WGC: ‘Last mile’ of LNG chain has greatest potential value

Global LNG trade will increase to a base-case 450 million tonnes/year by 2030, from roughly 300 million tpy currently, according to Accenture Strategy. The company’s high-case projections approach 700 million tpy. Western Europe, China, and India will be on the receiving end of the bulk of this increase.   Source: News

DOE’s new NGL primer focuses on Appalachia region

The US Department of Energy released its 2018 Natural Gas Liquids Primer, which focuses on the Appalachia region, on June 26. The latest version reports larger projects with larger ethane production from the Marcellus and Utica shales than previously estimated, DOE said.  Source: News

PGNiG, Port Arthur LNG agree to proposed delivery terms

Officials from Polish Oil & Gas Co. (PGNiG) and Port Arthur LNG, a subsidiary of Sempra LNG & Midstream, signed an agreement relating to delivery terms over 20 years of LNG from the Sempra LNG & Midstream subsidiary’s Port Arthur, Tex., liquefaction facility on June 27 as the 2018 World Gas Conference moved into it […]

Pruitt proposes changes in dredged or fill material discharge permits

US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator E. Scott Pruitt proposed changes in EPA’s role in issuing permits for discharges of dredged or fill materials under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. “These regulations were last revised nearly 40 years ago—at a time in our history when environmental safeguards and analytical methods were far less developed […]

Premier Oil lets monitoring services contract for Huntington field

Premier Oil has let a contract to Ocean Power Technologies Inc. (OPT) to provide communications and remote monitoring services in Huntington field in the central North Sea. The contract calls for a 9-month lease, including an initial 3-month trial. Source: News

South Korea due polypropylene plant

PolyMirae Co. Ltd., a 50-50 partnership of LyondellBasell Industries NV and Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd., will establish a joint venture with SK Advanced Co. Ltd. to build a grassroots polypropylene (PP) plant in the southeastern port city of Ulsan, South Korea, to serve the Asia Pacific region.  Source: News

WoodMac: Southeastern Asian oil and gas players changing

Wood Mackenzie Ltd. said international oil companies (IOC) have divested more than 600 million boe of Southeastern Asia oil and gas assets since oil prices fell in 2014. But a niche group of East Asian and Middle Eastern conglomerates is growing its upstream presence. Source: News