Encana Natural Gas Inc. has opened Louisiana’s first liquefied natural gas fueling station at Frierson along Interstate 49 about 15 miles south of Shreveport.

Cheniere Energy Partners LP (CEP) has taken a step toward a final investment decision on the Sabine Pass LNG export project by entering an exclusive agreement for financing worth $2 billion.

Malaysia’s Petronas announced Feb. 22 it will add a ninth LNG train to its Bintulu, Sarawak, complex on Borneo. The train with have a nameplate capacity of 3.6 million tonnes/year and bring total capacity at the site to 27.6 million tpy.

Freeport LNG Expansion LP and a joint venture of Zachry Industrial Inc. and CB&I Inc. have agreed to a front-end engineering and design contract for the Freeport Liquefaction Project near Freeport, Tex.

Statoil and ExxonMobil have reported gas shows at a deepwater wildcat in the Mafia Deep subbasin offshore Tanzania which, if successful, will further cement the emerging vast gas prospectivity and liquefied natural gas prospects along the East African margin.

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp., Toronto, said its Cotorra-1X well on the Guama block in Colombia’s Lower Magdalena basin is a gas-condensate discovery in low-permeability Miocene Porquero Medio sands and silts.

Plans to export Canadian-produced natural gas as LNG moved ahead Feb. 2 when Canada’s National Energy Board approved application by BC LNG Export Cooperative LLC for a license to export LNG from Kitimat, BC, mainly to Asian markets.

China’s Sinopec has signed an agreement to add an additional 10% equity interest to its holdings in the Australia Pacific LNG Pty. Ltd. (APLNG) venture for a net consideration of $1.1 billion.