European LNG Headlines
Posted on May 17, 2010 in Liquefaction, Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on European LNG Headlines
Spain’s El Musel Terminal Pushed Back to Late 2012 (ICIS Heren) [Subscription required] Endesa to Sell Sagunto LNG Stake to Osaka Gas (ICIS Heren) [Subscription required] Norway’s Statoil Says Snohvit LNG Shutdown to Last About a Week (Platts LNG Daily) [Subscription required] Croatian Trio Target Adria LNG Entry (ICIS Heren) [Subscription...
FERC Requests Schedule for Oregon LNG Pipeline Open Season, Citing “Uncertainty” of Environmental Review
Posted on May 17, 2010 in Federal Regulation, Markets and Competition, Pipelines, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on FERC Requests Schedule for Oregon LNG Pipeline Open Season, Citing “Uncertainty” of Environmental Review
Last Friday FERC requested that Oregon LNG provide its schedule for the open season for capacity on the Oregon Pipeline associated with the Oregon LNG import project. In its letter, FERC noted that “[c]onsidering the uncertainty of the outcome of the environmental analysis, the fact that [Oregon LNG] ha[s] not attempted to garner the critical project information that [it] would...
Shell Official: Global Demand for LNG Could Double by 2020
Posted on May 17, 2010 in Markets and Competition | Comments Off on Shell Official: Global Demand for LNG Could Double by 2020
Anne Packard, an official for Shell Upstream International’s Australian division, told the Sydney Morning Herald that she believes that global demand for LNG could increase from 200 million tons per year to between 350 and 400 million tons annually by...
European LNG Headlines
Posted on May 14, 2010 in Liquefaction, Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on European LNG Headlines
Romania Announces Strategy for the Gas Route (Balkans.com)
ConocoPhillips Considering Other Uses for Freeport LNG Facility
Posted on May 13, 2010 in Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on ConocoPhillips Considering Other Uses for Freeport LNG Facility
According to Platts LNG Daily [subscription required], ConocoPhillips CEO Jim Mulva said yesterday that his company is considering uses other than importing LNG for the Freeport LNG regasification facility, including storage or as a hub for moving natural gas around the...
LNG Industry Working Toward FLNG Vessels
Posted on May 11, 2010 in Financing, Liquefaction, Markets and Competition | Comments Off on LNG Industry Working Toward FLNG Vessels
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal published an analysis of the emerging floating LNG (FLNG) vessel concept. The piece notes that floating liquefaction facilities face a number of technical challenges, including the problem of minimizing LNG sloshing, and financial challenges, such as maintaining project profitability in the face of soft global natural gas prices. [Subscription...