LNG

JGC Corp. of Japan has been awarded an engineering contract in the Sultanate of Oman by French major Total for what will be the world’s first liquefied natural gas production plant built specially to supply the shipping fuel market on the Arabian Peninsula.

French energy major Total and the Sultanate of Oman have signed an accord for the development of an onshore natural gas block that will provide feed-gas for liquefied natural gas production reserved for LNG fuel for shipping in the Arabian Peninsula.