Category: Asia

Chevron takes over Kitimat LNG operations from Apache, EOG and Encana

Apache has a new partner in the Kitimat LNG project, Chevron Canada Ltd and, in effect,  Chevron is taking over the project from Apache who has been unable to find customers for the liquified natural gas project in Asia. A news release from Apache announced "a broad agreement with Chevron Canada Limited to build and […]

PetroChina in multi-billion dollar LNG buying spree in Canada and Australia

PetroChina went on a multi-billion dollar natural gas buying spree Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, picking up shares in operations in both Canada and Australia. In Canada, Encana, one of the partners in the Kitimat LNG project, signed a joint venture arrangement with Phoenix Duvernay Gas, a wholly owned subsidiary of PetroChina, to explore and develop Encana's extensive […]

Kitimat LNG progressing--or is it?

At the District of Kitimat Council meeting on Monday, October 1, as part of Mayor Joanne Monaghan's regular "good news" briefing, she told council that the Kitimat LNG  project continues to "progress positively."  The news from Calgary on Tuesday, however, was not as promising. Both Bloomberg News and the Calgary Herald reported that  Apache, which […]

TransCanada to build Shell's "Coastal Gaslink" natural gas pipeline to Kitimat

Shell Canada and its Asian partners have chosen TransCanada Corporation to design, build, own and operate the proposed natural gas pipline to Kitimat, now called the Coastal GasLink project. The estimated $4-billion pipeline will transport natural gas from the Montney gas-producing region near Dawson Creek, in northeastern British Columbia to the proposed natural gas export […]

Anti-Enbridge group adopts Quebec students' "red square" campaign

An anonymous group opposing the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline is calling for a demonstration at the site of an oil and gas export conference in Vancouver on May 30 and 31 and asking participants to wear the red square that has become symbolic of the Quebec student protests first against tuition fee hikes and later […]

Apache expects first LNG cargo from Kitimat in 2016

Apache said Tuesday, May 22, 2012, that it expects the first LNG cargo leave the Kitimat terminal for Asia sometime in 2016, with possible further expansion in the future. Patrick Cassidy, director of Apache's Investor relations division, was making a presentation to the UBS Global Oil and Gas Conference in Houston, Texas, on the company's […]

BC approves Pacific Trails Pipeline amendments

A couple from Vancouver, who refused to give their names, unfurl an anti-Pacific Trails Pipeline banner at the British Columbia legislature in Victoria, Sunday, April 15, 2012. The man said he against all pipelines and that he was supporting the Wet'suwet'en First Nation. About 1,000 people marched through downtown Victoria to oppose the Enbridge Northern […]