
Australia has officially taken the crown of the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas on an annualized basis, according to report by the energy consultancy EnergyQuest.

Dutch contractor Fugro has lost its arbitration with Singapore’s Tasik Toba Subsea related to an early termination of a six-year charter for the Southern Star vessel. As a result, Fugro has been ordered to pay $26.8 million to Tasik.

The Gate liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the Dutch port of Rotterdam has closed the year 2019 with a record number of ship operations.

British-flagged commercial vessels will again be accompanied by Royal Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Sempra Energy and Saudi Aramco through its respective units, Sempra LNG and Aramco Services Company, have signed an Interim Project Participation Agreement (IPPA) for the Port Arthur LNG export project under development in Jefferson County, Texas.

Shipping services group Clarksons completed the first LNG freight futures trades on CME between commodity traders Vitol and Trafigura at the end of December 2019.

The Korean Register (KR) has appointed Hyung-chul Lee as its 24th Chairman & CEO.

Kinder Morgan-led Elba Island liquefaction project near Savannah, Georgia has received the green light to introduce hazardous fluids to MMLS unit #5.

Four persons were killed following a pirate attack on a hopper dredger in the Gulf of Guinea.

Exports from the Peruvian liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Pampa Melchorita edged down during the month of December.

Flex LNG, the company controlled by billionaire John Fredriksen and an emerging player in the LNG shipping business, saw another one of its newbuilds hit the water at the South Korean Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard.

Polarcus, a Dubai-based seismic contractor, has recorded a decrease in its vessel utilization during the fourth quarter of 2019. The vessel activity also decreased on a full year basis from 87 percent in 2018 to 79 percent in 2019. Quarterly vessel utilization was at 71 percent compared to 96 percen

Nigeria LNG makes Train 7 FID Nigeria LNG has made the final investment decision (FID) for its Train 7 project, which will increase the NLNG facility’s production capacity by 35 percent. BW LNG: BW Magna FSRU modification complete BW LNG, a unit of the Singapore-based gas shipping giant BW Group, sa

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