Pangea LNG (North America) Holdings LLC, Ingleside, Tex., has begun seeking approvals to build an LNG export plant on Corpus Christi Bay in South Texas.

Levant LNG Marketing, a unit of Pangea LNG BV, has concluded a cost-sharing agreement with Israel’s Tamar Partners, Tel Aviv, that marks progress toward the export of LNG from Tamar and Dalit fields 60 miles off Israel in the Levantine basin.

Malaysia LNG Sdn. Bhd., a production unit of Malaysian national oil and gas company Petronas, has awarded the Linde Group, Munich, a contract to build a midscale LNG plant within the Bintulu LNG complex in Sarawak, East Malaysia.

Skangass AS, Stavanger, has awarded a $57 million engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract to Linde Group, Munich, to build an LNG import terminal at Lysekil on the west coast of Sweden about 62 miles north of Gothenburg.

Nexus Energy Ltd. of Melbourne wants to sell down some of its 17% interest in the Crux gas-condensate field in the Browse basin offshore Western Australia.

The Papua New Guinea government cabinet has approved InterOil Corp.’s Gulf LNG project to be supplied by the Elk-Antelope onshore gas fields with conditions including the 50-50 split of the development between the government and InterOil.

The ExxonMobil Corp.-led Papua New Guinea LNG project has increased its output capacity to 6.9 million tonnes/year of LNG from 6.6 million tpy. However, the estimated capital cost of the development has risen sharply from the December 2011 cost update of $15.7 billion to a new figure of $19 billion.

Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and oil and gas executive agency BPMigas have approved expansion plans for BP PLC-operated Tangguh LNG in Papua Barat province in eastern Indonesia, according to BP.

An ExxonMobil Corp. executive has reportedly disagreed with operator Chevron Corp. on the timing of the fourth train for the Gorgon-Jansz LNG project.