Day: March 26, 2025

Venture Global LNG seeks Calcasieu Pass approval from FERC

Energy News Beat Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass requests authorization to place in-service the remainder of the facilities for the project, and the TransCameron pipeline project, according to a filing dated March 25. These include the power island, pre-treatment, LNG storage, boil-off gas (BOG), and marine facilities. “With this submittal, Calcasieu Pass believes it has filed […]

Crowley’s carrier delivers US LNG cargo to Puerto Rico

Energy News Beat “After 492 safe LNG unloadings over 25 years of operation, today EcoElectrica’s LNG import terminal has received and unloaded the American Energy, the first US LNG cargo imported to Puerto Rico,” EcoElectrica said in a social media post on Tuesday. “Currently, EcoElectrica’s LNG terminal handles about 30 percent of the fuel imported […]

U.S. Cybersecurity Weakness Benefits China

Energy News Beat The Trump administration’s group chat breach underscores that Beijing might have the edge in information warfare. ​ China Brief A weekly digest of the stories you should be following in China, plus exclusive analysis. Delivered Tuesday. Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use […]

America Is Listing in a Gathering Storm

Energy News Beat Alarms are clanging at the U.S. geographic military commands around the globe. ​Argument By James Kitfield, a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress. Geopolitical storm clouds are gathering at the far reaches of Pax Americana, and yet there is remarkably little sign that the U.S. […]

Japan’s Tokyo Gas to expand LNG trading business

Energy News Beat Tokyo Gas revealed this in its new medium-term management plan. “Internationally, we will focus on ensuring profitability in our shale gas business while expanding into mid/downstream operations in the US and LNG trading worldwide,” the company said In Japan, Tokyo Gas owns four LNG import terminals (Sodegaura, Negishi, Ohgishima, and Hitachi), and […]

German consortium produces e-methanol from wastewater

Energy News Beat Waterfront Shipping A German city is producing methanol for ships from wastewater in a world-first. A consortium consisting of the climate technology startup ICODOS, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and the Mannheim Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant (EBS) have overseen the project called Mannheim 001 which sees biogas is produced at the […]

Imabari hit by overseas recruitment ban

Energy News Beat At a time when it needs overseas help more than ever before, Japan’s largest shipbuilder has been hit with a five-year ban on accepting foreign trainees. Imabari Shipbuilding has lost its official certification for foreign technical intern programs through to the end of the decade for violating the industrial safety and health […]

AD Ports and Columbia launch shipmanagement venture

Energy News Beat AD Ports Abu Dhabi-based ports and logistics giant AD Ports Group and shipmanagement group Columbia have established a joint venture, Noatum – CSM. The jv will aim to optimise third-party vessel operations and that of AD Ports Group’s fleet through “state-of-the-art” fleet management systems. The newly formed entity combines Columbia Group’s expertise […]

Norden bags pair of capesize newbuilds

Energy News Beat Dry CargoEurope Norden Denmark’s Norden has firmed up its commitment to the capesize bulker segment through a deal for a pair of newbuildings. The Hellerup-based shipping giant will take the vessels on charter, with purchase options attached to the contract. The vessels will be built in Japan, with deliveries set for 2026 […]

Larsen & Toubro wins largest ever contract from QatarEnergy LNG

Energy News Beat QatarEnergy The hydrocarbon arm of Indian engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has received a contract for work on QatarEnergy LNG’s North Field production sustainability offshore compression project. According to a regulatory filing, the contract is the largest single contract ever received by the company. The scope of work encompasses the engineering, […]