Engineering firm STATS Group has completed the pipeline isolation operations at the Kumang Cluster onshore tie-in project at Petronas LNG Co… (transportationandstorage) [mappress] Source: transportationandstorage, September 9, 2011;
Top level experts and industry leaders from across the world will gather in Brisbane later this year for a two-day international Gas Symposium hosted by the Queensland Government. Queensland Treasurer and Minister for State Development and Trade Andrew Fraser announced the program as a world first c
Plans to build a natural-gas pipeline from Russia to North and South Korea may be accelerated, according to South Korean President Lee Myung… (bloomberg) [mappress] Source: bloomberg, September 9, 2011;
Taiwan paid 47 percent more to import liquefied natural gas in August while purchases rose 1.7 percent from a year earlier, according to dat… (bloomberg) [mappress] Source: bloomberg, September 9, 2011;
The Andhra Pradesh government has requested the Centre to build a Liquefied Natural Gas terminal on the east coast of the state to meet natu… (economictimes) [mappress] Source: economictimes, September 9, 2011;
Tokyo Electric Power Co used a record amount of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for power generation last month as the No.1 and No.7 units at it… (reuters) [mappress] Source: reuters, September 9, 2011;
Samsung Heavy Industries has successfully developed the industry’s first membrane-type cargo hold for LNG tankers. With this, the company has finally tackled the last unsolved development initiative for the Korean shipbuilding industry, which was the cargo hold manufacturing technology for LNG tanke
Total announced a major gas discovery in the Caspian Sea in the Absheron block offshore Azerbaijan. The Absheron X-2 well has encountered more than 500 feet of cumulated net gas pays within high quality sands on the northern flank of a major 270 square kilometres structure. Reservoirs are expected t
Pacer International, Inc., the North American freight transportation and global logistics services provider, announced that it is adding a number of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)-powered trucks to its Southern California Cartage fleet. The trucks will operate through Pacer’s cartage subsidiary, Pacer
The Russky Island (Vladivostok) hosted Thursday celebrations dedicated to the commissioning of the first startup complex at the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system (GTS) and to the launch of gas supplies to the Primorsky Krai. Taking part in the event were Vladimir Putin, Cha
The cost of hiring liquefied natural gas carriers on year-long charters exceeded $100,000 a day for the first time since 2006 as a shortage… (businessweek) [mappress] Source: businessweek, September 9, 2011;
A third cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will arrive at the Gate import terminal in the Netherlands in the first week of October, the first delivery under a long-term deal between Spain’s Iberdrola and Denmark’s DONG Energy , a trader with knowledge of the deal said. (reuters) [mappress] Source:
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions provider, and Shell Oil Company have signed a Joint Co-operation Agreement aimed at promoting and accelerating the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel. The agreement was signed in August 2011 and will run for several years. Supplies o
Liquefied Natural Gas major Petronet LNG Thursday said it expects to finalise investment in the power sector in the next 2-3 months, in join… (zeenews) [mappress] Source: zeenews, September 8, 2011;
