LNG

Thailand’s energy exploration and production company PTTEP, a shareholder in Mozambique LNG, has announced a second successive natural gas discovery at a field in Malaysian waters offshore Sarawak as the nation also aims to expand LNG imports because of growing power and industrial demand.

PTTEP of Thailand, the oil and gas producer and a shareholder in LNG projects offshore Malaysia and Mozambique, remained confident of moving forward with its 2020 business plan under the current challenges, underpinned by Gulf of Thailand natural gas resources.

Exmar, the Belgian shipping and projects company with more than 40 vessels in its fleet and now mostly focused on the liquefied petroleum gas business and LNG shipment management, said the Bank of China had finally released financing for the “Tango FLNG” production barge deployed in Argentina while the vessel itself was earning income as it liquefied shale gas from the Vaca Meurta Basin.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his wife have attended the naming ceremony near the port of Busan in South Korea of the second liquefied natural gas production vessel being built for Malaysia’s state-backed energy company Petronas.

Thailand PTT, the nation’s oil and gas company, said it was seeking to become a regional trader of liquefied natural gas and to increase small-scale LNG distribution in southeast Asia with the help of its current LNG import terminal and a second facility under development.

PTTEP of Thailand, the oil and gas producer and LNG stakeholder in Mozambique and Malaysia, reported a first-half jump in net profits and in revenues amid higher prices and volumes as it advanced with a strategy of expanding its project portfolio.

Murphy Oil, the US company whose Rotan natural gas discovery offshore Malaysia is the subject of a floating LNG joint venture, said it completed the sale of its Malaysian assets for more than $2 billion to Thailand state energy company PTT Exploration and Production.

Murphy Oil, the US exploration and production company whose Rotan natural gas discovery offshore Malaysia is the subject of a floating LNG joint venture, has sold its Malaysian assets for more than $2 billion to Thailand state energy company PTT Exploration and Production.

Murphy Oil, the US exploration and production company whose Rotan natural gas discovery offshore Malaysia is the subject of a floating LNG joint venture with state energy company Petronas, said the FLNG project was high on its investment plans as it reported its fourth-quarter results.

Murphy Oil, the US exploration and production company whose Rotan natural gas discovery offshore Malaysia is the subject of a floating LNG joint venture with state energy company Petronas, has returned a third-quarter profit after posting a loss in the same three months of 2017.