Qatar Petroleum has issued tender invitations for the engineering, procurement and construction of the four liquefied natural gas expansion mega-Trains planned for Ras Laffan as part of the project to liquefy and export an additional 31 million tonnes per annum of LNG.
MAN Diesel and Turbo, the German maker of marine engines and turbomachinery, said it was building a new test facility in South Korea in partnership with Hyundai Heavy Industries that will include improving LNG equipment and dual-fuel engines.
The Kuwaiti authorities have agreed a proposal for pipeline infrastructure to be connected to the onshore LNG import terminal planned for the port of Al-Zour, adding to volumes shipped to the existing floating import facility at Mina Al-Ahmadi.
A South Korean court in Seoul has fined 10 construction companies for conspiring to rig bids for state-backed projects worth more than US$3.1 billion to build liquefied natural gas storage tanks at the nation’s import terminals.