Freeport-McMoRan Energy has missed its deadline and can no longer build an onshore Alabama pipeline to a longer offshore pipeline that would have brought liquefied natural gas from an import terminal in the Gulf of Mexico, the US Federal ...
Sustained weak demand from North Asian LNG end-users, reflected in the slump in spot prices, has shown little sign of recovering despite the start of the traditionally stronger summer season. Coming out of the April-May shoulder months, ...
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Japan's Inpex signed Tuesday shipbuilding and shipping contracts for two new LNG tankers, which will deliver cargoes to its new Naoetsu import terminal as well as to Taiwan's CPC from the Ichthys project in northern Australia, a company ...
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There has been some uneconomic duplication of facilities such as loading jetties at the three LNG export projects being built on Curtis Island offshore the eastern Australian port of Gladstone, a senior executive at one of the projects ...
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BP has become the second oil and gas major in a day to announce it would have a new chief for its Australian operations, following fast on the heels of a similar announcement by ExxonMobil. Andy Holmes has been appointed president of BP ...
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US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz indicated Thursday that decisions on at least some of the pending applications to export US liquefied natural gas would be made before the end of the year. During his first appearance before the House ...
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Pieridae Energy Canada, the developer of the Goldboro LNG project in Nova Scotia, has signed a 20-year sales agreement to start delivering 5 million mt/year to German utility E.ON in the first quarter of 2020, Pieridae said Monday. The ...
Heartened by a brief mention of liquefied natural gas exports by President Barack Obama, the new head of the US trade group for shale gas producers said Thursday he thought Obama should hasten a permitting process that has issued only two ...
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Unconventional gas from central Australia's Cooper Basin could be the answer to a looming supply shortage in the eastern state of New South Wales, according to Beach Energy Managing Director Reg Nelson. Beach has been among the ...
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Kuwait will increase its oil production capacity to about 3.6 million b/d by 2022, according to a study by the emirate's Diplomatic Center for Strategic Studies (DCSS). The official KUNA news agency reported Wednesday that the study said ...
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Gas for same- and next-day delivery firmed Wednesday morning on the UK's NBP trading hub following a rise in demand which caused some slight early shortness in the system and the need for medium range storage withdrawals. Gas for ...
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India's state-owned gas utility GAIL expects to import 34 spot LNG cargoes in fiscal year 2013-14 (April-March), more than double the 16 spot cargoes it imported in the previous year, to meet demand for the Dabhol LNG terminal and make up ...
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A spike in Japan's thermal coal imports in April was more a short-term push to accommodate new coal-fired power generation capacity coming online rather than any sign of a sustained long-term trend, according to a report by Macquarie ...
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A combination of new supply sources and rising costs at home could mean Australia's burgeoning LNG sector losing ground to new players, several speakers at an oil industry conference in Brisbane warned this week. On Sunday the chief ...
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The location and nature of the Scarborough natural gas field off Western Australia mean the project will be "very challenged from a cost point of view," Mark Nolan, ExxonMobil's vice president for Middle East and Australia, said Monday. ...
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