TechDof Brasil, a Brazilian joint venture between Technip and DOF Subsea, has taken delivery of the pipe-lay support vessel Skandi Açu. The vessel started its 8-year charter contract with Petrobras on Saturday, August 13, and this is the first of 4 PLSVs fixed on long-term charters with Petrobras wh
The Houston-based Cheniere Energy filed a request with FERC to introduce fuel gas and begin commissioning activities for Train 3 at the Sabine Pass liquefaction and export plant in Louisiana.
Nord Stream 2 partners have withdrawn the application with the Polish competition authority to create a joint venture that would construct the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
Russia’s Novatek, operator of the giant Yamal LNG project on Tuesday said it has extended its gas supply deal with steel producer NLMK Group until 2025. Novatek agreed last year to supply NLMK with 2.8 billion cubic meters of natural gas per annum for 5 years starting from the beginning of 2016. The
By Mike Stone and Jens Hack NEW YORK/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – U.S. industrial gas supplier Praxair Inc and German peer Linde AG have held initial talks about a merger to create a market leader with a value of more than $60 billion (46.5 billion pounds), people familiar with the matter said, sending sha
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski last week urged Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director, Abigail Ross Hopper, to preserve all three lease sales proposed for Alaska when it finalizes its offshore program for the years 2017 through 2022. Murkowski’s request came during a face-to-face meeting on
India’s largest importer of liquefied natural gas, Petronet LNG, said that the newly built regasification facilities under the Dahej LNG terminal’s expansion project have been commissioned and are under stabilization.
Two Turkish sailors have been jailed for a total of 42 years in relation to the largest ever seizure of cocaine in the UK made in April 2015 some 100 miles off the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, according to the Crown Prosecution Service. Following a joint operation of UK-based National Crime Age
Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Group, and offshore access systems provider Ampelmann have teamed to develop a marine access solution for the crew transfer market. Offshore Energy Today has interviewed Mr. David Stibbe, working as a Business Development Manager responsible for Marine Access & Oil
By Rania El Gamal and Alex Lawler DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) – OPEC will probably revive talks on freezing oil output levels when it meets non-OPEC nations next month as top exporter Saudi Arabia appears to want higher prices, according to OPEC sources, although Iran, Iraq and Russia present obstacles t
India’s saving on the renegotiated long-term LNG supply deal between the country’s largest importer of the chilled fuel Petronet and Qatar’s RasGas, could amount to US$3 billion according to the prime minister Narendra Modi.
International law firm Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has advised Erste Nordsee-Offshore-Holding GmbH, a joint subsidiary of STRABAG SE and, indirectly, Etanax GmbH, on the legal and tax aspects of the Global Tech II sale to Vattenfall. Malte Jordan, who led WFW’s Hamburg team that advised on the pr
International law firm Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has advised Erste Nordsee-Offshore-Holding GmbH, a joint subsidiary of STRABAG SE and, indirectly, Etanax GmbH, on the legal and tax aspects of the Global Tech II sale to Vattenfall. Malte Jordan, who led WFW’s Hamburg team that advised on the pr
Bangladesh’s Payra Bandar (Payra Port), located at the southern region of Patualhali, was inaugurated and opened for limited operational activities with the arrival of MV Fortune Bird on August 13, 2016. The Fortune Bird transported a shipment of stone from China for Padma Bridge. The port is expect
