Regasification

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.

The possibility of another warm winter this year has caused natural gas traders to drop futures for the first half of 2018.

Skangas is to source LNG at the import terminal on the Isle of Grain.

Swiss trading houses are expanding into the global market for LNG.