Shell’s Stuart Bradford, BP’s Al Cook and theNord Stream pipeline project are amongst the leading industry nominations for the inaugural European Gas Conference Awards which will be announced during the event on 25 January in Vienna. The four different categories are: LNG Project of the Year, Pipeli
Belgium’s Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas terminal is expected to receive a cargo of LNG on January 26, according to the Zeebrugge Port Authority website. The Murwab LNG tanker, with a capacity of 210,175 cbm, is sailing from Ras Laffan, Qatar. The Zeebrugge terminal is operated by Fluxys LNG and ha
Sweden’s Stena is considering an order for five LNG tankers, according to several media reports. The order would be worth about $1.2 billion. Stena purchased three LNG tankers from the Taiwan-based shipping company TMT for a total of USD 700 million last year. The three LNG tankers are the “Stena Bl
The LNG Guardian stand-by vessel has been delivered on Thursday, to its Italian owner, Fratelli Neri S.p.A. The LNG Guardian is the third ship to be built for Fratelli Neri at Gondan Shipyard. This is an FRSU support ship that will assist in the regasification terminal which operates at sea, 12 mile
Golar LNG Limited announced that it has executed a time charter for one of its modern LNG carriers, the Golar Arctic, to a major Japanese trading company for a firm period of 3 years. The charter is expected to commence in March 2012 following the end of the vessel’s current charter. The annualised
On Wednesday afternoon, Statoil temporarily shut down production at its LNG plant at Melkøya outside Hammerfest following rupture of a fire water line. The fire water unit is part of the plant’s safety system, and Statoil implemented a controlled production shut down. A water leakage at the rupture
A working meeting between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee was held Wednesday. Alexey Miller informed Dmitry Medvedev on the Company’s operating results of 2011, particularly on gas supplies to the domestic and European markets, execut
Repsol International Finance, B.V. closed a 750 million euro 7 years and 1 month bond at 99.937 per cent, with a coupon of 4.875 per cent equivalent to mid swap + 292 b.p., to be listed on the regulated market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. This bond, guaranteed by Repsol YPF, S.A., is issued und
OAO Novatek today reported preliminary production data for the fourth quarter and full year 2011. Gross production for the fourth quarter totaled 14.53 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 1,063 thousand tons of liquids (gas condensate and crude oil). Gross natural gas production increased by 3.6
Gaz-System S.A. received the 2011 Seahorse Award, the annual business prize awarded by the Szczecin Business Club, for the performance of the LNG Terminal Construction Project in Świnoujście – the largest infrastructure investment in Western Pomerania. The liquefied natural gas off-take and regasifi
The latest annual survey of the global gas industry, 2011’s Natural Gas in the World published by the international association Cedigaz in December, provides a detailed description of the recent evolution in the world’s gas markets. The study focuses on the new dynamics in the global gas industry an
The LNG tanker “LNG Jupiter” has arrived on January 12, 2012 at the Gate terminal to deliver the first LNG to Eneco. Upon arrival, the ship has started to pump its LNG into the storage tanks of the Gate terminal. It is anticipated that the “LNG Jupiter” will leave the Rotterdam port on January 13. [
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has signed a contract to deliver highly efficient engines and propulsion systems for the world’s first Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) powered tugs. The two vessels have been ordered by Norwegian company Buksér og Berging AS and will enter service in late 2013
Cape plc, the international provider of essential, non-mechanical support services to the energy and mineral resources sectors, provided the following scheduled trading update following the financial year end on 31 December 2011. Since the Group’s Interim Management Statement on 9 November 2011, Cap
