South & Central Asia
Boskalis-Van Oord Joint Venture Continues with the Pluit City Project
Boskalis-Van Oord joint venture has been busy for the last couple of months with the creation of an artificial island in the bay of Jakarta, Indonesia. Trailing suction hopper dredgers began the works in late September, and are now dredging the sand that is being used for this massive reclamation pr
Subsea in January
Subsea World News has gathered all the highlights to bring you a summarized version of the most popular articles from the previous month. The year started off with mixed feelings about where the subsea industry will be heading in 2016. The companies continue to adjust to new market conditions as the
Prosafe expands flotel fleet
Prosafe, the world’s largest provider of offshore accommodation rigs, has taken delivery of the new flotel. The flotel named Safe Notos, has been delivered to the company by the China-based Cosco shipyard. The Safe Notos, able to accommodate 500 workers, will be deployed on an eight-month firm contr
Sakhalin Energy says LNG repair work to last until March
Sakhalin Energy, the operator of Russia’s LNG plant in Prigorodnoye, said Friday that the repair and recovery work related to a technical “glitch” that occurred on January 26 will last until March. The Sakhalin-2 project reported production problems last week at its 9.6 mtpa LNG export facility afte
Jiangdong Shipyard Delivers North Star Bulker
The fifth in a series of eight Handysize 35,000 dwt bulk carriers, being built at Chinese Jiangdong Shipyard, has been delivered to an undisclosed owner. The newbuild vessel, named M/V North Star, was delivered to the owner following the bulker’s sea trials. M/V North Star departed the shipyard on F
EIA: China’s annual LNG imports down for first time since 2006
Chinese imports of LNG declined by 1.1% year-on-year in 2015 for the first time since the country began importing chilled gas in 2006, the U.S. EIA said in a report on Thursday. LNG World News previously reported that China’s imports dropped to 19.63 million tonnes in 2015. Chinese LNG imports have
SGX sees LNG screen trading next year
Singapore Exchange said in a report on Thursday it expects screen trading of liquefied natural gas to start in 2017 once liquidity builds. SGX, which recently revealed the first trade of the new SGX FOB Singapore SLInG LNG derivatives contract, said this in a white paper published on Thursday on the
Ship Owners Still Prefer South Asian Shipbreaking Practices
Ignoring industry leaders and human rights and environmental organisations, ship owners continue to profit from dangerous and dirty shipbreaking practices on South Asian beaches in 2015, according to new data released by the NGO Shipbreaking Platform. According to the Platform, 768 large ocean-going
SapuraKencana, GE get Petronas FLNG deal
Malaysian oilfield services provider SapuraKencana has through its joint venture with GE Oil and Gas won a contract to work on Petronas’ Floating units – PFLNG 1 and PFLNG 2. The company named SapuraKencana GE Oil & Gas Services Sdn Bhd will be responsible for a comprehensive maintenance of GE-suppl
Total inks LNG deal with China’s ENN
French gas and oil giant Total said Thursday it has signed a deal to supply liquefied natural gas to China’s privately-owned ENN Group. Under the deal, Total will supply ENN with 0.5 million tonnes per year of LNG for a period of 10 years. The deliveries will be sourced from Total’s global LNG portf
Aje FPSO en route to Nigeria. First oil expected in March
Panoro Energy, an independent exploration and production company, has informed that the floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) for the Aje field, is on its way to its location offshore Nigeria. To remind, the Aje Field Development Plan was approved in March 2014 and the Final Inve
Swiber Delivers Installation Project Off South America
Swiber Holdings has completed a multi-million dollar platform and subsea pipeline installation project in South America. The project, awarded in September 2013, by an oil and gas company in South America, was for the jacket and topside installation of a wellhead platform and its 24” and 4” pipelines