In this issue

 

Plans for Aphrodite gas field passed to Cypriot Government for formal approval 
Free ReadLNG News Editor:  Seatrium Limited of Singapore, formerly Sembcorp Marine Ltd and the Dutch family-owned dredging and shipping company Van Oord, marked the successful completion and delivery of the “Vox…
Golar LNG Ltd, the shipping company now specialising in a small but growing fleet of floating LNG project vessels, reported first-quarter net losses as it maintained “strong engagement with prospective…
LNG News Editor:  TC Energy Corp., the North American natural gas and energy pipelines company, has received permission from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to bring a pipeline expansion…
Free ReadChart Industries Inc., the liquefied natural gas equipment-maker and industrial gas technology company, has signed an accord with US company Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) aimed at providing full carbon-capture solutions…
Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI), the leading US pipeline feed-gas company for liquefied natural gas plants and a key energy infrastructure developer, has announced plans to expand the working gas storage…
LNG News Editor:  Chevron Corp. has agreed to acquire Nasdaq-listed PDC Energy in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.3 billion and boosting the US major’s holdings in US strategic basins…
LNG News Editor:  Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT), the French LNG storage technology company, and South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries have received an approval from UK maritime classification society Lloyd’s Register…
Free ReadLNG News Editor:  Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, whose subsidiary supplied the first floating LNG terminal for the Philippines, is also involved in the latest supply deal for the Malampaya…
Tuesday, 06 June 2023
Japan’s biggest liquefied natural gas importer, JERA Co. Inc., has named James Tinsley as Chief Commercial Officer of the JERA Americas subsidiary based in Houston in Texas as the Japanese…
Empire Energy Group Ltd, the small Australian exploration and production company, saw its shares rise after a regulatory breakthrough in the onshore Beetaloo Basin of the Northern Territory and since…
Free ReadLNG News Editor:  Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), India’s leading energy producer that is set to bring onstream a new gas field in June in the Krishna Godavari Basin…
Gazprom, the natural gas supplier hit by Western sanctions over the Ukraine invasion, saw its shares drop on the Moscow stock exchange after the board said the company would not…
Historic suppliers join forces to make LNG reality and bring clean energy supplies to City 

News Nudges

OLT Offshore expansion

OLT Offshore LNG Toscana, the company that owns the floating LNG import terminal off the port of Livorno, has received authorization to increase its annual regasification capacity from the current 3.75 billion cubic metres to about 5 Bcm per year. “Thanks to the decree issued on May 26 OLT will be able to receive up to 122 small-scale LNG carriers per year to carry out the small-scale LNG supply service,” said the company.


Woodside contract awards

Woodside Energy, the Australian operator of the North West Shelf and Pluto LNG export projects, has completed the award of all major contracts for the decommissioning of subsea infrastructure at the Enfield, Griffin, Stybarrow and Echo Yodel oil and gas fields offshore Western Australia. The upcoming work will follow successful decommissioning activities which have been underway at the Enfield and Balnaves fields. “Specialist contractors engaged to undertake activities during the subsea decommissioning campaign include TechnipFMC, Heerema, McDermott, Fugro, DOF and McMahon.


CNOOC reaches out

China National Offshore Oil Corp., the Chinese major and LNG importer, has moved to improve its relationships with Western and domestic institutional investors and analysts by holding a series of meetings. “The purpose of this activity is to strengthen the communication between the company and institutional investors and to enhance institutional understanding of the company and the industry,” said CNOOC. The company said it hosted Chinese and Western investment banks over the past week at its Shenzhen offices and at project sites.