MEEI Minister Delivers Address At Atlantic LNG Event
(MEEI, 27.Jul.2021) — The Minister of Energy and Energy Industries and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister The Honourable Stuart R. Young M.P delivered the feature address at...
Vale Gets Permission To Import LNG
(S&P Global, 15.Jul.2021) — Brazilian multinational metals and mining company Vale has received permission from ANP, Brazil's energy regulator, to import LNG for its own industrial uses. The company has...
ANP Authorizes To Import LNG
(Argus, 14.Jul.2021) — Brazil has authorized iron ore producer Vale to import LNG to serve its own heating demand. Brazilian oil and gas regulation agency (ANP) will allow Vale to...
Petrobras On LNG Regasification Terminal Leasing
(Petrobras, 21.Jun.2021) — Petrobras, following up on the releases disclosed on 1 October 2021 and 16 April 2021 informs that on 14 June 2021, a public session was held to...
Colombia’s UPME Extends Investor Selection Deadline For LNG Terminal
(Energy Analytics Institute, 11.Jun.2021) — Colombia’s Energy Mining Planning Unit, or UPME, announced that the investor selection process related to a second liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal would take...
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International Gas Union Releases 12th Annual World LNG Report [PDF Download]
(International Gas Union, 3.Jun.2021) — The International Gas Union (IGU) is today releasing its 12th annual World LNG Report, the world's most comprehensive public source of information on key developments...
Invenergy, BW LNG Finish FSRU Financing
(Invenergy, 12.May.2021) — Global sustainable energy developer Invenergy and global liquefied natural gas (LNG) solutions provider BW LNG announced that they recently closed a $128.3mn financial package with IDB Invest to finance...
Argentina Ramping Up LNG Imports
(Natural Gas Intelligence, 26.Apr.2021) — Argentina has commissioned a second floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to meet higher-than-expected natural gas demand this upcoming winter in the Southern Hemisphere. The...
Atlantic Mourns Passing Of Minister Khan
(Atlantic LNG, 19.Apr.2021) — LNG production company Atlantic expresses heartfelt condolences on the passing of Senator the Honourable Franklin Khan, Minister of Energy and Energy Industries. We join the national...
Petrobras On Leasing Of LNG Regasification Terminal
(Petrobras, 16.Apr.2021) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 1 October 2020, published today the Call for the second bidding process to lease the Bahia LNG Regasification Terminal...
CB&I Awarded LNG Storage Contract For Philippines’ First LNG Import Terminal
(McDermott International, Ltd, 14.Apr.2021) — McDermott International, Ltd announced that its CB&I Storage Solutions business has been awarded a contract by Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company of Manila Inc. (AG&P)...
Total, Siemens To Reduce LNG Related Emissions
(Total, 13.Apr.2021) — Total and Siemens Energy signed a Technical Collaboration Agreement to study sustainable solutions for CO2 emissions reduction. The collaboration will focus on natural gas liquefaction facilities and...
LatAm Briefs: Venezuela’s 7+7 Quarantine, Elections In Peru
(Energy Analytics Institute, 5.Apr.2021) — Energy briefs from the Latin America and Caribbean region including: Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announces the start of another 7+7 quarantine rotation and Peru eyes...
WoodMac On Suez Canal Congestion
(WoodMac, 24.Mar.2021) — According to Wood Mackenzie’s VesselTracker – as of 24 March, one LNG vessel is "trapped” within the canal. The Golar Tundra loaded at Egypt’s Idku on 21...
Shell Completes Sale Of Interest In QCLNG
(Shell, 15.Mar.2021) — QGC Common Facilities Company Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shell, today announced it has completed the sale of a 26.25% interest in the Queensland Curtis LNG...
Seaspan Reveals 10 LNG Containership Newbuilds
(Seaspan, 12.Feb.2021) — Seaspan Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlas Corp., today announced that it has entered into agreements with a major shipyard for 10 - 15,000 TEU dual-fuel...
ZIM And Seaspan Announce Deal For LNG-Fueled Vessels
(ZIM Integrated, 12.Feb.2021) — ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd., and Seaspan Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlas Corp., announced today a strategic agreement for the long-term charter of ten...
No Bids By Petrobras For Renting Of LNG Terminal
(Petrobras, 1.Feb.2021) — Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 1 October 2020, informs that the bidding process started on 3 August 2020 was ended, with no valid proposals,...
Review Of Economic, Financial Developments (Jan. 2021): Trinidad
(Energy Analytics Institute, 31.Jan.2021) — Key highlights from the January 2021 Economic Bulletin from the Central Bank of Trinidad & Tobago follow. -- The COVID-19 pandemic continued to have broad-based...
Panama Canal LNG Vessel Bottleneck Could Go Months
(Reuters, 14.Jan.2021) — Congestion delaying LNG shipments via the Panama Canal is expected to last through the peak demand winter months, traders close to the situation said, although the canal’s...
Reganosa To Operate LNG Terminal In Ghana
(Reganosa, 12.Jan.2021) — Reganosa has been awarded the contract to operate and maintain a liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal in Tema, Ghana. Currently under construction, the Tema LNG terminal...
Pompeo On Win-Win Solutions, Capital Storming
(Energy Analytics Institute, 6.Jan.2021) — US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo comments on win-win mineral solutions in certain countries from DRC to Brazil as well as other issues related to...
Total Asks Mozambique Staff To Leave Over Attacks
(Bloomberg, 1.Jan.2021) — Total SE asked some staff to vacate its $20 billion Mozambique liquefied natural gas project as Islamist militants are staging attacks increasingly closer to the site. Fighters...
KOMAX Desuperheaters Generating Energy
(Komax, 15.Dec.2020) — Komax Systems, Inc., has created a desuperheater that works for both gas and steam applications and is helping harness the energy of the future, liquified natural gas...
Energy Capital Vietnam And Gunvor Form Trade JV
(ECV, 8.Dec.2020) — Energy Capital Vietnam (ECV), a US-based project holding and development company established in 2015 to serve as a platform for private investment into Vietnam, has announced the...
Venture Global LNG Awards KBR Contract Export Facility
(Venture Global, 23.Nov.2020) — Venture Global LNG, Inc. announces that KBR has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract as lead contractor for Phase 1 of the Plaquemines...
Sempra Announces FID Of Costa Azul LNG Project
(Sempra Energy, 17.Nov.2020) — Sempra Energy announced that its subsidiary ECA Liquefaction (ECA LNG), a joint venture between Sempra LNG and Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.B. de C.V. (IEnova), has reached a...
Mexico To Give Sempra LNG Export Permit
(Reuters, 13.Nov.2020) — Mexico will give the local unit of U.S.-based Sempra Energy an export permit for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in northwest Mexico, as long as the...
Sempra Energy Excited About US Position
(Sempra, 5.Nov.2020) — Sempra Energy reported third-quarter 2020 earnings of $351mn, or $1.21 per diluted share, compared to third-quarter 2019 earnings of $813mn, or $2.84 per diluted share. On an...
UPME On Pacific Facility Investor Selection
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Oct.2020) — Colombia’s Mining and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) officially started the investor selection process for the Pacific Gas Import Infrastructure project, which will encompass LNG storage,...
France’s Total Charters Four New LNG-powered Vessels
(Total, 28.Oct.2020) — Total is pursuing its strategy to reduce greenhouse gases emissions in maritime transportation, by chartering four Aframax-type vessels equipped with liquefied natural gas (LNG) propulsion. These vessels,...
Exmar Inks $150mn Agreement With YPF
(Energy Analytics Institute, 19.Oct.2020) — Belgium-based Exmar reached a $150mn settlement with Argentina’s state-controlled YPF SA related to a dispute under the Tango FLNG agreements. In the deal, YPF will...
Mexico Announces Infrastructure Projects
(Platts, 5.Oct.2020) — Mexico announced on Oct. 5 a set of infrastructure projects worth almost $14 billion to reactivate the economy, including a new coker for one of its six...
Heard On The Street: Argentina’s Gas Dilemma
(Energy Analytics Institute, 30.Sep.2020) — If Argentina is unable to boost its natural gas production, piped gas imports from Bolivia as well as liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports injected from...
Petrobras To Waive Capacity At Regasification Terminal
(Petrobras, 29.Sep.2020) — Petrobras, in response to Official Letter 7132/2020/CGAA4/SGA1/SG/CADE, dated 29 September 2020, and further to the notice disclosed on 3 August about the lease of the LNG Regasification...
Petrobras To Review Golar’s Participation In Terminal
(Reuters, 28.Sep.2020) — Brazilian oil producer Petroleo Brasileiro SA said it will review liquefied natural gas (LNG) company Golar Power's participation in an ongoing tender to lease an import terminal...
Argentine Gas Imports Were 42.2 MMcm/d In July 2020
(Energy Analytics Institute, 26.Sep.2020) — Argentina’s imports of natural gas from liquefied natural gas (LNG) and piped gas from Bolivia reached 42.2 million cubic meters per day (MMcm/d) in July...
Gas Sector Dynamism Consolidated In Colombia
(Promigas, 14.Sep.2020) — The 2020 Natural Gas Sector Report presented by Promigas provides a concrete overview of Colombia in terms of reserves, investments, energy security, networks and transportation, as well...
Air Products To Supply Four Cryogenic Heat Exchangers
(Air Products, 9.Sep.2020) — Air Products, the world's leader in liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology and equipment, will provide four of its MCR® Main Cryogenic Heat Exchangers (MCHEs) for Sonatrach's...
McDermott Inks FEED Deal For Vietnam Gas Pipeline
(McDermott, 26.Aug.2020) — McDermott International Ltd. today announced it has been awarded a contract by Delta Offshore Energy to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a subsea gas pipeline....
YPFB To Suspend Gas Service To Caranavi
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Aug.2020) — Bolivia's Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) announced plans to suspend residential gas supplies to communities in Caranavi starting 21 August 2020. The Bolivian state entity...
EnergyQuest’s 1st Australian LNG Shipment To Chile
(EnergyQuest, 19.Aug.2020) — Australia has just shipped its first LNG cargo to Chile. The cargo is from the Shell-operated QCLNG project at Gladstone in Queensland. It was transported aboard the...
Cameron LNG Reaches Full Commercial Operations
(Sempra LNG, 10.Aug.2020) — Sempra LNG, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, announced the Cameron LNG export facility in Hackberry, Louisiana, has begun full commercial operations under Cameron LNG's tolling agreements....
Petrobras Reveals Details Of Bahia LNG Terminal Lease
(Petrobras, 3.Aug.2020) — Petrobras, in accordance with the commitments made through the Agreement signed with the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), on 8 July 2019, and following up on...
Chevron Expects To Restart Train 2 Of Gorgon LNG Plant
(Reuters, 28.Jul.2020) — Chevron Corp expects to restart Train 2 of its Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Australia in early September after completing repairs, a company spokesman said...
Ecuador Eyes Its First LNG Import Terminal
(Argus, 27.Jul.2020) — US firm Sycar plans to build Ecuador's first LNG import terminal, with construction expected to start in 2021. Sycar, in partnership with an unnamed LNG trading firm,...
Colombia Relaunches Bid Process For LNG Terminal
(Shearman & Sterling, 15.Jul.2020) — The Colombian government has issued a new timetable for the tender with respect to the design, construction and operation under a build, own and operate,...
Total Secures $15.8bn For Mozambique Gas Project
(Reuters, 8.Jul.2020) — French oil major Total has secured $15.8 billion in funding for its massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in northern Mozambique, according to South African lender FirstRand's...
Petrobras Eyes LNG Units For Pre-salt Gas
(Reuters, 3.Jul.2020) — Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras is considering installing offshore units to liquefy the growing natural gas production from the so-called pre-salt area, the company’s emissions and climate...
Golar Power Enters Alliance With Galileo
(Galileo Technologies, 2.Jul.2020) — The Agreement was signed yesterday in Sao Paulo and will leverage Golar Power’s natural gas distribution Project, without pipelines, in the interior of Brazil. The project...
Argentina’s Subsidy Not Enough To Boost Production
(GlobalData, 29.Jun.2020) — Adrian Lara, Senior Oil & Gas Analyst at GlobalData, commented on announcements from Argentina’s government to implement a new plan for subsidizing oil and gas production in...
YPF Issues Force Majeure Notice On Tango FLNG
(Reuters, 26.Jun.2020) — Belgian shipping company Exmar has said that it had received a force majeure notice from Argentine oil company YPF SA under charter and services deals for the...
Trinidad Cuts Oil, Gas Budget Price Assumptions
(Argus, 25.Jun.2020) — LNG exporter Trinidad and Tobago has reduced the crude and natural gas price assumptions in its national budget. According to the finance ministry's mid-year economic review obtained...
Total And Sonatrach Extend Their LNG Partnership
(Total, 25.Jun.2020) — Total and Sonatrach have signed an agreement to renew their partnership in the field of liquefied natural gas (LNG). This agreement notably allows to extend the existing...
Keith Rowley’s Address – Energy, Renewables Event
(Trinidad Prime Minister, 24.Jun.2020) — Prime Minister Dr the Hon Keith Rowley’s Feature Address – Energy Efficiency and Renewables Conference 2020. Ladies and Gentlemen, a very good morning to you...
Global LNG Demand Faces Seasonal Contraction
(WoodMac, 2.Jun.2020) — The global liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry is about to face its first seasonal demand contraction since 2012, with demand in summer 2020 expected to fall 2.7%...
Gastech To Host Virtual Conference In 2020
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 30.May.2020) — Gastech 2020 will now take place virtually, from 7-11 September 2020, with strategic and technical conference content streamed online, enabling the natural gas,...
Global LNG Demand Resilient Amid COVID-19
(IHSMarkit, 30.Apr.2020) — The COVID19 pandemic has led to lockdowns across the globe and severe downgrades for short-term macroeconomic indicators. A major re-evaluation is needed for the supply and demand...
LNG Continues Enhancing Global Energy Security: IGU
(IGU, 27.Apr.2020) — The International Gas Union (IGU) is pleased to launch its annual LNG report for 2020. The comprehensive analysis highlights all the material changes in the global LNG...
Cameron LNG Begins Train 3 Final Commissioning
(Cameron LNG, 22.Apr.2020) — Sempra LNG, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, announced that Cameron LNG has entered the final commissioning stage for the Phase 1, three-train liquefaction-export project in Hackberry,...
Galileo Sales VP Gabriel Lorenzi Interviewed By GBR
(Global Business Reports, 9.Apr.2020) — Twenty years ago it was impossible to think about an off-grid natural gas network. Today, Africa can build it with our innovative and efficient technologies,...
Triple Whammy: Oil Crash, Covid-19, LNG Oversupply
(WoodMac, 1.Apr.2020) — In its latest short-term gas and LNG outlook report, Wood Mackenzie weighs the risks coronavirus, sustained low oil prices and LNG oversupply pose to the sector this...
Sempra’s Virtual Investor Day Focuses On Resilience
(Sempra, 24.Mar.2020) — Sempra Energy's senior management team is providing an update on the company's business strategy on an Investor Day conference call, including details on the company's five-year capital...
Promigas Guarantees Energy Security In Colombia
(Promigas, 2.Mar.2020) — Because of the drought that has been affecting Colombia, reservoir levels have fallen this week to 44% of capacity, which represents a useful hydroelectric generation volume of...
Venture Global And EDF Ink LNG PSA For 1 MTPA
(Venture Global, 25.Feb.2020)— Venture Global LNG, Inc. announces that Venture Global Plaquemines LNG, LLC and Électricité de France, S.A. (EDF) have entered into a 20-year Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA)...
Trinidad Cancels Gas Deal Over US Sanctions
(Aljazeera, 3 Feb 2020) — Trinidad and Tobago has cancelled an agreement with Venezuela for the joint development of a natural gas field straddling their maritime border because of United...
Plans For An Ecuadorian LNG Terminal
(Sycar, 31.Jan.2020) — SYCAR LLC is working with a mayor LNG Trading firm for the development of a LNG import terminal for Ecuador, South America. The project includes port facilities...
Asia Pacific Gas, LNG: 6 Themes To Watch In 2020
(WoodMac, 13.Jan.2020) — Wood Mackenzie has identified six themes that will impact Asia Pacific’s gas and LNG markets in 2020. Asian LNG spot prices to fall further In 2019, the...
EP PetroEcuador Ends Bajo Alto Plant Maintenance
(Energy Analytics Institute, Piero Stewart, 26.Dec.2019) — A scheduled stoppage at the Bajo Alto Natural Gas Liquefaction Plant located in the El Guabo in the province of El Oro concluded...
Cameron LNG Facility Begins Production At Train 2
(Sempra LNG, 23.Dec.2019) — Sempra LNG, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, announced that Cameron LNG has begun producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the second liquefaction train of the export...
EDP Closes Financing In El Salvador
(EDP, 23.Dec.2019) — Energía del Pacífico (EDP) today announced completion of project financing for the liquefied natural gas (LNG)-to-power project currently under construction at the Port of Acajutla, El Salvador....
Petrobras To Lease LNG Regasification Terminal
(Petrobras, 9.Dec.2019) — Petrobras, in accordance with the commitments made through the Agreement, signed with the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), on July 8, 2019, informs that it is...
Petrobras To Lease Out LNG Terminal
(Argus, 9.Dec.2019) — Brazilian state-controlled Petrobras has started pre-qualifying bidders for a long-term lease of its 20mn m³/d Bahia LNG import terminal and associated pipeline, opening the company's lock on...
Chile LNG Imports Slump As Argentina Pumps More Gas
(Argus, 6.Dec.2019) — Chilean imports of liquefied natural gas have fallen to their lowest level in at least three years as the South American country imports more gas from neighboring...
JCC-indexed LNG Contracts Could Lose $15bn
(WoodMac, 21.Nov.2019) — Wood Mackenzie’s latest report reveals that LNG sellers with contracts linked to JCC (Japan Crude Cocktail) could lose some US$15 billion in unearned revenues. This is a...