France’s fourth liquefied natural gas import terminal in the port of Dunkirk is expected to begin commercial operations by the end of the year.
British oil major BP has informed that the oil spill near the Clair platform west of Shetland has dispersed and can no longer be seen at the sea surface. To remind, oil in water was released to the sea from the Clair platform, 75 kilometers west of Shetland Islands, on Sunday morning. BP shut the pr
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said that the focus group formed in 2014 with ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Zeebrugge has been expanded.
Eagle LNG Partners have joined the industry-wide coalition named SEALNG that has been formed to accelerate the use of liquefied natural gas as a marine fuel.
Activities at Lithuania’s first LNG import facility in the port of Klaipeda have been temporally suspended due to dredging works in the southern part of the port. The dredging works aim to clean the ground of the bottom, remove sand deposits and to ensure safe depth for LNG carriers. This is the sec
Independent exploration and production company Caelus Energy Alaska reported on Tuesday it has made a ‘significant’ light oil discovery on its Smith Bay state leases, off Alaska. The discovery is located at the Smith Bay which is about 150 miles west of Prudhoe Bay, about 90 miles east of Barrow. It
Russian and Indonesian oil companies Rosneft and Pertamina have signed an agreement for cooperation in offshore fields development. Under the signed memorandum of understanding, Pertamina will take a stake in the Northern Tip of the Chayvo field, off the coast of Sakhalin, in the Russian Far East. P
The US Coast Guard has set port condition X-Ray for a number of ports in Florida and port condition Whiskey for one South Carolina’s port in response to Hurricane Matthew, which is currently located in the Caribbean sea and moving towards the US East Coast. Effective October 4, 2016, the USCG set po
LNG exports from the three liquefaction plants located on Curtis Island off Gladstone reached 12.2 million mt during the fiscal year 2015-2016, according to the data from the Gladstone Ports Corporation. Shell’s Queensland Curtis LNG project began exporting in January last year, Santos GLNG and the
Danish oil company Maersk Oil has given away its stake in the Dvalin field, formerly known as Zidane, located offshore Norway, to its partners in the project. Earlier this week, DEA, the field operator, submitted the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) for the field to the Ministry of Petroleum
By Tatiana Bautzer and Marta Nogueira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Petróleo Brasileiro SA and Norway’s Statoil ASA are expanding a partnership to help the Brazilian state-controlled company arrest declining production at aging wells in the offshore Campos Basin, two people with direct knowledge of the
CGG on Wednesday announced the start of a large broadband 3D multi-client survey in the pre-salt area of the deepwater Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. Santos VII (Saturno) is the third phase in CGG’s pre-salt project known as the Santos Basin Trilogy. The project is designed to make ultramodern seism
French transport engineering company, OCTRA, has been contracted to supply the construction barges as well as associated equipment and skilled staff for the first building phase of the Floatgen project. The company will also work on the full float out of the 5,000-tonne caisson. OCTRA is supporting
Natural gas deliveries through the Nord Stream gas pipeline from January to October, 2016, totaled 32 billion cubic meters, an increase of 13 percent compared to the same period in 2015.
