Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. LLC has signed a binding, 20-year firm transportation precedent agreement with Mitsubishi Corp. to ship 600,000 dekatherms/day of natural gas to the proposed Cameron LNG liquefaction plant at Hackberry, La.

Golden Pass Products LLC has taken its first step toward seeking US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission permission to build the 15.6 million-tonne/year LNG export terminal it plans at Sabine Pass, Tex. (OGJ Online, Aug. 27, 2012).

LNG exports could create at least 73,100-145,100 and up to 220,100-452,300 new US jobs over 20 years while having a minimal impact on US gas prices, a new ICF International study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute concluded.

BG Group has signed another binding contract with China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) for the sale of upstream assets in Queensland for $1.93 billion (Aus.).

A joint venture of GDF Suez and Santos has let a contract to the Wood Group Kenny consortium for the pre-front-end-engineering and design of the subsea definition of its proposed Bonaparte floating LNG project in the Timor Sea.

Debate over whether the US should authorize more LNG exports has been too narrowly focused on potential domestic impacts, an energy and geopolitical expert told a US House subcommittee.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd. has made an agreement with Royal Dutch Shell PLC to investigate the possibility of using Shell’s floating LNG (FLNG) technology for the Browse LNG project offshore Western Australia.

Fluxys LNG NV/SA has awarded a turnkey project for expanding the LNG terminal in the Zeebrugge Port to TS LNG, a joint venture between Sener and Techint E&C.

Excelerate Energy, Houston, and Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority have filed a preliminary application with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to install and operate floating offshore LNG regasification off the southern coast of Puerto Rico.

Rosneft and Marubeni Corp. signed a memorandum of cooperation covering possible joint oil and exploration and development as well as associated LNG project implement, the companies reported.

The US Department of Energy’s Fossil Energy Office and Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources agreed to work together along with potential investors to study unconventional energy resources in Alaska’s Arctic.