Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. said that it has acquired 127,799 ordinary shares in Dockwise in the course of trading yesterday. All these Shares were acquired through Euronext Amsterdam and were purchased at an average price of EUR 18.50 per Share with a maximum price of EUR 18.50 per Share (which
Alexey Miller, Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee and Sergey Yeroshchenko, Governor of the Irkutsk Region, pointed out that the Irkutsk Region was the area of Gazprom’s strategic interest on a meeting held Wednesday at Gazprom’s headquarters. In the framework of the Eastern Gas Program a lar
Statoil’s fourth quarter 2012 net operating income was NOK 45.8 billion. In 2012, net operating income was NOK 206.6 billion. Statoil delivered equity production of 2,004 mboe per day in 2012, increased by 8% from 1,850 mboe per day in 2011. Adjusted earnings increased by 7% to NOK 193.2 billion in
Total said that it has signed two production sharing contracts (PSCs), for Blocks 10 and 11, with the Republic of Cyprus. The PSCs were awarded as part of the second offshore exploration licensing round, launched by the Cypriot government in 2012. The licenses extend over 2,572 square kilometers and
Belgium’s Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas terminal is expected to receive a cargo of LNG from Qatar onboard the 145,702 cbm Al Thakhira on February 13, according to the Zeebrugge Port Authority. The Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas terminal is situated on a 30ha site in the outer port of Zeebrugge. I
Liquiline has moved into its new head office at Rådal, halfway between downtown Bergen and Bergen Airport Flesland. Liquiline has grown rapidly the last few years, which has resulted in the need for a larger organisation, a dedicated installation and maintenance shop, as well as a larger outside sto
A launching ceremony was held on Tuesday at Drydocks World shipyard for the floating regasification terminal “FSRU Toscana” of OLT Offshore LNG Toscana. The terminal will reach Italy in the second quarter of 2013 and will be located 22 kilometres off the coast between Livorno and Pisa. The terminal
Total said it has entered into exclusive negotiations with a consortium comprising Snam, EDF and GIC that has submitted a firm offer to acquire all outstanding shares of Transport et Infrastructures Gaz France (TIGF). The offer values the company at €2.4 billion. The proposed sale is aligned with To
Liquiline of Norway said that Liquiline Solutions, the company’s engineering and terminal division, has entered into a FEED contract (Front-End Engineering and Design) with a major European ship owner. Liquiline will carry out a complete Front-End Engineering & Design for the ship owner in terms of
Capstone Turbine Corporation uploaded an interesting video showing the Argonon, the first inland barge that runs on liquefied natural gas. Two LNG fueled Capstone C30 microturbines onboard the Argonon Type-C tanker in the Rhine River in Europe, operate in an N+1 setting and serve as the main electri
The Board of Directors of Gazprom elected Dmitry Lyugai as a Member of the Management Committee for a five-year term. At the same time, the Board of Directors terminated the authority of Vlada Rusakova as a Member of the Company’s Management Committee. In December 2012 Dmitry Lyugai was appointed as
There is considerable interest in liquefied natural gas, LNG, in shipping and Swedish industry. This is revealed in a market screening conducted by Swedegas. New, stricter environmental stipulations for maritime fuel in Swedish waters from 2015, coupled with the need in industry to switch from oil,
Ukraine is in talks with Turkey on the possibility of the passage of liquefied natural gas tankers through the Bosphorus Strait. This was stated by Ukraine’s Prime Minister Mykola Azarov during a meeting with the State Department’s Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, Amba
The UK’s imports of natural gas in the latest three months of 2012 were 8.3 per cent lower than a year ago. Exports were less than half at 20.9 TWh for the same three month period, and were at their lowest since 2004, whereas net imports of gas were 28.5 per cent higher. Pipeline imports from [&hell
