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State-run Petronas subsidiary Petronas LNG 9 Sdn. Bhd. (PL9SB) has
started commercial operations of the ninth LNG liquefaction train at the
Petronas LNG Complex (PLC) in in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia.

State-run Petronas subsidiary Petronas LNG 9 Sdn. Bhd. (PL9SB) has
started commercial operations of the ninth LNG liquefaction train at the
Petronas LNG Complex (PLC) in in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia.

LNG from the US cannot compete with supplies from Atlantic LNG (ALNG), says Nigel Darlow, ALNG’s chief executive officer. Speaking this week at the Trinidad and Tobago Energy Chamber’s annual energy conference in Port of Spain, Darlow noted that much was made of the US becoming an LNG exporter and its potential impact on ALNG, but said the US plants were simply noncompetitive.

Sydney and Port Moresby-based Oil Search Ltd. has relinquished its interest in the Taza production-sharing contract in the Kurdistan section of Iraq. The company also is close to completion of the sale of its interest in Block 7 onshore Yemen to Sydney…

The government of Papua New Guinea has deployed about 300 armed troops into Hela province in the Southern Highlands to contain and stop gun violence near the ExxonMobil Corp.-led PNG-LNG project.

Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC) and affiliates of ExxonMobil Corp., BP PLC, and ConocoPhillips Co. concluded preliminary work that will allow them to assume responsibility for the natural gas export project’s technical and regulatory activities, the joint venture announced last week in Anchorage.

Brisbane-based Armour Energy Ltd. has executed a gas sales agreement with the Origin Energy Ltd.-led Australia Pacific LNG group for the supply of 1.8 petajoules of gas from Armour’s Kincora Roma Shelf gas project in the Surat basin of southeast Queensland to APLNG’s LNG plant on Curtis Island near Gladstone over a minimum of 5 years.

Total SA has agreed to buy 23% of Tellurian Investments Inc. at $5.85/share for $207 million.

Malaysia’s Petronas reported the start of LNG production from its first floating LNG (FLNG) facility offshore Sarawak.

The US Department of Energy has approved Magnolia LNG LLC’s application to export LNG to countries that do not have a free-trade agreement with the US, DOE’s Fossil Energy Office said in a Dec. 6 Federal Register notice.