Regasification

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.

AB Klaipedos Nafta has released its preliminary activity and revenue results for November 2017.

Australia’s Mineral Resources has offered AUS$484 million for domestic gas producer AWE Ltd.

CERCG said it is investigating whether to ship LNG from Western Australia to the gas-hungry east coast market.

Asian LNG spot prices rose above US$10 per mmBtu on 7 December.

China’s state-owned CNOOC is spending US$10 million to lease two tankers to store an emergency stash of LNG.

Excelerate Energy and EXMAR NV have announced that they have concluded the acquisition by Excelerate Energy of the full 50% shares held by EXMAR in four companies.

The Soma LNG Terminal is a large scale LNG terminal.