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Happy new year 2018!
Happy new year 2018.
Enagás: Spanish natural gas demand up in 2017
Demand for natural gas in 2017 has grown by close to 9 percent in Spain, compared to 2016, reaching 351 TWh, a third consecutive year of increased gas demand in the country.
Eni buys Shell’s stake in Evans Shoal gas field off Australia
Italian energy giant Eni acquired the whole 32.5 percent interest from Shell Australia in the Evans Shoal gas field offshore Northern Australia.
Flex LNG agrees charter deal for its Flex Endeavour newbuild
Flex LNG, the company controlled by billionaire John Fredriksen and an emerging player in the LNG shipping business, signed a time charter deal with Uniper Global Commodities for its LNG newbuild Flex Endeavour.
Austrian natural gas imports from Russia hit record high
Austria’s imports of natural gas from Russia reached 8.25 billion cubic meters of gas, beating the record set in 2005 when the country imported 6.8 bcm.
Fitch: US sanctions cut Russian LNG project funding options
Securing funding for LNG projects could prove to be a challenge for Russia, where some potential project sponsors (Rosneft, Novatek) and fields (Yuzhno Kirinskoye, operated by Gazprom) are under Western sanctions, according to Fitch Ratings.
Top news of the week December 18-23
Cheniere amends Corpus Christi LNG deal with Bechtel The US LNG export player Cheniere said it’s unit Corpus Christi Liquefaction signed a $2.36 billion amended turnkey deal for with Bechtel for Stage 2 of the Corpus Christi LNG facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast. World’s largest LNG shippers upbeat ab
Galp supplies AIDAperla with LNG at port of Funchal
Portugal’s only oil and natural gas operator Galp Energia carried out the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering of a vessel at a Portuguese port of Funchal on the island of Madeira.
Dynagas LNG Partners secures charter extensions for carrier duo
Dynagas LNG Partners, a limited partnership formed by the Greek shipowner Dynagas, secured a new three-year charter deal with Norwegian LNG player Statoil for its 155,000-cbm LNG carrier Arctic Aurora.
Wison delivers barge-based FSRU to Exmar
Wison Offshore & Marine has completed final delivery of the barge-based floating LNG storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to Belgian company Exmar.
Royal IHC lays keel for DEME’s LNG-powered Spartacus
The keel for the Belgian dredging specialist DEME’s LNG-powered cutter suction dredger Spartacus has been laid at the Royal IHC shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel in the Netherlands.
Gazprom, CNPC lay basis for more Russian gas supplies to China
Gazprom and CNPC have laid the basis for another pipeline route of Russian gas supplies to China, Gazprom’s head Alexey Miller said on Thursday.
Port of Tallinn to offer service discounts for LNG-fueled vessels
Starting in 2018, all ships that use liquefied natural gas (LNG) as their primary fuel can apply for a discount of four percent on tonnage fees when calling at the Port of Tallinn.
Klaipedos Nafta wins LNG terminal arbitration case
Lithuanian LNG terminal operator, Klaipedos Nafta said that the Arbitration Institute of Stockholm has resolved a dispute over construction of the LNG import terminal in the port of Klaipeda.