Daily Digest: January 27th, 2020

Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has delivered the world's first LNG dual-fuelled shuttle tanker to Norway’s Teekay Offshore, it said last week.

Qatar has rejected India's request for a lower LNG price, the energy minister Saad Sherida al-Kaabi told reporters.

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Italian Eni has signed a new long-term contract with Nigeria LNG, whereby it will take 1.5mn metric tons/yr from the plant which it co-owns with 10.4%. Eni and the UAE's Sharjah National Oil Corporation (Snoc) have struck gas and condensate with an onshore well in Sharjah's Area B, the operator Snoc said. 

Germany risks a shortage in capacity over the coming few years as the major legislated reductions in coal, lignite and nuclear capacity take effect.

French LNG imports surged to a 10-year high in 2019, up 87% yr/yr, transmission system operator GRTgaz said on January 24.

Poland’s PGNiG increased its LNG purchases by more than a quarter in 2019, the company said in a statement, in order to cover a 9.8% growth in its overall import needs.

Finnish tech group Wartsila has been selected to provide key equipment for three LNG-fuelled coastal roll-on, lift-off vessels under construction in China’s WuHu shipyard, it said in a statement on January 24.

New Jersey governor Phil Murphy unveiled an energy master plan that promises to reach a goal of 100% clean energy in the state by 2050 – a target that will include slashing natural gas use by 75%. 

Cheniere Energy said it had produced and shipped its 1,000^th cargo of LNG on January 26th, the fastest any global producer had reached that mark. The 1,000 cargoes were produced at both of Cheniere's US terminals, Sabine Pass in Louisiana and Corpus Christi in Texas.