Top 5 news of the week August 5-11

LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news on our platform during the week of August 5-11, 2024.

1) India’s Swan Energy has revealed plans to sell its 2020-built 180,000-cbm FSRU, Vasant 1.

2) US LNG exporting giant Cheniere has signed a long-term deal to supply liquefied natural gas to Portuguese energy firm and LNG player Galp.

3) State-owned LNG giant QatarEnergy is looking to order a new batch of the world’s largest LNG carriers in South Korea, adding to the 18 QC-Max LNG carriers it booked at China’s Hudong-Zhonghua earlier this year, according to shipbuilding sources.

4) US construction and engineering firm Kiewit disclosed “thousands of pages of confidential information” regarding Venture Global LNG’s Plaquemines LNG terminal to a unit of energy giant Shell, according to LNG exporter Venture Global LNG.

5) Germany’s Meyer Werft has floated out the second of three LNG-powered vessels it is building for Disney Cruise Line, a unit of the US-based Walt Disney Company.

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Manzanillo Gas & Power has secured financing for its Manzanillo LNG-to-power project in the Dominican Republic, which includes a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU).

ALNG expects to enter LNG trading by year-end

Norway’s ALNG, the owner of two TFDE LNG vessels, expects to enter LNG trading with its first transaction by the end of this year, according to interim CEO Jens-Julius Ramdahl Nygaard.

ExxonMobil dishes out $1.1 billion in Rovuma LNG contracts

US energy giant ExxonMobil and its partners in the planned Rovuma LNG project in Mozambique have awarded $1.1 billion in pre-investment contracts for long-lead upstream equipment.

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