LNG

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. As New Fortress Energy Inc. (NFE) prepares to start operations on its floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit offshore Tamaulipas, Mexico is…

Labor unions went on strike Friday at Chevron Corp.’s Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG export terminals in Western Australia, and no further negotiations over pay and working conditions are planned, the company said.  Periodic work stoppages started at 1 p.m. Perth time Friday and will now occur in blocks over the course of several hours each…

Tellurian Inc. has one less permit challenge to its Driftwood LNG project after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday denied a petition by environmental groups. Healthy Gulf and Sierra Club had filed last year a petition for the court to review and possibly vacate a permit issued by the Army…

Oneok Inc. is waiting on the sanctioning of a proposed LNG export terminal on Mexico’s Pacific Coast before proceeding with the 2.8 Bcf/d Saguaro Connector pipeline out of the Permian Basin, management indicated Wednesday. CEO Pierce Norton and his team discussed the midstreamer’s North America plans during the Barclays CEO Energy-Power Conference in New York.…

State-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), the country’s largest LNG importer, has entered a joint venture (JV) to build more of the massive vessels that transport the super-chilled fuel around the world.  The company has partnered with China Merchants Energy Shipping Co. Ltd. (CMES) and Japan’s NYK Line to build six liquefied natural gas…

Latin American LNG imports so far this year haven’t changed compared to last year as drops in Brazil imports are being offset by gains elsewhere. From Jan. 1 through to Aug. 29, Latin American imports of liquefied natural gas were 8.42 million tons (Mt), compared to 8.3 Mt in the same period last year, according…

“One of the most important goals in Mexico is to reach energy security,” Carlos Alberto Boone de Nova, director of business intelligence and public affairs at Énestas México, told NGI’s Mexico GPI. “To achieve that, we must increase our storage capacity — which currently is estimated at only 2.4 days — as well as expand…

ConocoPhillips agreed last week to buy 2.2 million metric tons/year (mmty) of LNG from Mexico Pacific Ltd.’s (MPL) Saguaro Energia export terminal planned for the country’s west coast, pushing the project closer to a final investment decision (FID). MPL CEO Ivan Van der Walt said ConocoPhillips’s commitment pushed the company’s sales volumes for trains one…

Canada’s largest natural gas producer Tourmaline Oil Corp. has agreed to join Rockies LNG Partners, a group of explorers working to advance a 1.6 Bcf/d export project on the west coast of British Columbia (BC). The Ksi Lisims floating liquefied natural gas facility as proposed would be sited in the territory of the Nisga’a Nation…