Regasification

The LNG industry needs to start planning for shortages even as analysts project a glut starting next year.

Gail India has tendered to buy LNG for delivery between 20 January and 10 February.

Beijing’s crackdown on pollution has put China on track to overtake Japan this year as the world’s biggest importer of natural gas.

Government data published on 2 January showed that output jumped 7.9% to beat a 2011 record.

Shipping data in Thomson Reuters Eikon shows that China’s imports of LNG will have risen by more than 50% in 2017.

LNG finished 2017 in stunning fashion as a crackdown on pollution in China boosts demand for cleaner fossil fuels.

Wison has completed delivery of the world’s first barge-based FSRU to Exmar.

The gas imports which once helped Egypt avert power blackouts may soon be a thing of the past. 

Indian gas company GAIL is renegotiating its LNG purchase deals with US-based Cheniere Energy and Dominion Cove Point.

As a first of its kind for the country, Chart’s latest compact LNG regasification station is fully operational on-site in Mexico.

Perenco SA and Golar LNG Ltd. will start shipments from their US$1.2 billion LNG project off Cameroon in February.

CNOOC hires 100-truck convoy to ship LNG to icy north.

LNG is being re-exported to China from Japan and tankers are being diverted from as far away as Brazil.

Early on 14 December, after a journey of more than 9000 km, the first shipment of LNG from Canada arrived in China.

Russian natural gas company Gazprom and its European partners are seeking to build Nord Stream 2.