Yemen LNG said today that it has restarted normal operations on 23rd May, after pipeline repair. The pipeline was attacked three times since March this year. The 320km pipeline transports around 1.14 billion cubic feet/day from Block 18 in Marib province in northern Yemen to the Total-operated expor
Peru LNG shipped an LNG cargo to Mexico on Tuesday, according to PeruPetro S.A. The cargo is being hauled by the Barcelona Knutsen, a 173,400 cubic-meter tanker, and it is sailing to Mexico’s Manzanillo terminal. The Peru LNG Project includes two parts: an LNG plant with a marine terminal from which
Drydocks World, the established international player in ship repair, conversion, new building and offshore construction, announced that Shell’s pioneering Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility – the world’s first – was initiated with a Steel Cutting ceremony of its Turret, the world
Origin Energy said that Australia Pacific LNG has signed agreements with a syndicate of domestic and international commercial banks and export credit agencies for an US$8.5 billion project finance facility. The project finance facility provides funding for the downstream parts of the project, includ
PGNiG SA executed an agreement on its PLN 4.5bn 5-year domestic bond programme with ING Bank Śląski SA and Bank Polska Kasa Opieki SA. The first bond issue under the programme, for an amount of up to PLN 2bn, is to take place before the end of June 2012. Under the 5-year programme, PGNiG will [&hell
Using LNG as ship fuel promises less emissions and, given the tight circumstances, less fuel costs, according to a new study by GL & MAN -“Costs and benefits of LNG as ship fuel for container vessels.” The attractiveness of LNG as ship fuel compared to scrubber systems is dominated by three paramete
Chaired by Vlada Rusakova, Member of the Management Committee, Head of the Strategic Development Department of Gazprom and Marc Florette, Research and Innovation Director at GDF SUEZ, a regular meeting dedicated to the sci-tech cooperation between Gazprom and GDF SUEZ took place yesterday in France.
Total of France said it is keeping its 25% stake in Shtokman project after Russia’s Gazprom said today that it would review the composition of the consortium to develop the Shtokman offshore gas field next month, Reuters reported, citing Total’s spokeswoman. “The target is to successfully conclude t
San Leon Energy, the fast growing oil and gas company with an extensive portfolio of assets across Europe and North Africa, said that it has been awarded the Praszka exploration concession, by the Polish Ministry of Environment, in the Southern Permian/SW Carboniferous Basin of Poland. The Praszka C
Wood Group said that Mary Shafer-Malicki will join the company as a non-executive director on 1 June and will also join the Board”s Nomination and Audit Committees. Mary worked for Amoco and BP for 17 years, latterly a Senior Vice President and CEO for BP Angola, with previous appointments in Vietna
Mr. Aloke Kumar Banerjee has taken over as Director (Finance) of ONGC subsequent to his Presidential appointment to the coveted post. With this, Mr. A K Banerjee formally takes over the operational responsibility of the role from CMD Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva who in the absence of a full-time Director has
Repsol YPF SA’s Canaport terminal in Canada is due to get one liquefied natural gas cargo from Trinidad and Tobago on May 25, according to shipping data. The cargo is being hauled by the Madrid Spirit, a 135,423 m3 tanker, which departed from Trinidad’s Point Fortin LNG terminal on May 20. Canaport
The PNG LNG Project onshore pipeline has reached a significant milestone, with 50% of the LNG gas pipeline now welded. Welding of the pipeline began in April 2011, and since then the progress has been rapid, despite challenging weather conditions and terrain. “As we have increased our understanding
Laing O’Rourke, in partnership with global LNG tank specialist Kawasaki Heavy Industries, has been awarded the Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC) contract to deliver a network of four massive cryogenic tanks for the $34 billion Ichthys LNG Project at Blaydin Point, Darwin. JKC Australia LNG Pty Ltd ha
