Top 5 news of the first week in 2025

LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news on our platform during the week of December 30, 2024-January 5, 2025.

1) Norway’s Equinor has shut down its 4.3 mtpa Hammerfest LNG export plant due to a compressor failure.

2) UK-based energy giant BP and its partners have launched natural gas production at the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim FLNG project, located offshore Mauritania and Senegal.

3) US LNG exporting giant Cheniere has started producing liquefied natural gas at the first train of the Corpus Christi Stage 3 expansion project in Texas.

4) US energy services firm Baker Hughes has secured an order from compatriot Bechtel to supply gas technology equipment for the first phase of Woodside’s Louisiana LNG export project.

5) South Korea’s H-Line Shipping has sold one steam liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier for scrap, according to brokers.

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Excelerate buys GasLog LNG carrier

US FSRU player Excelerate Energy has purchased a 2007-built steam liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier from GasLog Partners, a part of Greek LNG shipping firm GasLog, according to brokers.

NextDecade, Bechtel agree $9 billion EPC deals for two Rio Grande LNG trains

US LNG firm NextDecade and compatriot Bechtel have finalized EPC contracts worth $9.09 billion for the construction of the fourth and fifth trains and related infrastructure at the Rio Grande LNG facility in Texas.

Atlantic LNG shipping rates jump to $49,750 per day

Atlantic spot LNG shipping rates rose to $49,750 per day this week, while European prices also jumped compared to the previous week.

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