The final investment decision (FID) has been made for the Porthos CO2 storage project – the first such project in the Netherlands, allowing construction to start next year. Porthos, a joint venture of EBN, Gasunie, and the Port of Rotterdam Authority, will provide transport and storage services to s
Norway’s energy giant Equinor has awarded Ocean Installer with an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for the subsea tie-back of the Eirin gas field in Norwegian waters. The scope covers the installation of structures, flexibles, umbilical, seabed rectification, t
UAE’s integrated gas processing company ADNOC Gas has announced a multi-year liquified natural gas (LNG) supply agreement, valued between $500 million (AED 1.8 billion) and $700 million (AED 2.5 billion), with JERA Global Markets, a trading subsidiary of Japan’s energy major JERA. ADNOC Gas said the
Reach Subsea is set to begin a cable route seabed survey later this month for SSEN Transmission’s HVDC transmission link offshore Scotland. The survey activities will be carried out in the North Sea and Outer Moray Firth for the Spittal to Peterhead HVDC power cable. Survey vessel Viking Reach is ex
Texas-based LNG company Excelerate Energy has signed a ten-year contract with Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras to charter the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Sequoia. Under the agreement, which will commence on January 1, 2024, Excelerate will continue to deploy the
Norwegian equipment provider Kongsberg Maritime has delivered a 23% cut in CO2 emissions on the 121-meter passenger vessel, owned by Hurtigruten, a coastal ship operator and adventure travel company.
The United States has issued an amendment to the license granted to the government of Trinidad and Tobago allowing the joint development of an offshore gas project with Venezuela. Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Stuart R. Young reported that the Office of Foreign Asset
French LNG containment specialist GTT has received, in the third quarter of 2023, two orders for the tank design of three new liquefied natural gas carriers (LNGCs). The company said the first two LNGCs will be built by the South Korean shipyard HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HD HHI), on behalf of a E
APM Terminals Suape, part of Maersk’s port logistics arm APM Terminals, has received approval from Brazil’s National Waterway Transport Agency to change its cargo profile, enabling the terminal to operate containerized cargo and expand the area to be used by the terminal. APM Terminals Suape will op
QatarEnergy and Shell, through their affiliates, have signed two long-term LNG sale and purchase agreements for the supply of LNG from Qatar to the Netherlands. Pursuant to the agreements, up to 3.5 million tons per annum (mtpa) of LNG will be delivered to the Gate LNG terminal in the port of Rotter
Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has broken its quarterly record of operated oil and gas production in the third quarter of this year, reaching 3.98 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day, 7.8% above the previous quarter. Petrobras also reported that it had reached a monthl
Methanol producer and supplier Proman has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation to examine building a low-carbon ammonia facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana. According to Proman, the proposed plant would produce approximately 1.2 million tons per year of clea
Greece’s MYTILINEOS Energy & Metal has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Korean SK E&S to explore means of cooperation in the energy sector. Specifically, under the MoU, the companies agreed to cooperate in the following sectors: To note, MYTILINEOS is already a part of the Asian
The maritime industry must build 80 million gross tonnage (gt) of zero-emission ships each year over the 14-year period from 2027 to 2040 to achieve the indicative checkpoints for 2030 and 2040 developed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in its 2023 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Strategy, acco
