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Environmentalists and other activists are marshaling their troops to continue their battle against the recently authorized global exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Cove Point LNG Terminal on the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County, MD.

GDF Suez Gas NA is accepting through the end of 2013 nonbinding bids for liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply from its proposed advanceLNG Project, “an initiative to provide attractively priced LNG to a wide array of customers in the U.S. Northeast,” the company said Monday.

Dominion Resources Inc. is well into the process to secure a partner to farm-out about 100,000 prospective liquids-rich acres in West Virginia, offering a can’t-lose proposition for both sides, a spokesman said Monday.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week gave Marcellus Shale gas producers hope for a waterborne route to market for the product that they have so much of.

Veresen Inc. has filed an application with Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) for a long-term license to export natural gas from Canada to the United States to supply its proposed Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) project at Coos Bay, OR, the Calgary-based company said Tuesday.

Both the overall number of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects that ultimately are built and the total volumes of LNG exported may be significantly less than once projected for the United States, experts said Tuesday at the LDC Gas Forum Mid-Continent in Chicago.

Two companies recently filed with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for authorization to export containerized liquefied natural gas (LNG) to free trade agreement (FTA) countries.

Trunkline LNG Export LLChas awardedTechnipthe front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the potential expansion of an existing liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Lake Charles, LA, to make it an LNG export facility (seeDaily GPI,Aug. 8). The project includes an LNG liquefaction plant with export capacity of up to 15 million tonnes per annum. The capacity could be achieved through up to three identical trains, with associated utilities and offsite facilities, as well as the reuse of the existing LNG offloading, storage and marine facilities.Air Productshas been selected to supply its C3MR liquefaction process technology for the FEED study. Technip’s operating center in Houston will execute the contract with support from the company’s center in Paris. It is scheduled for completion during the first half of 2014.

The number seven is a symbol of fortune and intelligence in China and that luck is being pressed by the Asian-owned seventh proposal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to the Orient from the Pacific Coast of British Columbia (BC).