Japan’s Inpex Corp., owner and operator of the planned Ichthys LNG plant near Darwin, Australia, has awarded to ABB, Zurich, $80-million contracts to supply power technologies and medium-voltage drive systems for the project.

Total SA has increased its interest in the Ichthys LNG project off northwest Australia to 30% from 24%.

Production was halted temporarily by Statoil at Hammerfest LNG on July 10 “as a result of water ingression in the natural gas dryers,” the Norwegian state-owned company reported.

Chilean energy company Gas Atacama has awarded a contract to Golar LNG Ltd. for Gas Atacama Mejillones seaport's floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU).

Australian Pacific LNG—a group comprising Origin Energy Ltd., ConocoPhillips, and Sinopec—has reached a final investment decision (FID) to build a second train at the coal seam gas-LNG plant on Curtis Island, near Gladstone in Queensland.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd.’s proposed Browse LNG Project has suffered a blow as the company has let lapse a supply deal with Taiwan’s CPC Corp.

DCP Midstream Partners LP, Denver, will buy the 80-MMcfd Crossroads gas processing plant and associated gathering in Harrison County, Tex., from Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP, Radnor, Penn. The purchase price is about $63 million.

Qatar Liquefied Gas Co. Ltd. (Qatargas 1) has signed a long-term LNG sales and purchase agreement with Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc. (Tepco), Japan’s largest LNG buyer. The SPA was signed June 11 in Doha.

A partnership led by Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said it made a discovery offshore Mozambique that establishes a second major natural gas complex in Offshore Area 1 in the Rovuma basin.

Malaysia’s Petronas let a turbocompression contract to GE Oil & Gas for planned Train 9 at the Bintulu LNG complex in Sarawak.

A second project to build floating natural gas liquefaction has received approval, as Malaysia’s Petronas reported a final investment decision (FID) for a 1.2 million tonne/year project for off Bintulu, Sarawak.

Shell Canada Ltd. and its partners have selected TransCanada Corp. to design, build, own, and operate the proposed 700-km, 1.7 bcfd Coastal GasLink, a $4 billion pipeline that will transport natural gas from the Montney gas-producing region near Dawson Creek, BC, to LNG Canada’s recently announced LNG export facility near Kitimat, BC (OGJ Online, May 16, 2012).

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp., Bogata, via a build, own, and operate contract with Exmar NV, Antwerp, has authorized engineering and construction of what will be the world’s first floating natural gas liquefaction, regasification, and storage vessel.