
Chinese energy trading center Shanghai Petroleum and Natural Gas Exchange (SHPGX) launched a spot pricing index for LNG imports, Reuters reports.

State-owned Qatar Petroleum has entered into a 15-year sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for the supply of 3.5 million tonnes per annum (mpta) of LNG.

Russia’s only FSRU Marshal Vasilevskiy has loaded an LNG cargo from the Novatek-operated Yamal LNG facility, after sailing across the Northern Sea Route.

Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras has signed the lease contract of the Bahia LNG regasification terminal with U.S.-based LNG specialist Excelerate Energy.

The first single fuel LNG ferry in the Netherlands, Willem Barentsz, has won the international ‘Shippax Technology and Design Award 2021’.

Japanese energy giant JERA will buy a 27 per cent stake in Aboitiz Power, a major power utility in the Philippines, with plans to implement clean energy projects such as LNG-to-power.

Russian LNG producer Sakhalin Energy has agreed on the delivery of the first carbon-neutral/offset LNG cargo from the Sakhalin-2 project to Japanese utility Toho Gas.

Finnish energy company Gasum has marked its first LNG delivery in France by bunkering LNG to French cruise line Ponant’s newbuilt polar explorer.

Spanish energy company Naturgy has delivered the first carbon-neutral LNG cargo in Spain, in addition to offsetting associated carbon emissions.

U.S. small-scale LNG facility JAX LNG and shipping operator TOTE Maritime have completed the first fueling of a marine vessel in the U.S. with a blend of LNG and RLNG.

Australian oil and gas company Beach Energy has signed a deal with BP Singapore regarding the supply of Beach’s share of LNG from Waitsia Gas Project Stage 2.

Spanish companies Siport21, Gasnam, Naturgy, Cotenaval, and ESK will develop LNG bunkering operations conceptual simulator named SiBunker.

Weekly LNG exports increased week over week, while Henry Hub spot prices lowered, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) report.

U.S. classification society American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) have completed a joint development project to develop an optimized LNG carrier design.