Canada’s $4 Billion LNG Project Facing Another Legal Challenge

SEATTLE (Oil Monster): Steelhead LNG, a Vancouver-based developer in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) arena, is mounting one more legal challenge against an LNG project on Canada’s West Coast. Legal proceedings are underway against Pembina Pipeline Corporation and ARC Resources in connection with a floating LNG (FLNG) solution for this development.

After Steelhead LNG accused Cedar LNG and Samsung Heavy Industries of infringing its Korean patents a few months ago and set the patent infringement litigation in motion in Korea to seek a halt to the construction of FLNG facilities, damages for the alleged unauthorized use of its patents, and an injunction prohibiting further infringement, the company has now initiated new legal proceedings against Cedar LNG, Pembina Pipeline Corporation, and ARC Resources in British Columbia.

The new lawsuit filing alleges that each of the defendants “willfully and improperly exploited information” supplied by Steelhead LNG to ARC Resources regarding the development of liquefied natural gas facilities in British Columbia for the benefit of Cedar LNG.

Therefore, the lawsuit seeks to suspend ARC Resources’ participation in the Cedar LNG project, secure damages from the defendants for the reportedly unauthorized use and exploitation of Steelhead LNG’s information, and an injunction to prevent further wrongful acts.

Courtesy: www.offshore-energy.biz