Exports of liquefied natural gas from the LNG Canada plant were more than one million metric tons in April, Reuters reports, based on data from the monitoring firm LSEG data. All the LNG went to Asia, with about half going to South Korea. One cargo went to China when on April 24, the tanker Qingcheng […]
Iran’s missile strikes damaged 17 per cent of Qatar’s LNG capacity, forcing a complete shutdown at Ras Laffan, the world’s largest LNG facility, Saad al-Kaabi, the CEO of QatarEnergy CEO says. That accounts for 12.8 million metric tons of LNG that is no longer available to Qatar’s mostly Asian customers. “I never in my wildest […]
Energy media organizations, mostly based in Houston, Texas, report that LNG Canada is working to increase production as the war with Iran strangles international energy shipping. The information is based on figures from the financial analysts including LSEG which provides of financial markets infrastructure and delivers financial data, analytics, news and index products to 44,000+ […]
In 2011, J. P. Morgan Chase, Jeffery Epstein’s bank, tipped him and others about future LNG development in Kitimat, US Justice Dept files reveal. The Justice Department’s wide ranging release of files on convicted sex predator Jeffrey Epstein has yielded a surprising footnote, the first hints of liquefied natural gas development in Kitimat. Epstein was […]
The LNG Canada flare spiked at 260 million standard cubic feet per day or about 7,362,380 cubic metres per day during production problems with Train 2 during October, satellite data obtained by Northwest Coast Energy News can reveal. That is much higher than the expected 11,000 cubic metres per day for normal plant operations and […]
Two companies plan to construct the first primary aluminum plant to be built in the United States in almost 50 years, the companies said on Monday, adding once complete, the smelter in Inola, Oklahoma will be the largest ever primary aluminum production plant in the U.S. When the smelter in Oklahoma is completed by 2030, […]
Most historians and archaeologists believe that the First Peoples to arrive in North America came down the West Coast on what they now call the “kelp highway.” The review paper “The First Americans” was published this week in the prestigious journal Science. Evidence from archaeological sites from the British Columbia coast to the southern tip […]
Scientists have identified a new species of a strange marine mammal group that lived on the Pacific Coast between 33 million years ago and 10 million years ago. The new specimens -- from at least four individuals -- were recovered from Unalaska, in theAleutians. The Desmostylians, unlike other marine mammals species alive today -- such […]
Ninety-seven years ago, long before the main townsite was founded in the 1950s, (the Haisla Nation, of course, had been here for thousands of years) Kitimat was to play a short, now forgotten and unlucky role in the First World War with the launch of a vessel in New Westminster called the War Kitimat as […]
Chevron will not be making a final investment decision on the Kitimat LNG project in 2015, Pat Yarrington, the company's vice president and chief financial officer told the first quarter earnings conference call Friday, May 1. All FIDs for Chevron projects around the world, with one exception, are on hold for this year Yarrington said. […]