Top news of the week October 16-21

LNG Canada contracts BAM to build new Rio Tinto wharf

BAM International, together with Canada’s JJM Construction and a U.S. company Manson Construction has been awarded the contract to build the new Rio Tinto Aluminium BC Works wharf on behalf of LNG Canada.

Venture Global LNG brings in cash for liquefaction projects

Venture Global LNG garnered $108.6 million in a private placement bringing the company’s aggregate funding total to $470 million.

MOL takes delivery of world’s largest FSRU

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines of Japan has last week taken the delivery of the world’s largest floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU).

Cheniere commissions Sabine Pass LNG’s Train 4

The US LNG export player, Cheniere, has reached substantial completion of the fourth liquefaction train at the Sabine Pass LNG project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

Guy Elliott steps down from Shell board after Rio Tinto fraud charge

The Hague-based LNG giant Shell said Wednesday that Guy Elliott has stood down as a non-executive director of the company after US regulators charged his former company Rio Tinto with fraud for not coming clean about a coal deal in Africa.

LNG World News Staff