South Korean shipbuilding giant Samsung Heavy Industries has received an order to build two liquefied natural gas-powered very large crude carriers. The order worth 253.6 billion Korean won ($209.2 million) was placed by a Bermuda-based ship owner, Samsung said on Tuesday. Samsung did not reveal the
German giant Volkswagen Group said it will soon have at disposal two LNG-fueled vessels it chartered from Siem Car Carriers. The sister vessels named Siem Confucius and Siem Aristotle during a ceremony at Xiamen Shipbuilding’s yard in China last year will replace two of Volkswagen’s nine conventiona
Poland’s Grupa LOTOS signed an agreement with LOTOS Paliwa and Remontowa LNG Systems to build a pilot LNG station in Gdańsk-Osowa.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is temporarily suspending an environmental assessment of a proposal to bring the closed Kenai LNG plant in Alaska back online as an import facility. FERC said on April 8 it would suspend the environmental review for the project until the U.S. Pipeline and Haz
LNG exports from the three liquefaction plants located on Curtis Island off Gladstone reached 1.82 million tons during March 2020.
Annova LNG, a project proposed for development on the Port of Brownsville, Texas, deep water channel received approval by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Peruvian liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Pampa Melchorita saw an increase in volumes exported during the month of March.
South Korea’s refiner GS Caltex is now using liquefied natural gas instead of oil to power its Yeosu refining plant in a move to reduce carbon emissions. Low sulfur heavy oil emits 76 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per terajoule compared to 56 tons of CO2 emitted from LNG, according to GS Caltex. The
Liquefied natural gas exports from the United States slipped over the week ending April 8.
Russia’s largest independent natural gas producer Novatek boosted its production in the first quarter of this year while the company’s sales decreased. Novatek said Thursday that natural gas production rose by 2.2 percent year on year to 19.1 billion cubic metres. The Russian company’s production of
China’s Sinopec started constructing additional storage tanks at its liquefied natural gas import terminal in Tianjin. The construction of five 220,000 cubic metres LNG storage tanks is a part of the second expansion phase of Sinopec’s Tianjin terminal. The expansion also includes an additional jett
The European Union member states paid about 16.2 billion euros for the 108 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas they imported last year, according to the Commission’s latest gas market report. Last year’s LNG imports increased by a record 48 billion cubic meters or by 75 per cent when compa
Dallas-based Kosmos Energy noted that the Coronavirus impact on time-critical workstreams resulted in the delay of the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim LNG project’s timeline delay.
Prices of the spot liquefied natural gas imported into Japan during the month of March remained flat compared to the previous month.
