Category: Energy News Beat

China LNG deals come at an environmental cost

Energy News Beat China’s LNG deal-making has been gaining momentum, even amid international calls to pull back on gas development due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and methane leakage problems. Chinese gas importers have increased long-term LNG contracts with both Qatar and the U.S., the world’s second and third largest LNG exporters, by nearly 50 percent since late 2022. […]

ENB # 151 Steve Reese How will we survie the energy crisis? You would be surprised.

Energy News Beat Steve Reese is the CEO of Reese Consulting and Reese Training and has significantly impacted the natural gas market for decades. He worked on over 5% of the United States’ natural gas market through his auditing, training classes, and consulting firm. We need training for the next generation, and his newest projects […]

Chevron working to resume full Gorgon LNG production after electrical incident

Energy News Beat Gorgon LNG (Image: Chevron Australia) Chevron’s unit in Australia is working to return to full production from its Gorgon LNG plant in Western Australia following an electrical incident affecting one of the plant’s three trains. The Gorgon LNG plant on Barrow Island has three trains and a production capacity of some 15.6 […]

Inpex shipped 96 Ichthys LNG cargoes in January-September

Energy News Beat Japan’s Inpex has shipped 96 LNG cargoes from its Ichthys export plant in Australia during the January-September period of this year, 16 cargoes more compared to the same period last year. A spokesman for Inpex told LNG Prime on Thursday that the Ichthys project also sent 17 plant condensate cargoes, 22 offshore […]

US LNG exports drop to 23 cargoes

Energy News Beat US liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports decreased in the week ending November 9 compared to the week before, according to the Energy Information Administration. The agency said in its weekly natural gas report that 23 LNG carriers departed the US plants between November 2 and November 8, six vessels less compared to the […]

Canada’s Pieridae ditches Goldboro LNG export plans

Energy News Beat For illustration only (Image: Pieridae Energy) Canada’s Pieridae Energy said it will sell its Goldboro unit as part of its strategic pivot away from LNG. The company has been trying to develop the Goldboro LNG export project for years, including via a floating LNG (FLNG) option. Back in 2020, Pieridae negotiated extensions […]

Glenfarne’s Texas LNG picks Baker Hughes tech, delays FID to 2024

Energy News Beat Glenfarne Group’s Texas LNG has selected Baker Hughes to supply gas compression technology equipment, including electric motor drives, for its planned 4 mtpa LNG export terminal. As part of the partnership between Texas LNG and Baker Hughes, the latter also has a framework agreement to make a strategic pre-FID investment in the […]

UAE’s Adnoc says ‘advancing’ towards Ruwais LNG FID

Energy News Beat UAE’s energy giant Adnoc is getting closer to taking a final investment decision to build its second LNG terminal in Al Ruwais. Earlier this year, Adnoc announced it will build its second LNG terminal in Al Ruwais. The firm previously planned to construct the facility in Fujairah. Adnoc Gas, the gas and LNG unit […]

Italy’s Snam to launch Ravenna FSRU capacity auctions

Energy News Beat Italy’s Snam is working to launch in the upcoming period auctions for regasification capacity at its planned FSRU-based LNG import terminal offshore Ravenna in the Adriatic Sea. This will be Italy’s third FSRU-based LNG import terminal after the launch of Snam’s Piombino FSRU-based facility earlrier this year. Snam’s 170,000-cbm Golar Tundra received […]

Certain COVID-19 Vaccines Linked To Elevated Risk Of Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Energy News Beat Authored by Ellen Wan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As the vaccination rate continues to rise, an increasing number of side effects are being reported. Research indicates that COVID-19 viral vector-based vaccines increase the risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) by three to four times compared to mRNA-based vaccines. The Link Between Vaccines […]