Natural gas news

GAIL (India) Ltd, Deendayal Port Authority, and DNV have signed a tripartite co-operation agreement at Kandla for collaboration on setting up LNG bunkering facility at Kandla Port.

Santos has entered into a binding agreement to acquire a 30% interest in the Meridian CSG project as part of a sale to the GLNG joint venture partners and has completed the sale of its interest in the Mahalo joint venture.

Ebara Elliott Energy and Doosan Enerbility have signed a memorandum of understanding to co-develop advanced gas turbine-driven centrifugal compressors for the LNG industry.

White & Case LLP has advised Citibank, N.A. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as joint lead arrangers, joint bookrunners, and joint structuring agents, as well as IDB Invest, Corporación Andina de Fomento, and the other mandated lead arrangers and senior lenders, on the US$902.3 million senior secured limited recourse project financing for the Manzanillo LNG-to-power project in the Dominican Republic.

Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp., TAQA Arabia, and Africa50 have signed a gas sales agreement for East Africa LNG, the venture developing Tanzania’s first small scale LNG facility.

Suomen Lantakaasu’s has inaugurated Finland’s first industrial scale production facility for bio-LNG in Nurmo.

Lloyd’s Register is delivering classification and technical assurance for the conversion of an LNG carrier into a FSU for Dixstone Lower Gulf FZCO, a Perenco sister company.

CoreMarine has completed the disconnection of the Hilli Episeyo FLNG platform offshore Cameroon.

Kino Aski Inc. and Marinvest Energy Canada Inc. have announced the joint development of Kino Aski LNG, a First Nations-led energy corridor and LNG project designed to supply Europe with competitive, low-carbon Canadian energy.

Hahn & Co., the owner of South Korean shipping companies, SK Shipping and H-Line Shipping, will swap vessels and long-term contracts in a deal that will make SK Shipping Asia's largest LNG carrier operator, as reported by Reuters.