Australia LNG news

Woodside has announced that it has awarded a contract to Bechtel (Western Australia) Pty Ltd to carry out the front-end engineering design work for the Pluto Train 2 project.

Nick Prowse and Penny Cygan-Jones, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, UK, consider the global outlook for the LNG industry, with a focus on recent developments in the US, Asia, Australia, South Africa and Africa.

Evangelos Dimopoulos, Senior LNG Analyst, Braemar ACM Shipbroking, provides comments on the LNG industry 2018/19.

Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd has entered into a time charter party with AGL Shipping Pty Ltd for the provision of a floating storage and regasification unit to facilitate its proposed gas import jetty project.

The Woodside-operated Pluto LNG project has supplied its first gas to the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline with successful commissioning of the Pluto pipeline gas facility.

Total has announced that it has signed an agreement to divest a 4% interest in the Ichthys LNG project in Australia to operating partner INPEX for an overall consideration of US$1.6 billion.

McDermott International Inc. and BHGE have signed a memorandum of understanding with Western Gas Corp. Pty Ltd to be the exclusive development partners for the Equus Gas Project in Western Australia.

Woodside Energy Ltd has announced that it has entered into a long-term gas sale and purchase agreement with Alcoa of Australia Ltd.

Australia has overtaken Qatar as the world’s largest LNG exporter for the month of November 2018.

South Korea’s EPIK has signed an agreement with the Port of Newcastle to develop a FSRU import terminal.