Green light for $50bn Gorgon LNG project
The Australian, Amanda O’Brien and Nicolas Perpitch | May 01, 2009
AUSTRALIA’S biggest resources project - Chevron’s expanded $50 billion Gorgon LNG development - could get under way this year, creating thousands of jobs, after gaining reluctant approval from Western Australia’s environmental watchdog.
The massive development on the environmentally sensitive Barrow Island, [...]
By Ben Farey
April 28 (Bloomberg) — The U.K. will get its biggest shipment of liquefied natural gas next week as a jumbo tanker from Qatar arrives at the South Hook LNG import terminal. Gas prices reversed earlier gains.
The Mozah, a so-called Q-Max tanker with a capacity of 268,000 cubic meters, will arrive “on or around [...]
Mitsubish-led LNG project may be shelved
Eric Watkins, OGJ Oil Diplomacy Editor
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 28 – The Japanese-led consortium seeking to build the Senoro LNG plant in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, may have to delay its plans due to lower reserves of natural gas in the Senoro and Matindok fields than earlier estimated.
“We are now waiting for the operators [...]
Brass LNG: How Committed Are The Stakeholders?
Mon Apr, 27 2009
To say that the Brass Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project has been streamed with too much tentativeness is an understatement and this concern is providing ammunitions for critics who have started questioning the issue of genuine commitment of the shareholding partners to the timely take-off of [...]
RAPID RELIEF OF JAPAN’S GAS PAIN — GAZPROM STARTS TO BUILD A GLOBAL LNG MARKET
By John Helmer in Moscow, Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Russia’s maiden LNG terminal became operational in late 2008, after years of controversy over seismic and ground contamination onshore; threats to whale habitats at sea and tax evasion claims in Moscow. Gazprom, Russia’s dominant [...]
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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