Top 5 news of the week December 13-19

LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news on our platform during the week of December 13-19, 2021.

1) 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.

2) Tor Olav Troim-led Golar LNG is joining forces with Idan Ofer’s Eastern Pacific Shipping for a new development that includes separating its LNG shipping business and creating a new company.

3) US LNG player New Fortress Energy said it has finalized a 15-year deal with a unit of Norway’s Norsk Hydro to supply natural gas to the Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil.

4) Japan’s shipping giant MOL and Dutch storage tank firm Vopak have signed a deal to jointly own the world’s largest FSRU which will serve a new LNG terminal in Hong Kong.

5) Sweden’s Terntank said it has named the first out of two LNG-powered hybrid tankers currently under construction at China Merchants Jinling Shipyard in Yangzhou.

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