AGRI LNG Project Co. SRL, the project company for the AGRI Project, has let a feasibility study to Penspen Ltd. for the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania-Hungary Natural Gas Interconnector Project (AGRI).

Sixteen western US House members asked Sec. of Energy Steven Chu to move forward on his department’s review of federal policies covering LNG exports and approve pending liquefaction and export terminal applications.

Chevron Corp. reported that a fourth train will be constructed as part of the Gorgon LNG project on Barrow Island, Western Australia. Geryon field, discovered in 2001, and Chandon field, discovered in 2006, will supply the new 5.2 million tonne/year capacity LNG train.

Gazprom and Summa Group have signed a memorandum of understanding indicating their intent to use LNG as a bunker fuel for marine vessels, including those owned and operated by Summa Group, an engineering, construction, and logistics conglomerate based in Moscow.

Yamal LNG OAO will us BASF’s technology for removing carbon dioxide from natural gas, reported BASF.

GNL Quientero, operator of the first LNG terminal to serve the Chilean market, will expand its regasification capacity by 50%, adding a third train to reach about 4.43 million tonnes/year (tpy).

Gazprom has further darkened hope for the ambitious development of Shtokman gas-condensate field in the Barents Sea by turning a 3-year delay into an indefinite postponement (OGJ Online, Feb. 8, 2010).

Excelerate Energy let a contract to Houston-based OGS for topsides front-end engineering and design of Excelerate’s Lavaca Bay LNG floating liquefaction storage and offloading vessel.

Ophir Energy PLC said its Fortuna East-1 stepout on Block R offshore Equatorial Guinea has encountered gas in the eastern lobe of the Fortuna complex and has discovered gas in the deeper Viscata exploration target.

China National Petroleum Corp. reported recent success in a natural gas liquefaction trial in Ansai County, Shaanxi Province. The province has seen extensive natural gas development in recent years, especially from shale and coalbed methane (OGJ Online, Mar. 20, 2012; OGJ Online, June 5, 2012).

Chevron Corp. agreed to exchange some holdings in the Browse LNG development for Shell Development (Australia) Pty. Ltd.’s interests in Clio and Acme fields offshore northwest Australia.

Houston-based Golden Pass Products LLC last week applied to the US Department of Energy to export LNG from the Golden Pass LNG receiving terminal at Sabine Pass, Tex.