Qatar Petroleum (QP) said that the company’s new Board of Directors held its first meeting on Sunday at QP headquarters. The meeting was chaired by Mohammed Bin Saleh Al-Sada, Minister of Energy and Industry, and held in the presence of Vice Chairman, Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani, Minister of Economy a
Dana Gas, has secured, through its wholly owned subsidiary Dana Gas Explorations FZE, a US$ 100 million Term Facility for the Zora field development project. This facility will contribute the debt component of the financing needed to complete the project and bring the Zora gas field on-stream.The cr
The construction of Iran Gas Trunkline-9 (IGAT-9) will improve gas delivery in the west of the country and facilitate future gas exports to European countries, managing director of Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company (IGEDC) said. Alireza Gharibi said the 1,800-kilometer pipeline is being s
Iran’s Petroleum Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh has inaugurated the Middle East’s largest gas storage facility in northeastern Iran on Sunday, the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) said in a report. The Shourijeh gas facility can supply 20 million cubic meters of gas per day (MMcm/d) in winter, ac
Emirates Classification Society (TASNEEF) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Drydocks World and Dubai Maritime City (DMC) aiming at providing classification services to the world’s first LNG-powered harbour tug carrying the trade mark “Elemarateyah”. This landmark undertaking, in which th
The UK’s South Hook import terminal will get another cargo of LNG from Qatar on September 12, port data reveals. Cargo is being shipped to the facility that can process 15.6 million tonnes of LNG a year onboard the 266,000 cbm Al Mafyar. This will be the second shipment from Ras Laffan to South Hook
The largest gas storage facility in the Middle East is expected to be inaugurated in Iran soon. According to the report of the public relations of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), Shourijeh gas facility, which can supply 20 million cubic meters of gas per day (MMcm/d) in winter, is to be lau
Noble Energy announced the execution of a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to supply natural gas from the Leviathan field, offshore Israel, to the National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) of Jordan. Under terms of the LOI, Noble Energy and the Leviathan partners will supply a base gross quantity of
RasGas Company Limited said that Train 1 of its historic Barzan Gas Project (BGP) is more than 95 per cent complete and is rapidly ramping up for the first production of clean-burning natural gas in the first quarter of 2015. Construction work on Train 2 is also progressing well with expectations to
Saudi Arabia’s state-run Saudi Aramco attracted the interest of four companies to work on unconventional gas in the country. According to the sources South Korea’s GS Engineering and Construction, Italy’s Maire Tecnimont, Japan’s JGC and SNC-Lavalin of Canada were all interested companies. Aramco pl
Iran will supply 20 mcm/d of gas to Oman as per the recent agreement reached between the two countries. As Times of Oman reports, Tehran and Muscat will need 2.5 to 3 years to complete the required infrastructure. It is also reported that NIGC is looking at different aspects of the issue including s
Delek Group published results for the three and six month period ended June 30, 2014. Group revenues for the first six months of 2014 were approximately NIS 10 billion, at a similar level to that of the same period last year. Operating profit was NIS 338 million in the first six months of 2014 compa
National Iranian Gas Company said that the country’s volume of gas exports hit more than 10 billion cubic meters (bcm) over the past year. According to the report of the public relations of the NIGC, statistics also show that gas processing capacity of the country has gone up by more than 1.5 bcm du
The Al Ghuwairiya LNG tanker, with a 263,000 cubic metres capacity, is due to arrive in the UK’s South Hook terminal from Qatar on September 1, port data reveals. This will be the first LNG carrier to dock at the import terminal in the month of September. The South Hook terminal can process 15.6 mil
