first cargo.

LNG is playing a decisive role in helping HDV’s comply with new emission limits proposed by the European Commission.

Ophir Energy is replacing CEO Nicholas Cooper with immediate effect, the company announced on 18 May.

Environmental groups opposed to US natural gas exports just found an unlikely ally: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

ABB signs framework agreement with Inpex to support multi-billion dollar Ichthys LNG project.

PetroChina has curbed supplies of the fuel to some industrial users in northern and western regions.

Asian spot LNG prices spiked this week amid a flurry of buying interest from buyers in China, Pakistan, South Korea and India.

Eniram has signed an MoU to participate in Project Forward; a scheme focused on developing a new generation of bulk carriers fuelled by LNG.