September 2011
LEAD STORY
After being at the forefront of LNG onshore projects since the industry's inception, French engineering company Technip has stolen a march on most of its rivals by emerging as the biggest winner so far in the race to develop Floating LNG ventures. Its 15-year consortium partnership with Samsung Heavy Industries…
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While base-load LNG plants provide a large quantity of the LNG market, there is an increasing need for small-scale plants to provide LNG for distribution markets. The small-scale LNG industry in the US was initially developed in the 1960-1970 time period and generally consisted of peak-shaving facilities for winter gas…
Although the oil and gas industry has seen floating liquefaction projects and prospects flourishing lately, there are some technical aspects which always raise a lot of questions and doubts. Among them, ship-to-ship offloading systems probably hold the first place. Side-by-side offloading solutions have been developed and used in mild environments…
Det Norske Veritas, the Norwegian classification society, has taken the initiative in a full-scale measurement campaign to study sloshing impact forces in LNG membrane tanks. This is one of several phases in a research program. A Joint Industry Project (JIP) managed by DNV was launched together with BW Gas of…
Instrument air compressors are critical machines in an LNG production plant, and are therefore carefully monitored to ensure optimal uptime. A comprehensive monitoring strategy with advanced measurement techniques can detect incipient faults at an early stage of development for these types of machines, but identification and diagnosis of the fault…
A round-up of the latest news from around the industry.
