A new report from the International Gas Union finds that increased use of natural gas in power generation, heating and transport can significantly reduce air pollution.
Beach Energy of Australia on Wednesday said it has made changes to its senior executive team following a recent organizational review.
Nigeria’s Ministry of Petroleum Resources has given its consent to a wholly owned subsidiary of Lekoil Nigeria, Mayfair Assets and Trust Limited, for the 17.14% economic interest in OPL 310 off Nigeria which contains the Ogo discovery. Lekoil Limited holds 90% of the economic interests in its subsid
US president-elect Donald Trump said that among his first actions as president will be cutting some restrictions on the country’s booming shale gas industry. In a brief video released Monday, Trump said he plans to withdraw from the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal and ditch energy regulations p
Petronet LNG, India’s largest importer of the chilled fuel intends to focus on ships and vehicles fueled by liquefied natural gas to push the demand up.
Following a report by the Australian energy company Karoon on Monday regarding a court order to Petrobras to stop the sale of its interest in Baúna and Tartaruga Verde fields off Brazil, Petrobras has said it intends to fight the order. Petrobras said later on Monday it became aware of the existence
The Georgia Ports Authority’s (GPA) Port of Savannah achieved its busiest October ever for loaded containers, moving 251,566 TEU container units during the month. In October 2016, the GPA’s container throughput rose 2.4 percent, when compared to 245,690 TEUs recorded in the same period last year. Fo
Spanish companies Renfe, Gas Natural Fenosa and Enagás started preparing the first pilot test for LNG-fueled locomotives in Europe, in order to verify the feasibility of a solution.
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit against the Federal Railroad Administration to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, for refusing to disclose information of the first U.S. rail shipment of LNG.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are proposing strategies that include deploying zero and near-zero emission trucks and cargo-handling equipment and expanding programs that reduce ship emissions for the next version of San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP). Ports officials met on N
Canadian Port of Halifax has begun a master planning exercise to prepare for the arrival of “ultra-class” container ships of over 10,000 TEUs. WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff Engineering Services, a port development consultancy firm, has been hired to lead the master planning exercise, according to the por
Spot sales at the PNG LNG project are steadily increasing as the ExxonMobil-operated US$19 billion project is continuing to produce above its nameplate capacity, co-owner Oil Search said on Monday. Papua New Guinea’s first LNG export project delivered 89 cargoes in total since it came onstream in Ap
Norwegian offshore vessel operator Havila Shipping has decided to lay up two PSVs and one anchor handler, and lay off around 70 employees. The vessel owner informed in an Oslo Stock Exchange filing on Tuesday that, as a consequence of the market conditions, the company has decided to lay up two plat
The last jacket foundations manufactured by Bladt Industries for the Wikinger offshore wind farm are now on their way to the offshore wind farm site in the German sector of the Baltic Sea, following a load-out last Thursday. The four-legged jackets weigh approximately 650 tonnes and have a footprint
