Tag: LNG

Turkey in talks with ExxonMobil over multibillion-dollar LNG deal

April 28 (Reuters) – Turkey is in talks with US energy giant ExxonMobil over a multibillion-dollar deal to buy liquefied natural gas, in an effort to curb its dependence on Russian energy, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The country is seeking to build a “new supply portfolio” that will make it less reliant on […]

Next US LNG Export Plant Aims to Begin Production in Mid-2024

(Bloomberg) — Venture Global LNG Inc. expects to begin production at its second liquefied natural gas export facility in Louisiana in mid-2024, further cementing to the US as the world’s biggest supplier of the super-chilled fuel. Most Read from Bloomberg The Arlington, Virgina-based company requested approval to receive an LNG shipment to cool down its […]

TXOGA excoriates methane rule, LNG ban

Apr. 18—The Texas Oil & Gas Association has come down hard in its criticism of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a new rule on methane emissions and in support of the U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee’s recent hearing in Port Arthur on the Biden administration’s pause of liquified natural gas export permit approvals. […]

New LNG terminal ship reaches site off German island

A new floating terminal to provide Germany with liquefied natural gas (LNG) has reached its operational base, as Europe’s largest economy continues to reorientate its energy sources in the wake of the war in Ukraine. The almost 300-metre long Energos Power arrived off the port of Mukran on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen on […]

Ghana’s LNG Project on Target for Year-End Completion: Regulator

(Bloomberg) — Ghana’s top oil regulator expects the country’s long-delayed natural gas-import terminal to be completed by the end of the year, despite numerous setbacks. Most Read from Bloomberg The pipeline-and-storage network that will receive liquefied gas deliveries is under construction and due to be completed before the end of the year, Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, chief […]

House backs Pfluger’s LNG bill

Feb. 15—WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed and sent to the Senate a bill proposed by Congressman August Pfluger to reverse President Joe Biden‘s ban of the construction of new liquefied natural gas export terminals. “President Biden has used every weapon and every tool available to him to make producing […]

US House to vote on Biden’s LNG pause Friday, White House defends move

By Timothy Gardner, Valerie Volcovici and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican lawmakers opposing President Joe Biden‘s pause on LNG export approvals said the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Friday on a bill to take those approvals out of the hands of the Department of Energy. The bill has been in development since […]

Islamic State Raids Mozambique Town as Total Plans LNG Return

(Bloomberg) — Islamic State-linked fighters carried out their deadliest attack on Mozambican troops since 2021, according to a researcher, ratcheting up security concerns ahead of TotalEnergies SE’s planned return to build a $20 billion liquefied natural gas project. Most Read from Bloomberg Fighters raided the northeast town of Mucojo, 136 kilometers (85 miles) south of […]

Republican says US House to vote on reversing Biden’s LNG exports pause-Bloomberg

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives will vote next month on a measure to overturn the Biden administration’s moratorium on approvals of new liquefied natural gas exports, Bloomberg reported, citing a Republican lawmaker. The measure will be voted on the week after next, the report said, citing Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the chair […]

What to know about LNG and Biden’s decision

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals i n the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The decision by President Joe Biden, announced as the 2024 presidential election year kicks off, aligns the […]