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It's not often that police barricades signal the end of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. But Marathon Oil's last hopes for building a regasification terminal in the Mexican city [...]

As new details about the cause of the deadly Jan. 19 blast at the Skikda liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Algeria emerged last week, a US based interagency [...]

Marathon Oil isn't declaring its proposed Tijuana Regional Energy Center in Baja California, Mexico, dead just yet, but the project's health is deteriorating, which is ironic in that LNG receiving [...]

Repsol YPF last Thursday bid $2.437 billion for the Reynosa-Monterrey multiple service contract (MSC), thus becoming the first foreign oil firm to participate in Mexico's upstream sector, since the oil [...]

Defaults, like profits, are a part of doing business, warns China's premier, after Haixin Steel and Chaori Solar failed to make payments on debt. 'Li Keqiang told reporters that China [...]

The world's second largest economy, China, has most likely overtaken the United States as the world's biggest trader in goods, based on 11 months of data from 2013. 'Trade with [...]

Energy companies love to gussy up annual reports with pictures of their plants at night, lights ablaze. However, there's a new trend among engineers for kindler, gentler, less intrusive lighting [...]

Eager for less volatile energy prices and cleaner fuels, Caribbean nations are beginning to explore the possibilities of importing natural gas. Despite the challenges of a complex seafloor and small, [...]

For regasification terminal developers targeting the West Coast--particularly those seeking sites in Baja California, Mexico--pipeline access will be key to project economics and ultimate success. Three onshore and three offshore [...]

Mexico's state oil company Pemex finished the year strongly, with natural gas production averaging a two-year high at 4.616 Bcf/d in December. Crude production rose to near Pemex's goal of [...]

Sempra Energy and the Royal Dutch/Shell Group have merged their liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Baja California. The 50%-50% venture--which essentially takes the form of Sempra's originally proposed terminal--is [...]

Mexico's efforts to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) will do more than reduce its deficit. By providing gas to the US and lessening the demand pushing up US prices, Mexico [...]

The Calgary-based limited partnership Fort Chicago Energy Partners has agreed to purchase a 16.41% interest in the Portland Natural Gas Transmission System (PNGTS) from affiliates of DTE Energy. PNGTS is [...]

A resolution pending in the US House of Representatives trying to link the opening of Mexico's oil and gas industry to foreign investment with immigration policy has provoked a backlash [...]

Mexican regulatory authorities are moving forward with two liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects on its western coast, although the projects still face some significant hurdles. Sempra Energy has received the [...]

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group plans to import only enough liquefied natural gas (LNG) to its Altamira project in Mexico to meet its commitments to Mexican utility Comision Federal de Electricidad [...]

Officials in Trinidad and Tobago fear that liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports threaten to swamp the country's domestic energy industries centered on their ammonia and methanol exports. Trinidad and Tobago's [...]

Canadian and US energy regulators last Monday signed a 10-year agreement to coordinate reviews of cross-border energy projects. The cooperation could reduce time and paperwork for projects including the Alaska [...]

Trinidad and Tobago, the largest supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the US, hopes to take a future stake in a re-gasification plant to be built in that country [...]

Pemex plans to target mid-sized companies this summer when it tenders multiple service contracts (MSC) spurned in the first bidding round last year. The shift in strategy--Pemex had very large [...]

Repsol YPF plans to build a 390-MMcf/d LNG terminal in the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, to begin operations in 2008. The company snatched the project from rival Tractebel with [...]

Algeria expects to award a contract for developing its 970 MMcf/d Gassi Touil field in the next couple of months with a number of companies in the running to develop [...]

Pemex last week awarded the multiple services contract (MSC) to produce gas from its Olmos block to Lewis Energy Group, a gas producer in southern Texas. Lewis bid $343.6 million [...]

Mexican gas imports and production are set to become much more flexible, with a recent memorandum of understanding between Pemex and Tidelands Oil & Gas of Texas. The latter will [...]

Pemex has gone back to the drawing board after failing to attract bids on its latest multiple service contract (MSC) last week. Both Total and Repsol-YPF passed on the Corindon-Pandura [...]

Marathon Oil signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) last week for liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies with Indonesian state oil company Pertamina and Indonesian upstream company Exspan for it's Tijuana [...]

Oklahoma City-based Energas Resources recently spent about $3 million acquiring additional properties in the Appalachian Basin of eastern Kentucky. Energas acquired approximately 23,000 leased acres and 8,500 optioned acres. Along [...]

Duke Energy completed the sale of its interest in Foothills Pipe Lines to TransCanada PipeLines for US$181 million (C$254 million). The deal was announced back in May. Cash from the [...]

Vancouver, British Columbia-based Heartland Oil and Gas is raising US$12 million through a pair of private placements to fund further development and purchase additional acreage for its Forest City Basin [...]

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) developers in Mexico entered the home stretch this month after the leading contenders for Mexican regaslfication terminals received key permits from the Comision Reguladora de Energia [...]

Opposition legislators in Mexico look likely to make good on threats to mount a constitutional challenge to multiple service contracts (MSC), a means by which oil company Pemex hopes to [...]

Pemex has published tender notices to develop natural gas in the Burgos Basin through multiple-service contracts (MSC). The long-awaited tenders are for the development, infrastructure and maintenance of non-associated gas [...]

Mexican regulatory agency Comision Reguladora de Energia (CRE) is preparing new regulations covering offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification plants, which are almost certainly designed with Baja California in mind. [...]

Slowly but surely, Mexican natural gas imports are becoming more sensitive to US gas pricing. That's important because as more gas flows between the two countries, Mexican gas purchases will [...]