Singapore’s offshore marine services provider PACC Offshore Services Holdings Ltd. (“POSH”) has been awarded a contract to support Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility using its semi-submersible accommodation vessel the “POSH Arcadia”. According to POSH, which won the contract wit
Petronas’ first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit named PFLNG SATU has reached its destination at the Kanowit gas field, 180 kilometers offshore Sarawak. The Malaysian oil giant informed through social media channels on Wednesday that, after a 2,120 nautical mile journey, the PFLNG1 unit ar
Alam Maritim Resources has received a letter of award from Malaysia’s state-owned oil company Petronas for a subcontract work on the company’s first FLNG unit, the PFLNG-1. Alam Maritim was awarded the subcontract for the supply of miscellaneous marine spreads for Petronas’ first floating liquefied
Malaysian energy giant Petronas has informed that its first floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, PFLNG SATU has set sail to the Kanowit gas field, offshore Sarawak, “making its historic 2,120 nautical mile journey to Malaysia on 14 May 2016.” At 365-meter-long and with a dry weight of 132,
HiLoad LNG, a subsidiary of Sevan Marine, and Technip, a French oilfield services provider, presented the HiLoad LNG Parallel Loading System (PLS) at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. In a statement on Thursday, Sevan Marine disclosed several characteristics of the new PLS system displa
Malaysian energy giant Petronas has officially launched its second Floating LNG unit, the PFLNG2. The hull was launched at Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje Island, South Korea on April 30, 2016. The 393-meter-long hull was floated out from the Green Dock 3 to anchor at the quayside o
Norwegian offshore facilities designed Sevan Marine will keep on working on a design for a cylindrical Floating LNG unit. The company on Tuesday said, referring to the paid FLNG feasibility study announced in Q3 2015 for the use of Sevan Marine’s cylindrical hull for a specific FLNG development, tha
Oil and gas exploration company Ophir Energy has terminated discussions with Schlumberger regarding the latter’s participation in Fortuna floating LNG project, offshore Equatorial Guinea. The duo in January entered into a non-binding Heads of Terms Agreement whereby Schlumberger would get a 40% econ
Samsung Heavy Industries, one of the world’s largest shipbuilders, has lost a potentially huge order it had for the construction of three FLNG units. Namely, Samsung Heavy Industries had, in joint venture with Technip, won a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the Woodside-operated Brow
ABS, a provider of classification and technical services to the global offshore industry, has granted approval in principle (AIP) to a Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) hull design. Specifically conceptualized for near-shore operations, the vessel was designed with
London-based GE Oil & Gas has informed that it has started production of four high pressure, high temperature (HP/HT) dynamic flexible risers for Shell’s Prelude FLNG. Often dubbed as the world’s largest offshore floating facility, the Prelude floating liquefied natural gas facility will be located
Iran is reportedly in talks with a Norwegian company which would supply a Floating LNG facility, to be used for gas liquefaction in the Persian Gulf. According to Tasnim News Agency, which used the image of Shell’s Prelude FLNG unit to illustrate the story, Iran’s vice president for finance and inve
SapuraKencana GE Oil & Gas Services (SKGE), a joint venture between SapuraKencana Services and GE Power Systems, has been awarded a long-term service agreement by Petronas to provide maintenance services for its two forthcoming floating LNG vessels. A contract exchange ceremony for the award was hel
Following reports that Indonesian government has decided against the floating LNG solution for the development of the Inpex-operated Abadi gas field, the Japanese company is still awaiting the official confirmation. Responding to media reports, in a statement on Thursday, Inpex, developing the gas f
