Tag: LNG

The New Jersey-based manufacturer of cryogenic equipment, Cryofab, has acquired the California-based cryogenic valve supplier who also specializes in vacuum valve assemblies, Cryocomp Inc. Cryofab designs and supplies cryogenic dewars, storage vessels and transfer systems for the industrial gas, research, aerospace, medical, semiconductor and pharmaceutical industries.

The use of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) as a cheaper and less polluting alternative to diesel for generators providing the power to remote sites is becoming increasingly widespread. With many thousands of sites throughout the world, oil and gas drilling industry companies are among the operators who have introduced the technique, which involves the use of specialised trailer-based plant to deliver, store and process the gas prior to combustion.

US Senator, Mary Landrieu, has announced that Sempra Energy, the California-based natural gas company, will be constructing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

The Petrobras LNG Regasification Terminal in Bahia has raised its regasification capacity up to 41MCM per day.Petrobras added the first regasified LNG from its new regasification terminal, located in Baía de Todos os Santos, Salvador, in the state of Bahia to the Brazilian gas pipeline network.

GDF SUEZ Gas NA has begun supplying Transgas, the liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucking company in the Northeast, with LNG for use as a vehicle fuel.

Technip, leader of a consortium with Samsung Engineering and China’s Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering Corporation, was awarded a contract for the front-end engineering design and the early detailed engineering services of a grassroot liquefied natural gas (LNG) project by the Pacific NorthWest LNG Limited Partnership.

Intertek, the leading quality solutions provider to industries worldwide, has stated that liquefied natural gas usage, encouraged by offshore and shale gas projects, continues to expand in global markets, as the company attended and exhibited at the LNG-17 conference in Houston, Texas.

French marine engineering company GTT is seeking a partnership with Brazil's HRT Participações and federal energy major Petrobras to monetize natural gas produced in remote Amazon fields. According to GTT, LNG provides the ideal solution for Brazil's gas logistics problems amid rising demand from thermoelectric power plants.

  Mexico is due to import a total 100Mf3/d (2.83Mm3/d) LNG via the Manzanillo and Altamira terminals for approximately one year to guarantee natural gas supply to the country, Alejandro Martínez Sibaja, director of state oil company Pemex's gas subsidiary PGPB said at the BNamericas Mexico Energy Summit in Mexico City.

Linde North America has concluded a successful trial of its new liquefied natural gas (LNG) mobile refuelling unit which is designed to allow customers to test the workability of using the gas as a viable alternative to vehicle fuels such as diesel.