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.
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 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.
Texas-based Sterling Shipyard has delivered a tug to a joint venture comprised of Bay-Houston Management, Moran Towing, and Suderman & Young Towing. The new tug will serve NextDecade's Rio Grande LNG project in Texas.
US LNG developer NextDecade has signed a reservation agreement with compatriot Baker Hughes to secure main refrigeration compressors for the planned sixth liquefaction train at its Rio Grande LNG terminal in the Port of Brownsville, Texas, according to Matt Schatzman, NextDecade chairman and CEO.
Adnoc's investment unit XRG has completed the previously announced acquisition of an additional equity interest in Trains 4 and 5 of NextDecade's Rio Grande LNG terminal in Texas.