International

Jera Co. Inc., Japan’s leading power producer and one of the world’s top buyers of LNG, has signed two tentative agreements for ammonia supply that include exploring plans for a Gulf Coast production facility fed by low-carbon natural gas. Jera disclosed Monday memorandums of understanding (MOU) with a unit of Yara International ASA and CF…

Asking natural gas and oil executives about the market, their projects, cash flow and budgets is a staple of the NGI Thought Leader team’s daily routine. Turning that microphone around to ask journalists the questions is a bit trickier! The Thought Leader team was up for the challenge, though, to editorialize as we enter 2023.…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kept the backers of Cedar LNG guessing about the project’s fate when Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida came calling for supply last week. As the leaders met in Ottawa, Haisla Nation and Pembina Pipeline Corp. awaited provincial and federal rulings on the C$3 billion (US$2.3 billion) plan for a liquefied natural…

Egypt ramped up LNG exports last year to maximize use of its terminals and further its role as a hub of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern supply  to Europe. Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El-Molla said in a press briefing Wednesday that Egypt exported around 8 million tons (Mt) of liquefied natural gas during…

TotalEnergies SE and Switzerland-based energy supplier MET Group said Friday they’ve secured regasification capacity at the new offshore LNG import terminal at Lubmin on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast.  TotalEnergies said it is now one of Germany’s main liquefied natural gas suppliers, while MET Group said the capacity would allow it to fulfill agreements signed with…

Royal Dutch Shell plc’s Prelude floating LNG (FLNG) vessel offshore Western Australia remains offline more than three weeks after another fire broke out on board.  Shell said a small fire was detected on Dec. 21 in a turbine enclosure and quickly extinguished. However, liquefied natural gas production was suspended pending an investigation, the company said. …

A roundup of news and commentary from NGI’s LNG Insight: Cheniere Energy Inc. will be working through January to demobilize construction crews at its Sabine Pass LNG facility and file required information after completing construction on its third marine berth, according to a filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The additional berth, completed in…

The European Union’s (EU) energy regulator plans to publish a daily LNG price assessment starting Friday as part of policies established last year to create a bloc-wide benchmark. The EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) was ordered to begin publishing price assessments by Jan. 13 after the European Commission (EC) passed new…

Shell plc has inked a 10-year, 0.8 million metric ton/year (mmty) offtake agreement for additional supply from Oman’s majority state-owned liquefied natural gas terminal starting in 2025.