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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Galp wins Calcasieu Pass arbitration against Venture Global

Portuguese energy firm Galp has won an arbitration case against US LNG exporter Venture Global LNG over LNG sales from the Calcasieu Pass plant in Louisiana.

MISC to order five more LNG carriers for Petronas charter

Malaysian shipping firm MISC will order five additional newbuild 174,000-cbm liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers at China's Hudong-Zhonghua. The vessels will serve a 20-year charter with a unit of MISC's parent, Petronas.

Seatrium scores Excelerate FSRU conversion gig

Singapore's Seatrium has secured a floating storage and regasification unit conversion contract with an option for a second contract from US FSRU player Excelerate Energy.

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