Tag: LNG

After a journey of more than 9,000 kilometres, the first shipment of liquefied natural gas, a single ISO container of gas, left FortisBC’s Tilbury LNG storage facility in Canada, in mid-November, and arrived in China last week.

A 56 year old male worker, who was working at the the INPEX-operated 'Ichthys LNG project' in Bladin Point, outside of Darwin in Australia, lost his life after a workplace incident occurred, on 29 of November.

Höegh LNG announced that, after considering its contract with GEI, the company decided to terminate the FSRU #9 charter agreement signed on 15 December 2016.

Canada-based, FortisBC, announced the departure of the first LNG shipment from Canada to China, from FortisBC's Tilbury LNG storage facility, as part of a project to establish long-term feasibility.

Rodolphe Saadé, General Director of the CMA CGM Group announced the company's decision to register four of its 20,000+ TEUs, under the French Flag. The company has declared its intention to equip the ships with engines using LNG in order to comply with new environmental rules.

The US Trade and Development Agency, in cooperation with LNG Allies, launched the U.S. Gas Infrastructure Exports Initiative. This Initiative aims to connect American companies to new export opportunities across the gas value chain in emerging economies.

Iran is set to export its first LNG cargo at the end of 2018, something that originates from the creation a floating liquefaction project in the Persian Gulf waters, local media reported.

According to Reuters, China's POLY-GCL Petroleum Group Holdings Ltd and Djibouti have signed a memorandum of understanding in order to make an investment of $4 billion in a natural gas project in the Horn of African nation of Djibouti.

According to Reuters, an LNG import project consortium in Pakistan, formed by Exxon Mobil, France’s Total and Qatar Petroleum has been dissolved as the members didn't manage to agree with Global Energy Infrastructure.

Teekay LNG Partners launched the Teekay Multigas Pool, an in-house commercial management solution for ethylene-capable liquefied petroleum gas and small-scale LNG vessels.