Top 5 news of the week October 7-13

LNG Prime brings you the five most popular news on our platform during the week of October 7-13, 2024.

1) South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean has secured an order worth about $1.26 billion to build LNG dual-fuel containerships.

2) Chevron’s Australian unit does not expect protected industrial action at its Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG plants to impact LNG production.

3) Dutch terminal operator Vopak and its partner Transnet Pipelines are moving forward with their plans to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in South Africa’s Richards Bay.

4) Australian LNG player Woodside has completed the previously announced acquisition of US LNG developer Tellurian. Woodside also renamed Tellurian’s Driftwood LNG project Woodside Louisiana LNG.

5) A unit of UK-based energy giant BP has won an arbitration against its partner Kosmos Energy over a dispute related to LNG sales from BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project in Senegal and Mauritania.

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Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG to commission fourth tank

US LNG exporter Venture Global LNG has received approval from the US FERC to commission the fourth storage tank with LNG at its Plaquemines plant in Louisiana.

Worley gets full notice to proceed on first phase of CP2 LNG project

Australian engineering firm Worley has received a full notice to proceed from US LNG exporter Venture Global LNG under its reimbursable EPC contract for the first phase of the CP2 LNG project in Louisiana.

US FERC issues final SEIS for NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG project

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has released a final supplemental environmental impact statement for NextDecade's Rio Grande LNG facility and the accompanying pipeline in Texas. FERC continues to conclude that approval of the projects would result in "less than significant impacts."

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