Asian energy giant PetroChina plans to join with Shell Canada and major energy companies in Japan and South Korea in developing a liquefied natural gas export project in British Columbia. Shell will hold a 40 percent stake in the project, with Korea Gas Corp., Mitsubishi Corp. and PetroChina Co. each holding 20 percent shares, the [...]
Qatar will build a $5.5 billion petrochemical plant in the northern industrial city of Ras Laffanby 2018, as the Gulf state steps up investment to utilize its huge gas reserves. State-controlled Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Petrochemical Co., or Qapco, signed an agreement Monday to build an ethane and butane cracker that will produce 1.4 million [...]
Qatar said Thursday it has signed a deal to supply South Korea with 2 million metric tons a year of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, for 20 years from 2013, the latest in a string of deals struck over the last two months with energy-hungry Asian countries. Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Co. 3, owned [...]
Cheniere Energy Partners has entered into a long-term gas supply with the Gas Authority of India Limited (Gail) for the Indian state owned company to buy 3.5 million tonnes a year of liquefied natural gas. “GAIL has signed a sales and purchase agreement [SPA], for supply of LNG over 20 years, with Sabine Pass Liquefaction, [...]
Noble Energy has entered a heads of agreement with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and D&H Solutions to explore the use of floating LNG to export natural gas from the Tamir and Dalit fields offshore Israel, Noble said 29 November 2011. Noble Energy operates Tamir and Dalit with 36% interest, with partners Isramco Negev 2 [...]
France’s Total SA and Royal Dutch Shell Plc plan to expand capacity of their liquefied natural gas terminal in western India by more than a third, buoyed by strong demand for the fuel in the country, a senior Shell executive said. “We are indeed expanding capacity at our LNG terminal [in a joint venture with Total] [...]
A natural gas field discovered more than 30 years ago deep in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest could finally be linked to the outside world, according to plans detailed by federal oil company Petrobras. Petrobras, as the energy giant is also known, has won regulatory approval for a 140 kilometres pipeline from the Jurua natural gas discovery [...]
The Western Australian state government has given its final environmental approval for US oil major Chevron’s proposed A$25 billion ($26.5 billion) Wheatstone LNG project, Environment Minister Bill Marmion said in a statement Tuesday. The approval was granted with 24 conditions designed to protect marine fauna, including whales, turtles and dugongs, Marmion said. It followed consultation [...]
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