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Elengy launches open season at Fos Cavaou LNG terminal

Novatek bags new Arctic block

Refloating of Evergreen vessel blocking Canal Suez might take days or weeks

Giant container ship blocks Suez Canal, disrupts LNG deliveries

Shipping through the Suez Canal was blocked when one of the world’s largest container ships ran aground after being blown off course by a sandstorm at the southernmost stretch of the canal close to Suez City. The blockage has disrupted LNG transit.

QP makes more LNG moves

Qatar Petroleum continues to make new moves related to its LNG business, including striking a new long-term supply deal with China’s Sinopec.

Petronas delivers first cargo from PFLNG DUA

Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas has delivered its first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Petronas Floating LNG DUA (PFLNG DUA) facility.

Giant container ship runs aground blocking Suez Canal to maritime navigation

Annova LNG scraps export terminal plan

The field of new LNG export terminal proposals continues to thin in the US, with Annova LNG scrapping its project in South Texas this week.

Chevron stops funding for Kitimat LNG

Chevron announced last week that it was stopping directing funding to the proposed Kitimat LNG project on the British Columbia coast in Western Canada.

Qatar Petroleum signs 10-year, 2mn tonne per year LNG supply contract with China’s Sinopec

GLNG: Russia’s long-term strategy and a US project scrapped

Russia has approved a long-term LNG strategy, targeting up to a three-fold increase in production to 140mn tonnes per year (tpy) by 2035. Meanwhile, in the US, the field of new export terminal proposals continues to thin, with Annova LNG scrapped.

ABB to provide electrical systems for Mozambique LNG

ABB, the Swedish-Swiss engineering concern, revealed last week that it had agreed to provide “comprehensive integrated and intelligent electrical systems” for the Mozambique LNG project.

Russia approves long-term LNG strategy

YATEC eyes Russian LNG foray

Russia's Novatek gas major surprises with 2H20 dividends

Environmentalist NGO protests expansion of Croatia’s Krk LNG terminal

US LNG’s resilience during the pandemic

The latest figures from the US Energy Information Administration illustrate the resilience of US LNG during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Azerbaijan’s SOCAR Trading has ‘set up team to develop integrated LNG-to-power projects’

MSJ party’s leader criticises Port of Spain over transfer pricing for LNG

David Abdulah, the leader of Trinidad and Tobago’s socialist Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) Party, wants the government to respond to a new report alleging that transfer pricing for LNG caused Port of Spain to incur $18bn in losses in 2010-2018.

IES urges Ghana to withdraw support from Tema LNG terminal

Ghana’s Institute of Energy Security (IES) has urged officials in Accra to withdraw their endorsement for plans for the construction of an LNG import terminal at the port of Tema.

Karpowership, Mitsui prepare to deploy FSRU offshore Senegal

Karmol, a joint venture formed by Turkey’s Karpowership and Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), is preparing to transfer a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) to Senegal, where it will be used for an LNG-to-power project.

US government identifies Mozambique’s ASWJ as a terrorist organisation

The US Department of State has designated Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamo (ASWJ), the Islamist group that has staged attacks in areas near the onshore Mozambique LNG complex being built by Total (France), as a terrorist organisation.

Damietta LNG gears up to load third cargo since restart

The Damietta LNG plant in Egypt is preparing to export its third cargo since resuming operations last month, according to Italy’s Eni, a shareholder in the facility.

ExxonMobil eyes LNG supply to Albania

GLNG: Albanian feasibility study, US exports and carbon-compensated LNG in Spain

Plenty of LNG-related developments continue to emerge, including a feasibility study for an import terminal in Albania, the delivery of a carbon-compensated cargo of LNG by Repsol in Spain and details of US exports of the super-chilled fuel in 2020.