LNG

LNG Journal, Africa Editor

After onshore LNG plants and Floating LNG developments, a London-based company, Gasol, and partners including Mustang Engineering of Texas and Teekay Gas Services of Canada are developing near-shore LNG facilities to monetize West African natural gas.

John White, Baker Botts LLP, London

Floating LNG projects have the potential to unlock significant reserves of stranded natural gas - provided challenges to their development, implementation and operation are successfully cleared.

Paul Sullivan, Whessoe Projects Ltd.

Following its recent award of the project management consultancy contract for the Kochi LNG receiving terminal in India, Whessoe Projects Ltd is continuing to ride out the current global downturn with a number of diverse projects around the world.

LNG Journal, Europe Editor

In the last few years the European natural gas market has changed due to the new regulatory framework introduced by the European Union Gas Directives on common rules for the internal market.

That’s as worldwide trade in LNG has increased at a rate of 7.7 percent in 10 years and LNG trade to the EU grew at an even higher rate over the same period of 10.6 percent.

LNG Journal, Asia Editor

South Korea, importer of more than 26 million tonnes of LNG per annum, has been engaged with Japanese companies in increasing the number of LNG cargo swaps to counter high spot cargo prices and plans to increase peak season deliveries.

A round-up of the latest company news and developments

Laurent Poidevin, FMC Technologies

Some call them hoses, some say flexible pipes, we call them rigid pipes and swivel joints, or articulated Loading Arms, but our original solutions both for side-by-side transfer or for stern-to-bow transfer, also called tandem transfer, are among the most flexible to date.

Tor Skogan, Vice President Gas, and Lars Sannes, Senior Project Manager, Moss Maritime, Norway

The Moss spherical LNG containment tank has become synonymous with the LNG industry and the design, safety and operational features of the tank are as relevant now and will be in the future as they were 40 years ago this year when development began.

Graham Lockyer and Steve Labdon, report on the company’s development of equipment, from LNG regasification and reliquefaction to deep-well cargo pumps

With more than 40 years’ experience of designing and manufacturing refrigeration systems, Hamworthy is one of the pioneers in building process systems for LNG carriers.

Simon Allison and Mohamed Movahed, Pöyry Energy Pty Ltd

Flow assurance is making sure fluids from production wells or a production facility arrive at their destination as consistently and cost-effectively as possible, throughout the life of the project.