10000 results found for 'prelude turret'

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  • Greece gearing up for offshore exploration revival as ExxonMobil joins Ionian Sea block

    6 November 2025
    Business Developments & Projects

    U.S.-headquartered energy giant ExxonMobil, UK-based oil and gas player Energean, and Greece’s HELLENiQ ENERGY Upstream have signed a farm-in agreement for ExxonMobil’s participation in a concession in the northwestern Ionian Sea.

  • Shell lines up 15-year offtake from ADNOC’s mega LNG project

    4 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has struck a multi-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) offtake deal with Shell International Trading Middle East Limited FZE, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the UK-based Shell, for its low-carbon LNG project, currently under development in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

  • Dubai yard building FPSO turret for Barents Sea field

    20 December 2017
    Equipment, Infrastructure

    Dubai’s Drydocks World will construct parts of the turret mooring system for an FPSO to be deployed at Statoil’s Johan Castberg development in the Barents Sea. The shipyard has received the contract from the Dutch company SBM Offshore. The Johan Castberg FPSO will be permanently moored by the internal turret mooring system at the Johan Castberg […]

  • C40 Cities, IAPH, IFC unveil sustainability-linked loan for ports to tackle ‘critical’ funding gap

    4 November 2025
    Collaboration, Ports & Logistics, Transition

    C40 Cities, a worldwide network of major cities’ mayors working to tackle the climate crisis and halve greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030, has unpacked a global port sustainability-linked loan (SLL) initiative. The endeavor, announced on November 4 at a summit, is supported by the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) and the International […]

  • “Largest” shore power facility installed on River Thames

    31 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    UK’s builder and operator of renewable and shore power systems Net Zero Marine (NZM), in collaboration with towage services provider Svitzer, has installed “the largest shore power facility” on the River Thames.

  • $27 billion fills Shell, BP, TotalEnergies, Eni, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips’ quarterly profit coffers

    17 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Against the backdrop of concerns over hydrocarbon production rates, the European and U.S. oil majors – the UK’s duo Shell and BP, France’s TotalEnergies, Norway’s Equinor, and Italy’s Eni alongside U.S.-based trio: ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips – have secured over $27.14 billion in profits.

  • Appraisal of black gold discovery coming up next year in Gulf of America

    6 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Houston-based energy player Talos Energy is setting the stage to undertake appraisal activities in 2026 at its recent oil discovery in the Gulf of America (U.S. Gulf of Mexico), which was drilled with a drillship owned by Seadrill, an offshore drilling contractor.

  • BP cheers ‘extremely encouraging’ results at Brazilian oil & gas discovery, appraisal on the cards in 2027

    30 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    UK-headquartered energy giant BP is moving forward with the evaluation of its hydrocarbon discovery off the coast of Brazil, with appraisal plans anticipated to be put in motion in 2027.

  • Chart finds work on Sempra’s LNG project in Texas

    13 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Bechtel Energy, an American engineering, procurement, construction, and project management player, has selected compatriot Chart Industries to supply cooling equipment for the second stage of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project that Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of North America’s energy infrastructure company Sempra, is developing in Jefferson County, Texas.

  • HD Hyundai and Siemens ink pact to ‘boost’ innovation in US shipbuilding

    3 November 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration

    South Korea’s shipbuilding heavyweight HD Hyundai and German multinational technology conglomerate Siemens have penned an agreement to speed up the digitalization and modernization of the United States’ vessel construction industry. Under the memorandum of understanding (MoU) that the two companies have signed, HD Hyundai and Siemens will reportedly work to combine digital and automation technologies […]

  • Russia’s Lukoil locks in deal to sell off its international assets as sanctions bite harder

    30 October 2025

    Moscow-headquartered energy giant PJSC Lukoil has said yes to a bid from Switzerland’s Gunvor Group for its international portfolio of assets in the wake of growing global sanctions, which keep tightening their hold on Russian businesses overseas.

  • US firm lands $450 million job for floating LNG terminal in Iraq

    28 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Excelerate Energy, a U.S.-based liquefied natural gas (LNG) company in Texas, has struck a new deal for the construction of a fully integrated floating LNG (FLNG) import terminal in Iraq.

  • Seadrill’s 2011-built rig is hard at work in North Sea with ConocoPhillips

    28 October 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    A 14-year-old jack-up rig, owned by Seadrill, an offshore drilling contractor, is going full speed ahead with drilling operations at an oil field in the North Sea off the coast of Norway.  

  • British Columbia says yes to $1.14 billion LNG storage expansion

    29 October 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    FortisBC has secured the endorsement from the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC), an independent regulatory body regulating BC’s energy utilities, basic automobile insurance rates, and intra-provincial pipeline rates, for the proposed storage expansion of its existing liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility on Canada’s Tilbury Island to safeguard the energy security of British Columbia and strengthen its gas supply chain.

  • Green fuels in focus: NYK bolsters ties with Port of Duqm

    30 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Japanese shipping major Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line) and the Port of Duqm Company (PODC), which oversees port management and terminal operations in Oman, have signed a comprehensive memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on the development and connectivity of the port of Duqm.

  • Equinor and partners looking into Nordics’ first large-scale waste-to-methanol plant

    22 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian energy giant Equinor and NG Nordic-owned Mana have formed an early-stage strategic partnership to explore the potential development of the Nordics’ first large-scale waste-to-methanol project at Mongstad complex, with the support of sustainable technology solutions provider NEXTCHEM.

  • BV to class Møre Sjø’s 2+2 hydrogen-powered cargo ships

    15 October 2025
    Certification & Classification, Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Vessels

    French classification society Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) has entered into a contract with Turkish Gelibolu Shipyard and German technology company eCap Marine for the classification of 2+2 hydrogen-powered cargo vessels to be built for Norwegian shipowner Møre Sjø AS.

  • EU puts its foot down on Russian oil & gas imports with gradual phase-out

    20 October 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    The latest step taken to end the EU’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels is contained within its plans to gradually ban imports of oil, gas, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) from next year, with limited exceptions for existing short-term and long-term contracts. This legislation is described as a response to Russia’s systematic weaponisation of energy supplies.

  • Prelude FLNG turret sets sail for Korea

    15 August 2014
    Vessels

    The largest piece of the turret for Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural Gas (FLNG) facility has set sail from Dubai for the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, South Korea, where the facility is under construction. The turret is part of a mooring system designed to ensure Prelude FLNG can operate safely in the most […]

  • Drydocks World completes Prelude FLNG turret

    6 July 2015
    Vessels

    Dubai’s Drydocks World said it has completed the world’s largest turret mooring system for Shell’s Prelude FLNG. At almost 100 meters high, weighing over 11,000 tons and with a diameter of 26 meters, the turret will ensure the Prelude floating liquefied natural gas  facility can operate safely in the most extreme weather conditions, Drydocks World […]

  • Drydocks World completes Prelude FLNG turret

    6 July 2015
    Vessels

    Dubai’s Drydocks World said it has completed the world’s largest turret mooring system for Shell’s Prelude FLNG. At almost 100 meters high, weighing over 11,000 tons and with a diameter of 26 meters, the turret will ensure the Prelude floating liquefied natural gas  facility can operate safely in the most extreme weather conditions, Drydocks World […]

  • $28 billion US LNG project in the Pelican State clears key regulatory export checkpoint

    22 October 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Venture Global, an American producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) sourced from North American basins, has received the final seal of approval to export up to 3.96 billion cubic feet (bcf) per day of U.S. natural gas as liquefied natural gas (LNG) to non-free trade agreement (FTA) countries from its proposed multibillion-dollar export project in Louisiana, United States. 

  • Drydocks delivers Prelude FLNG turret mooring system

    6 July 2015
    Equipment, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Drydocks World, a Dubai-based company has completed what it claims to be the world’s largest turret mooring system. The system will be installed aboard the world’s largest FLNG unit, Shell’s Prelude. At almost 100 meters high, weighing over 11,000 tons and with a diameter of 26 meters, the turret will ensure the Prelude floating liquefied […]

  • Prelude FLNG’s largest turret piece leaves Dubai

    15 August 2014
    Equipment, Infrastructure

    Designed in Monaco, built in Dubai, shipped to South Korea and for use off Australia, the turret is an example of the truly global nature of this project.

  • Prelude FLNG Turret Steel Cutting Begins (UAE)

    23 May 2012

    UAE-based Drydocks World, the established international player in ship repair, conversion, new building and offshore construction, have announced that Shell’s pioneering Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility – the world’s first – was initiated with a Steel Cutting ceremony of its Turret. It will be the world’s largest turret with more than 90 m […]