The Obama administration on Friday gave Freeport LNG approval to broadly export domestically harvested natural gas, marking only the second time a U.S. company has won such a license. The export license ensures that the Texas-based project will be able to liquefy natural gas produced by BP to Japan, Taiwan and other countries that do not have free-trade agreements with the United States.  More »

Liquefied natural gas importers and exporters are turning to floating terminals because of the higher costs of building fixed, land-based facilities  More »

Last month, Earth Day came and went. Perhaps you missed hearing about it. For 2013, the theme was “The Face of Climate Change.” Other than a change in the Post Office cancellation mark on your letters from the usual wavy lines, to the four stick-like wind turbines and a sun symbol, there was little note of what was once an event celebrated by 20 million Americans.  More »

A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking.  More »

Exxon Mobil Corp. and Qatar Petroleum International inked a deal Thursday that sets the stage for a new, $10 billion terminal to export liquefied natural gas from Texas.  More »

Rather than waiting for President Obama’s proposed Energy Security Trust to produce tomorrow’s technology, the federal government should use the tens of billions of dollars it spends today on trucking and delivery services to promote alternative fuel technologies and fleets that currently exist.  More »

The Energy Department is sifting through some 200,000 public comments as it prepares to issue verdicts on energy companies’ applications to broadly export natural gas, a top Obama administration official said Thursday.  More »

A 10-minute wide-screen countdown to the world debut of a video about Technip’s state-of-the-art subsea pipelay vessel – which will be one of the fastest and longest in the world – took on an even more dramatic tone when it was broadcast on a 154-inch by 91-inch display made of up of 16 screens.  More »

Onshore natural gas stole the attention of offshore experts Monday morning at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.  More »

The U.S. is expected to become one of the top exporters of liquefied natural gas in the next five years, with new export facilities becoming the catalyst for a steady stream of shipments to Asia, according to a Moody’s report issued Wednesday.  More »

The shale gale that has put the United States on track to soon be a net exporter of natural gas also is shaking up the international market for the fossil fuel, forcing Trinidad and Tobago to adapt by selling more of its supplies to Europe and Asia.  More »

In response to arguments that exporting U.S. natural gas will hurt manufacturing, Bill Cooper, president of the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, argues that economic studies on the subject show that exports will have minimal effect on the commodity’s domestic price.  More »