Regasification

While China seeks more natural gas to meet booming demand from the government's clean-air drive, one part of the fuel’s supply chain is not growing fast enough.

New coalition creating a strategy to build up import terminals.

Britain has rebuffed calls from the gas industry for an urgent review of the country’s gas storage capacity after a cold snap this month triggered warnings of supply shortages.

Royal Dutch Shell is close to bagging a deal to supply Hong Kong with LNG, beating out major competitors for the right to be the first company to supply LNG to the city.

Japan’s Osaka Gas has so far not bought LNG cargoes to replace supplies from the shutdown of ExxonMobil Corp’s Papua New Guinea project.

Vitol is targeting Southeast Asia’s booming LNG markets to boost sales and catch up with rival commodity traders by developing import projects in Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The company is seeking one cargo for 10 – 20 April delivery and another for delivery over 20 April to 2 May.

Test centre to enable safer and more efficient use of LNG.

Argentina’s state-run Enarsa awarded part of its 22-cargo LNG purchase tender for May – August delivery to Trafigura, Gunvor, BP, and Vitol.

Bjarte Lund and Carlos Gonzalez, Kyma, Norway, present the benefits of using big data to continuously monitor the performance of LNG vessels.

Ramesh Raman, Arup, USA, and Charles Mantell, Arup, UK, explore the changing face of LNG storage.

As the first US LNG cargoes head to India, USEA chief says it is game changer for global energy security.

Falling industrial demand and mild weather have turned China’s energy giants into sellers of LNG.

Imports of both piped gas and LNG have hovered around record highs in winter months.

Energy executives say the Trump administration’s proposed steel and aluminium tariffs could bump up the cost of big-ticket projects needed for rapidly rising US gas output.