Japan’s JERA, the world’s top buyer of liquefied natural gas, on Tuesday said it had signed an agreement with a Mitsubishi Corp unit to buy up to 16 cargoes, or 1.2 million tonnes per annum (mtpa), of LNG from the LNG Canada project.

Производство СПГ по итогам года выросло сразу на 71%. С учетом роста мощностей Россия вышла в топ-3 стран по мощностям производства СПГ. Мы видим огромный потенциал в этой сфере, потребление СПГ будет расти, и наша ниша на этом рынке - до 100 млн т.

PLATTS - Russian independent gas producer Novatek sees the resource base at Northern Yamal and Gydan peninsulas as allowing for output of 140 million mt/year of LNG, CEO Leonid Mikhelson said Friday.

China’s LNG imports last year were about 54 million tonnes. CNPC accounts for about 60 percent of China’s overall gas imports and 70 percent of domestic production, Ling said. “LNG price will become one of the decisive factors for the amount of LNG imports,” he also said in his presentation.

NOVATEK announced that it has signed a non-binding Heads of Agreement for the supply of LNG with Repsol.

НОВАТЭК и трейдинговая компания Vitol S.A. объявили о подписании Базовых условий соглашения на поставку СПГ

TASS - The share of liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the global gas market may double to reach 70% by 2040, Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak said at the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum on Friday.

DS - Turkey's monthly liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports reached a historic record high at 2.34 billion cubic meters (bcm) in January 2019, according to Turkey's Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) data.

Russian gas producers Gazprom and RusGazDobycha will start a major gas processing and liquefaction project near the Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga, Gazprom said on Friday.

Novatek PJSC is looking at power generation to unlock demand for liquefied natural gas from its massive projects in Russia’s Arctic.