Top 5 news of the week May 15-21

LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news on our platform during the week of May 15-21, 2023.

1) State-owned LNG giant QatarEnergy has awarded the engineering, procurement, and construction contract for the North Field South (NFS) project to a joint venture of Technip Energies and Consolidated Contractors Company.

2) Shell has resumed shipping liquefied natural gas from its 3.6 mtpa Prelude floating LNG producer offshore Western Australia following an unplanned two-day shutdown.

3) Australian engineering firm Worley and US LNG exporter Venture Global LNG have signed a deal for the construction of the latter’s proposed CP2 LNG export terminal in Louisiana.

4) A unit of China’s state-owned energy giant PetroChina said it had supplied the commissioning cargo to Hong Kong’s first FSRU-based LNG import facility, owned by a joint venture of CLP Power and HK Electric.

5) Japan’s shipping giant K Line has signed a long-term deal to charter a newbuild LNG carrier to Mitsubishi Corporation’s unit Diamond Gas International.

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QatarEnergy progresses commissioning of first NFE LNG train

State-owned LNG giant QatarEnergy is progressing with commissioning activities at the first train of the North Field East LNG project in Qatar despite the ongoing Middle East crisis, according to EPC contractor Technip Energies.

Excelerate confirms Colombian FSRU charter deal, LNG carrier purchase

US FSRU player Excelerate Energy confirmed that it has signed a seven-year charter agreement with a unit of Canadian firm Frontera Energy to deploy its FSRU to a new LNG import terminal under development in Colombia. Excellerate also confirmed that it purchased a TFDE LNG carrier to convert it to an FSRU.

Coastal Bend LNG seeks OK to start pre-filing process for Texas project

Coastal Bend LNG is seeking approval from the US FERC to initiate the pre-filing process for its planned 22.5 mtpa LNG export facility on the Texas Gulf Coast.
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