Qatargas has achieved another significant safety milestone by completing twelve years of operations on its offshore facilities without a Lost Time Incident (LTI). Comprising nine offshore platforms, the Qatargas Offshore facilities supply gas and condensate to the onshore liquefaction plant at Ras L
World’s largest LNG shipper Nakilat has hosted and chaired the Middle East Regional Forum of the Society of International Gas Tanker and Terminal Operators (SIGTTO). The event took place on Wednesday, 16th April, in Doha, Qatar, and was attended by around 50 delegates from the region and other count
Large wave damages Ensco 8506 rig in Gulf of Mexico The Coast Guard is overseeing response efforts for an offshore drilling rig that began taking on water into a ballast tank after a large wave hit them in heavy seas more than 100 miles south of Galveston. Police raids Petrobras HQ (Brazil) Federa
Stabilis Energy Buys Domestic LNG Business from Encana Stabilis Energy signed a definitive agreement to purchase substantially all of the U.S. based assets of Encana Natural Gas (ENGI). Denver-based ENGI is a leading distributor of LNG fuel to domestic high horsepower engine operators in the oilfiel
Federal Cabinet of Pakistan approved a policy for the import of liquefied natural gas and an LNG terminal would be constructed in Karachi in accordance with the project, according to local media reports. This was announced during today’s federal cabinet meeting in Islamabad under the chairmanship of
Qatargas, the world’s largest LNG producer, has extended its support to the activities of the Qatar Society of Petroleum Engineers (QSPE), the local chapter of the world renowned Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), enabling local petroleum engineering professionals to share knowledge and benefit f
Iranian Petroleum Minister says the country’s natural gas production capacity will climb to one billion cubic meters (bcm) per day in three years’ time. Stressing the extension of gas transmission pipelines and compressor stations in the country, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said that the National Iranian
Salim bin Nasser Al Oufi, Undersecretary at Oman Ministry of Oil and Gas says that discussion is on for importing one trillion cubic feet of natural gas per day from Iran, which is equivalent to one third of the country’s present gas production. Al Aufi said that the agreement is just a Memorandum o
Senior management from N-KOM and Nakilat recently attended the launching and naming ceremony of N-KOM’s Q-Max sized floating dock at Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries in South Korea. 42,000T of fabrication work has been completed for the floating dock named ‘Laffan’, measuring 405m by 66m with a liftin
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov stressed his country’s determination to continue cooperation with Iran and Russia in the energy sector. The president stressed that it is important to ensure supplying gas to the foreign markets in the volumes stipulated by the agreements signed with Iran
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has voiced Tehran’s readiness for broadening oil and gas cooperation with Azerbaijan. In a meeting with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev in Tehran, Rouhani said there are different economic capacities especially in the oil and gas sectors for the two countries to cooperat
The Offshore Support team (Shorebase) of the Offshore Asset Department of RasGas celebrated the completion of a Safety Milestone of 17 years without a Lost Time Incident and 13 years without a Recordable Incident. Hamad Rashid Al Mohannadi, RasGas Chief Executive Officer said: “As a world-class glob
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Oil production from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) plunged 550,000 b/d from February to 29.56 million b/d in March — its lowest level since mid-2011 — according to the latest Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials and analysts. The decline followed February pr
