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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Yang Ming books LNG-powered containerships in South Korea

Taiwan’s Yang Ming Marine Transport has decided to order LNG dual-fuel container vessels from South Korea's Hanwha Ocean as part of its ongoing fleet optimization plan.

Sabah to take stake in Petronas’ third FLNG

SMJ Energy, owned by the Sabah government, has signed a heads of agreement with Malaysian energy giant Petronas to take a 25 percent stake in the latter's third floating LNG production unit.

Japan’s LNG imports drop in June

Japan’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports dropped by 2.8 percent in June compared to the same month last year, according to provisional data released by the country’s Ministry of Finance.

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