Bear Paw Pipeline, a unit of Australia-based LNG Limited, has received Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board approval to construct a 62.5 km natural gas pipeline from Goldboro to the proposed Bear Head LNG export facility in Canada. Bear Paw would interconnect the Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline (M&
LNG engineer Amec Foster Wheeler said Wednesday it has appointed Rod Carr to the newly created position of chief information officer with effect from 2 August. Based in London, UK, and reporting to Jonathan Lewis, CEO of Amec Foster Wheeler, Carr will be a member of the company’s leadership team, Am
French gas and oil major Total said Wednesday it has started production at the Incahuasi gas and condensate field in Bolivia, bringing on stream 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. “Incahuasi is one of the largest gas and condensate fields brought on stream in Bolivia. Incahuasi’s production w
Norway’s offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found several non-conformities and improvement points during the audit of Total’s Martin Linge development, offshore Norway. Total E&P Norge (Total) is the operator of the Martin Linge field, located near the British part of th
The second train at Cheniere’s Sabine pass liquefaction and export plant in Louisiana has started producing liquefied natural gas, according to analytics firm Genscape, that has infrared cameras pointed at the facility. “Genscape’s IR cameras witnessed the methane stacks come online with the increas
Cobalt International Energy has informed it is unlikely that its sale agreement with Sonangol for two blocks offshore Angola will close. The deal, worth $1.75 billion, according to which Sonangol was to acquire all of Cobalt’s 40% participating interest in Blocks 21/09 and 20/11 was made in August 2
The Houston Ship Channel is temporarily closed due to debris removal operations being conducted in the area, the Vessel Transit Service (VTS) for Houston and Galveston reported. Namely, the Captain of the Port (COTP) Houston/Galveston established a Safety Zone extending 500 feet on either side of th
France’s Dunkirk LNG terminal said Tuesday it has postponed its second commissioning cargo after an incident last week which led to the evacuation of the terminal’s workers. The arrival of the second commissioning cargo “initially planned on August 7th, is postponed to the first half of September,”
Three more foreign-flagged vessels were detained in UK ports during July 2016 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection, the country’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said. In addition, four vessels remained under detention from previous months. Vessels detained during the previous mont
Japanese engineering firm JGC Corp is considering building a small liquefied natural gas plant on Russia’s remote Sakhalin island, according to a statement by the Sakhalin region government. The Sakhalin Island is the home of Russia’s only producing LNG plant, Sakhalin-2, with a capacity of about 10
New York-listed GasLog Partners, the master limited partnership focused on owning, operating and acquiring LNG carriers, has on Monday announced a public offering of its common units to raise up to US$53.6 million. GasLog Partners said in a statement it plans to issue 2,750,000 common units at a pri
Construction work on Chevron’s US$29 billion Wheatstone LNG project in Australia is progressing with first cargo still expected in mid-2017. “The Wheatstone drilling campaign is now complete, with all nine development well flowbacks successful. Offshore at the Wheatstone Platform hook-up and commiss
Norwegian oil and gas giant nad LNG operator Statoil has agreed a further sale of non-core assets in its US onshore portfolio, the third in the southern Marcellus in the last two years. In the latest transaction, Statoil will divest some of its non-operated interests in the US state of West Virginia
Europa Oil & Gas has received notification from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (DCCAE) that Phase 1 of Frontier Exploration Licenses (FEL) 2/13 and 3/13 in the South Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland, has been extended by one year. The company said on Tuesday that t
