China National Offshore Oil Corp.’s (CNOOC) Fujian terminal has received its first LNG cargo from Indonesia’s BP PLC-led Tangguh LNG project.

Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Co. is considering plans to increase LNG production at its complex on Das Island beyond 2019, when its 4.7-million tonne/year LNG sales contract with Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) expires, according to Poten & Partners, New York, an industry consultancy.

Indonesian authorities said they expect to deliver a second cargo of LNG to China’s Fujian Province from the Tangguh LNG facility in Papua Barat.

Two more land-based LNG regasification terminals received first cargoes in the last few days.

Indonesia’s Tangguh LNG project, the country’s third LNG center after Bontang and Arun, lifted its first cargo on July 6, according to operator BP PLC.

At mid-2009, prospects for global LNG demand “remain bleak,” according to a research report issued at the end of June by Barclays Capital.

The three joint venturers in the Gorgon-Jansz gas and LNG project in Western Australia have been given conditional interim authorization from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to market gas in the state.

Qatar Liquefied Gas Co. III (Qatargas) has signed a 20-year agreement to sell Poland 1 million tonnes/year of LNG.

Japanese companies aiming to purchase supplies from Indonesia’s Donggi-Senoro LNG plant in Central Sulawesi have extended the deadline for the consortium of companies developing the plant to negotiate prices and availability with the government.

Santos Ltd. has signed a heads of agreement with its Gladstone LNG project partner Petronas of Malaysia to sell 2 million tonnes/year of LNG from the project to Petronas with an option of an additional 1 million tonnes/year.