Drydocks World and Dubai Maritime City (DMC), the leading provider of services to the shipping, maritime, oil, gas & energy sector is supporting the “Green Economy for Sustainable Development” initiative launched by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of UAE and Ruler of Dubai. As
DNV GL is launching a new Recommended Practice (RP) on LNG Bunkering in the Middle East & South Asia. The launch in Doha is in conjunction with Qatar’s announcement that it is going to establish a strategy of supplying LNG as a marine fuel in Qatar and the other countries forming the Gulf Cooperatio
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Global LNG Regasification Industry Outlook Report (Q2 2014) – Analysis of Trade, Infrastructure, Competition, Investments and New Opportunities to 2020” report to their offering. Global LNG Industry is poised to grow steadily despite fluctuatio
LNG player Woodside said that it has advised the participants in the Leviathan Joint Venture that it has elected to terminate the memorandum of understanding agreed by the parties in February 2014. Negotiations between the parties failed to reach a commercially acceptable outcome that would have all
LNG player BG Group does not expect more than one or two LNG cargoes out of Egypt in 2014, the company’s Chairman Andrew Gould said on Thursday. Gould also said he did not expect BG to make any significant progress in its talks with Egypt on higher prices for gas which Egypt is diverting to its dome
Fugro has been awarded a contract for one year, plus a year extension option, by Basrah Gas Company for the provision of Geotechnical Investigations and Topographic Services in the Basrah province of Southern Iraq. Fugro will provide geotechnical and topographical survey investigation services at va
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Iran has made huge investment in Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project and has met its obligations in this project. He noted that Iran is interested in developing relations with neighboring countries, particularly Pakistan. The Iranian president expressed hope that
On May 14, 2014, Delek Group’s gas partnerships received a copy of a petition which includes a request for a temporary injunction. The petition was filed by the Association for Sustainable Economics against the Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Water Resources, the Petroleum Commissio
Dana Gas, the Middle East’s largest regional private sector natural gas company, announced its financial results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2014. The company reported a 67% rise in operating profits in 1Q 2014 to US$ 45 million (AED 164 million) as compared to US$ 27 million (AED 98 millio
The first team of 120 RasGas leaders recently completed a high level international leadership and management skills training programme conducted by Thunderbird School of Global Management. The team included supervisors, section heads and managers from different departments of RasGas. “As a company c
The WilPride LNG tanker, with a capacity of 156,000 cubic meters, is expected to arrive at Belgium’s Zeebrugge LNG terminal from Qatar on May 23, according to port data. Fluxys of Belgium, the operator of the Zeebrugge LNG terminal, said that 37 LNG carriers unloaded at Zeebrugge in 2013, compared w
Höegh LNG (HLNG ) said that it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Egyptian Natural Gas (Egas) for the use of one of its FSRUs under construction at Hyundai Heavy Industries as an LNG import terminal in the port of Ain Sokhna, located on the Red Sea’s Gulf of Suez. The FSRU will be moored at a
The Gas Exporting Countries Forum participated in the 19th International Oil, Gas, Refining, and Petrochemical Exhibition of Iran at Tehran Permanent International Fair Ground. The 19th International Oil, Gas, Refining, and Petrochemical Exhibition of Iran (Iran Oil Show 2014) opened in Tehran on Tu
The Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC) and Shell signed a six-year LNG import deal worth about $12 billion. KPC also plans to ink a $3 billion LNG supply deal with BP on Monday, Reuters reported, citing Nasser al-Mudaf, head of KPC’s international marketing division as saying. Surging air conditioning dema
