ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, recently won an order worth $58 million to provide complete power and propulsion systems for six new LNG (liquefied natural gas) transport vessels to be built by Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) at its shipyard in South Korea. The order was booke
Transmission links to 2.8 GW of offshore windfarms to be put out to competitive tender Winning tenders for the first links will be announced in summer 2011 First tender round for £1.1 billion of links attracted almost £4 billion of investment appetite and delivered savings of around £350 million Ofg
Incat has secured a contract to build the world’s first high speed passenger Ro-Ro ship powered by environmentally friendly Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Incat Chairman Robert Clifford says “this is a significant step forward as the use of natural gas powered ships must replace ships with less enviro
MEO Australia Limited advises that as at 06:00 hours (Perth time) on Wednesday 17th November, the Songa Venus semi-submersible drilling rig had been towed a distance of 181.7 nautical miles or 28.1% of the 646.7 nautical mile journey to the Artemis-1 location. Assuming the average speed achieved on
CB&I announced today that CB&I Lummus has been awarded a contract for the front-end engineering & design (FEED) services for the Shtokman LNG storage and loading facility at the sea port in Terriberka in the Murmansk region of the Russian Federation. The sea port is part of the Shtokman Gas-Condensa
Worldwide industrial services and engineered products company Harsco Corporation announced today that its Harsco Industrial group has received two significant new orders totaling more than $27 million, including one that marks the successful expansion of its air-cooled heat exchangers business into
Jeffrey P. Beale, President of CH·IV International, is pleased to announce that CH·IV International, in association with the Galway Group LP, will provide support to Bangladesh’s state-owned Petrobangla in acquiring firm LNG supply and design and construction of the country’s first LNG import termin
El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P. today announced that it has agreed to acquire the remaining 49-percent interests in both Southern LNG Company, L.L.C. (SLNG) and El Paso Elba Express Company, L.L.C. (Elba Express) as well as an additional 15-percent interest in Southern Natural Gas Company (SNG) from
MEO Australia Limited advises that the Songa Venus semi-submersible drilling rig was handed over from Shell at 5pm (Perth time) on Sunday 14th November and is currently under tight tow to the Artemis-1 location. The journey is programmed to take approximately eight days at current tow speed, however
BG Group and partners have today awarded Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts for eight hulls for the Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels that will be used in the full field development of the discoveries on blocks BM-S-11 and BM-S-9 in the Santos Basin, o
To strengthen the capital structure and to further secure the capital structure targets DONG Energy A/S announces its intention to issue, subject to market conditions, new callable subordinated capital securities due 3010. At the same time DONG Energy hereby announces an invitation to all holders of
Eaglewood Energy Inc. is pleased to announce today that, together with Eaglewood’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Eaglewood Energy (BVI) Limited, it has signed a farmout agreement with Talisman Energy Niugini Limited with respect to the Ubuntu prospect on its PPL 259 license in the forelands of PNG. Under
Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. announced today that its subsidiary, Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC, has signed a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) with ENN Energy Trading Co., Ltd. , under which ENN Energy Trading intends to contract 1.5 million tonnes per annum (“mtpa”) of bi-directional LNG proce
Origin Energy advises that the Tarapunga-1 exploration well, that spudded on 5 November 2010, continues drilling operations as planned. The well is being drilled vertically using the semi-submersible drilling rig Kan Tan IV which is being managed for Origin by Australian Drilling Associates (ADA). D