Former Statoil CEO Helge Lund has officially started his new role as CEO and executive director at BG Group - a month ahead of his planned start date. Andrew Gould, who has been serving as interim Executive Chairman of BG Group since April 2014…
JGC Corp awarded ABB a US$50 million contract to supply the electrical system for one of the world’s first commercial floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facilities, and the second to be owned by Malaysian oil and gas company Petronas, the PFLNG2…
Belgium’s Exmar announced in its quarterly report that operator Pacific Rubiales Energy will delay start-up for the Caribbean FLNG project offshore Colombia, which was to be the first operational FLNG facility. Exmar said that Pacific…
As a result of recent offshore successes in Mozambique and Tanzania, the entire East Africa margin currently has the attention of the world’s new ventures teams, explorers and gas (LNG) buyers. What might happen next in this new hydrocarbon province…
Area 4 is the jewel in Italian explorer Eni’s African crown. Meg Chesshyre reports on the company’s plans to get its large gas discoveries off Mozambique to market. Map of Mozambique. From EIA. Mozambique’s…
Wärtsilä’s 6-cylinder Wärtsilä 34DF dual-fuel (DF) engines will be integrated into three large new escort tugs, with a customized gas storage and supply system, contracted by Norwegian operator Østensjø Rederi. The equipment is expected…
Ennsub completed the design, manufacture, testing and installation of bespoke sealing systems for the Wheatstone liquefied natural gas (LNG) platform off Australia. The company designed two different systems to provide an external and internal sealing system for 64-off 8 in…
Russia’s Gazprom announced plans to build a new LNG plant on the Baltic Sea on Thursday (22 January). The project, called Baltic LNG, will be built at Ust-Luga, in the Leningrad region, near the Gulf of Finland. It will be capable of producing 10 MPTA of LNG…
Chevron’s Australian subsidiaries signed a binding sales and purchase agreement (SPA) with SK LNG Trading (SK), in which SK will receive 4.15 million-tonne of liquefied natural gas (LNG) over a five-year period starting in 2017. Gorgon LNG site…
Schnitger President Monica Schnitger urged oil and gas companies to explore and exploit the latest technologies to have successful projects at the 2014 Bentley Systems Year in Infrastructure conference. Meg Chesshyre has more. “I’m…
Woodside Energy and Adani Enterprises signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to identify, investigate and develop potential business arrangements and commercial initiatives in India’s LNG market. “India is an important emerging LNG…
Siem Offshore recently accepted delivery of its newbuild dual fuel PSV Siem Symphony from Hellesøy Verft Shipyard in Norway. The vessel is now at work in the Norwegian offshore market. Built to Wärtsilä’s VS 4411 DF design, Siem Symphony can be powered by either LNG or marine diesel oil…
GlobalData’s Adrian Lara sheds light on the kinds of deepwater projects expected to advance while the price of oil continues to fall. Engineers from Jumbo Maritime deliver 25 MOF caissons for the…
Golar LNG awarded Keppel Shipyard a US$705 million contract for the conversion of a second Moss liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, the GIMI, into a floating liquefaction vessel (FLNGV) for Golar’s subsidiary Golar Gimi. Image of Keppel Shipyard…
BG Group started loading the first cargo of LNG from its Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) facility this week on the Methane Rita Andrea tri-fuel diesel electric (TFDE) LNG carrier. The Methane Rita Andrea…
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