Top 5 news of 2021

As the year is coming to an end, LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news on our platform during 2021.

Before that, we wish all our readers and partners a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year 2022!

The year behind us has been very successful for LNG Prime and we will announce further information in the upcoming month as we celebrate our first full year in operation.

Below, you can find the five most popular news on LNG Prime, including Bilbao Knutsen’s collision in Spain, the upcoming launch of Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass facility, as well as the giant Qatari shipbuilding program.

1) The 138,000-cbm LNG carrier Bilbao Knutsen, owned by Norway’s shipping firm Knutsen, suffered damage after colliding with another tanker offshore the Port of Huelva in Spain.

2) US energy services firm Baker Hughes has won a contract to supply equipment for the expansion of Woodside’s Pluto LNG plant located on Western Australia’s Burrup Peninsula. Woodside took a final investment decision on the Scarborough but also Pluto LNG Train 2 developments worth about $12 billion.

3) Venture Global LNG’s Calcasieu Pass export project in Louisiana continues to progress towards first LNG production while it looks towards full operations in 2022.

4) Indonesian state-owned gas firm PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN), a unit of Pertamina, has started an arbitration process against New York-listed Hoegh LNG Partners over issues related to the Lampung FSRU charter.

5) State-run QatarEnergy has ordered six LNG carriers at two South Korean yards, as part of its massive shipbuilding program revealed earlier this year.

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Technip Energies wins contract for Eni’s Coral Norte FLNG

France-based LNG engineering giant Technip Energies has won a contract for preliminary work on Eni's second FLNG project in Mozambique, Coral Norte (Coral North).

Victrol: LNG London hits bunkering milestone

The Shell-chartered inland bunkering vessel LNG London, owned by a joint venture of Belgium's Victrol and France's Sogestran, has reached a new operational milestone.

Atlantic LNG shipping rates dip, European prices up

Atlantic spot LNG shipping rates decreased this week, marking the largest week-on-week decline since January.

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Mubadala, PGN to evaluate LNG infrastructure for Indonesian gas project

UAE's Mubadala Energy and PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN), a unit of Indonesia’s Pertamina, will conduct a joint study on the utilization of natural gas and the development of gas pipeline and/or LNG infrastructure from the South Andaman block, offshore North Sumatra.

QatarEnergy LNG carrier wraps up trials in China

A 174,000-cubic-meter liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, built as part of QatarEnergy's massive shipbuilding program, has completed its trials in China, according to Hudong-Zhonghua.

Santos inks LNG supply deal with QatarEnergy’s trading unit

Australian LNG player Santos has signed a mid-term LNG supply deal with QatarEnergy Trading, a unit of state-owned LNG giant QatarEnergy.

Golden Pass LNG seeks re-export approval

Golden Pass LNG, a joint venture owned by energy giants QatarEnergy and ExxonMobil, is seeking approval from the US DOE to export previously imported LNG from October, as it nears the launch of the first liquefaction train.