Gregory M. Vesey has been appointed managing director and chief executive officer of Perth-based Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (LNG Ltd.). The move is effective Apr. 4, and he will work from the company’s Houston office. Source: News

PT Medco Energi Internasional Tbk, Jakarta, through its subsidiary PT Medco E&P Malaka, has let a contract to JEC, a consortium of JGC Corp. subsidiary PT JGC Indonesia and PT Encona Inti Industri, to build a gas processing plant as part of its development of Block A, Aceh Province, in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Source: […]

Increasing skepticism regarding an oil output freeze agreement among members and nonmembers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries pushed down crude oil prices on the New York and London markets last week. Source: News

The US Department of Energy and US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration jointly launched an interagency task force to examine natural gas storage safety, DOE Undersecretary Lynn Orr and PHMSA Administrator Marie Therese Dominguez jointly announced. Source: News

A debate over the proposed Nord Stream 2 twin natural gas pipelines, which would stretch about 745 miles across the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany alongside the existing Nord Stream system, quickly centered on whether the project would undermine European energy security or simply enhance its efforts to diversify sources. Source: News

Trinidad and Tobago has said it is open to LNG expansions if the partners of the 10-tcf giant Loran-Manatee natural gas field want to use the field’s production for export. Loran-Manatee field crosses the maritime border of Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. Source: News

In January 2016, Total Oil Trading SA, the oil and gas trading arm of Total SA, Paris, published a revised crude oil assay dated Feb. 9, 2015, for Nigerian Akpo Blend. Source: News