Operations have begun at what is likely to be the last LNG terminal to be built in North America.

The first sale and purchase agreement for LNG produced from the US Gulf Coast has been signed by BG Group and Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC, a unit of Cheniere Energy Partners LP.

Analysis of drilling and test data from 14 wells drilled since the 1950s has indicated the presence of a world class shale gas play in the Basque Country of northern Spain.

An Eni group has drilled a giant gas discovery at the first well in Area 4 off northern Mozambique that the company said is the largest operated find in its history.

Canada’s National Energy Board has issued a 20-year license to KM LNG Operating General Partnership to export LNG from Kitimat, BC, to Asia-Pacific markets.

Operations at Europe’s only LNG exporting plant, Statoil’s Hammerfest on Melkoya island, will cease Oct. 14 to address a contraction in a heat-exchanger tube. The company announcement said the plant would remain shutdown for 2-3 weeks.

Teekay LNG Operating LLC and Marubeni Corp. plan to acquire Maersk LNG for $1.4 billion, the parent conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk Group announced Oct. 12 in a news release from Copenhagen.

Dominion Resources Inc., Richmond, Va., has asked the US Department of Energy for permission to use its Cove Point, Md., LNG import terminal as an export facility as well.

Chevron Australia has awarded a $235 million (Aus.) construction management contract for the Wheatstone LNG project to WorleyParsons.

African natural gas that is now being liquefied for export could be redirected to domestic electric power generation as customers in Europe, Asia, and the US exploit shale gas resources in their own countries, experts suggested during a discussion of African energy needs.

Total SA and Russian independent producer Novatek signed final agreements to develop Yamal LNG (OGJ Online, Mar. 21, 2011).

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said its latest exploratory well off Mozambique found 140 net ft of gas pay in Miocene and Oligocene sand packages shallower than those in earlier wells and boosted its view of the resource potential of Offshore Area 1 to at least 10 tcf of gas.