Technip has been awarded a large subsea installation contract by Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd for the Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility moored some 200 kilometers off the north west coast of Australia, in the Browse Basin, at a water depth of approximately 240 meters. T
Taiwan’s Yung-An LNG terminal is due to receive a cargo of liquefied natural gas from Nigeria on July 15, according to Kaohsiung Port Authority. The LNG Ondo tanker, with a capacity of 148,478 cbm, is sailing from Nigeria’s Bonny LNG terminal The Yung-An terminal is Taiwan’s first liquefied natural
Chelyabinsk hosted a joint meeting of Gazprom and the Pipe Producers Association. The Company’s delegation was led by Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee. It was noted at the meeting that Gazprom’s high demands enabled domestic pipe plants to upgrade the production capacitie
On the 23rd of June, first gas from the $334 million Seth development commenced approximately 18 months from project sanction, which is 15 weeks ahead of schedule. Seth field is located 60km offshore in the Ras El Bar concession in the East Nile Delta Mediterranean, close to existing producing Ha’py
Steel cutting has commenced on the LNG vessel Hull Number S-1911 at the STX Offshore & Shipbuilding yard in Jinhae, South Korea. This vessel, together with her sistership Hull Number S-1910 which was started this May, were ordered by SCF Group (Sovcomflot) last year for a long-term time charter with
PETRONAS, the Malaysian national oil and gas company, and Progress Energy Resources announced that PETRONAS’ Canadian subsidiary, PETRONAS Carigali Canada, and Progress have entered into an agreement for the purchase by PETRONAS Canada of all of Progress’ outstanding common shares at a cash price of
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, recently won an order worth $80 million from Samsung Heavy Industries to supply energy efficient drives, motors and electrical power systems for five drilling vessels and two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers to be built at Samsung’s shipyar
Solbus in partnership with GAZPROM Germania, a Berlin-based daughter company of GAZPROM, and Polish municipal transport companies organized a series of demo-runs of LNG buses during April and May. Two Solbus LNG buses have made over 12 thousand kilometers when servicing regular lines in the host cit
Queensland gas companies have now signed more than 2600 access agreements with landholders according to quarterly data released by the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) today. APPEA Chief Operating Officer Eastern Region, Rick Wilkinson, told the Brisbane Mining Clu
LNG player BG Group of UK today announced with the Republic of Kazakhstan and the other contracting companies in the giant Karachaganak gas-condensate field in north-west Kazakhstan, completion of their agreement which was initially signed on 14 December 2011. Under the terms of the agreement the Re
Karoon Gas Australia Ltd announced that at 06:00 hours (WST) today, final function testing of the Blowout Preventers (BOP) on the sea floor is currently being undertaken, with the expectation of drilling ahead with the 8 ½” hole later today. Since the last report, the BOPs and marine riser were run
Petrobras said that its average domestic and foreign oil and natural gas output in May was 2,601,223 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), up 1.9% on the figure for April. Fields in Brazil produced an average 2,350,476 boed, a rise of 2% on the previous month’s output. Foreign output stood at 25
Santos of Australia today announced that US$2.5 billion of GLNG upstream capital expenditure will be brought forward from the post-2015 period. The revised estimated capital cost is US$18.5 billion to the end of 2015. Santos’ net 30% share of the estimated increase is US$750 million. This brought fo
Liquefied Natural Gas Limited announced that the Company has been issued its second and final Certificate of Invention Patent from the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China. The Company now has Patents in China to protect its two primary inventions being: – A Method an
