Excelerate reveals US Floating Liquefaction projec
Excelerate Energy L.P. is moving forward with the development of the first floating liquefaction facility in the United States utilizing its Floating Liquefaction Storage Offloading vessel (FLSO) technology.
Located in Port Lavaca, the Lavaca Bay LNG project will be situated between Galveston and Corpus Christi on the Texas Gulf Coast, and will be designed to export LNG to markets worldwide by 2017.
Excelerate Energy's FLSO comprises 3 million tns per annum (MTPA) of production capacity, 250,000CUM of LNG storage, and a fully integrated gas processing plant. CB&I wins contract for petrochem expansion project
CB&I has received a contract valued at approximately USD 300 million, by Williams Olefins, LLC for a petrochemicals expansion project in Geismar, Louisiana.
The scope of the award includes the license and basic engineering for the ethylene technology, the supply of the cracking furnaces, and the detailed engineering, procurement, and construction of the expansion project. FMC wins offshore loading arm systems contract
FMC Technologies, Inc. has signed an agreement with Technip France, on behalf of the Technip Samsung Consortium (TSC), to supply offshore loading arm systems as part of the Shell Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) Project.
Group venture for LNG export facility
Shell, Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS), Mitsubishi Corporation, and PetroChina Company Limited are developing a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Western Canada, near Kitimat, British Columbia.
ThyssenKrupp examining strategic options
The Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp AG informed the Supervisory Board of ThyssenKrupp AG of its decision, in parallel with further technical and commercial optimization, to examine strategic options in all directions for the plants of Steel Americas in Brazil and the USA.

In order to provide reliable electrical distribution product and service solution to its customers in Latin America, GE Energy's Industrial Solutions business celebrated the opening of its new manufacturing facility in Santiago, Chile.