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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

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Japan to Launch LNG Futures Market

Japan will likely launch world’s first LNG futures market by March 2015, Reuters said citing a statement by country’s trade minister. The country aims to establish a cash-settled LNG futures market at Tokyo Commodity Exchange to give importers, including power utilities and city-gas...

Chevron Signs LNG Deal with Chubu

Chevron Corporation’s Australian subsidiaries have signed a long term sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Chubu Electric Power Company for liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. Under the agreements Chevron, together with Apache Energy and Kuwait Foreign...

Iran LNG Co. Files Suit Against EU Ban

Iran LNG Company (ILC) has filed a lawsuit with an international tribunal against the European Union (EU) for its ban on the company. Press TV quoted the company as saying that international court has demanded that the European bloc submit documents justifying the ban on the ILC.  At the beginning...

Mitsubishi, Imabari Form JV for LNG Carriers

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Imabari Shipbuilding have agreed to form a joint venture handle the design and marketing of LNG carriers. The JV will come into effect from April 1, 2013. “Through establishment of the JV, the two companies aim to proactively prepare a structure capable of...

BG Group to Ink Major LNG Deal with Gujarat

BG Group is expected to ink a 20 year LNG supply deal worth $20 billion with the Indian state of Gujarat, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday citing people with knowledge of the deal. In 2011, the British company entered an initial agreement with Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation, a state-owned...

Statoil, BG Plan East Africa LNG Terminal

Statoil and BG Group plan to build a $10 billion East African liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to supply the fuel to Asia, after the Norwegian company made a new find off the coast of Tanzania, Reuters reported. 'We have enough gas to move forward,' Statoil's head of exploration...

LNG Terminal at Mangalore Expected by 2018

India’s Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily has said that the Mangalore LNG terminal in New Mangalore Port is likely to be ready by 2018. Speaking at the MoU-signing ceremony for setting up the LNG re-gasification terminal in Mangalore on Monday, he said the consortium of ONGC, BPCL, Mitsui and...

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