LNG shipping company Nakilat and its shipyard joint ventures, shipbuilder Nakilat Damen Shipyards Qatar (NDSQ) and ship repairer Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM), are showcasing the world-class capabilities of Qatar’s premier shipyard at DIMDEX, the MENA region’s leading maritime defense exh
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Qatar, the world’s largest LNG producer, shipped an LNG cargo from the Ras Laffan Port to Taiwan on Wednesday, shipping data reveals. The cargo is being carried by the 145,800 cbm Simaisma, and it is due to arrive at the Taichung LNG terminal on April 1. Kawasaki Heavy Industries has signed a contra
The Egyptian LNG facilities, located at Idku, comprise two LNG production trains and include the common facilities such as storage tanks, loading jetty and utilities. Egyptian LNG Company owns both the Egyptian LNG site and common facilities. Its sister company, The Egyptian Operating Company for Na
Circle Oil Plc has announced that the 2D seismic survey over its Block 25, offshore Oman, is scheduled to begin tomorrow, March 21. The MV Hindsagar 3D/2D seismic acquisition vessel will be used for the operation. The vessel is owned by Hind Offshore Pvt Ltd. from India. The programme is to acquire
The UK will get a liquefied natural gas cargo from Qatar next week, shipping data says. The Duhail LNG carrier, with a capacity of 210,100 cbm, is due to arrive in the UK’s Milford Haven port, where the South Hook and the Dragon LNG import terminals are located, on March 28. The country will also [&
Kentz Overseas company W.L.L, has opened a new office in Dubai. The office is located in the Gold Tower of the Jumeirah Lakes Towers complex and will have the capacity for 100 engineers. The Middle East has been identified as a key area of strategic focus for Kentz through 2014 and beyond, with part
Iran and Oman signed a Memorandum of Understanding on gas exports to Oman. Iranian minister of petroleum, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh and his Omani counterpart signed the MoU during Iranian president Hassan Rouhani’s visit to Muscat, Iran’s SHANA news agency reported. Speaking to the reporters, Iranian mi
Boxship Yusuf Cepnioglu Runs Aground off Greece The 116m-long Turkish boxship, Yusuf Cepnioglu ran aground on the coast of Mykonos island, the Aegean Sea, Hellenic Coast Guard reported on Saturday, March 8th 2014. VARD Secures Its Largest Single Vessel Order Vard Holdings Limited (VARD) has entered
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McDermott International, Inc. announced that the Dive Support Vessel Thebaud Sea (“DSV”) was recently mobilized for an Emergency Pipeline Repair intervention offshore the United Arab Emirates. This is the third time in recent months that the DSV has been fast-tracked to carry out an emergency respon
Oman LNG said it has achieved 10 Million Man-Hours without a single Lost Time Injury (LTI). Its attainment of 10 Million Man-Hours without LTI notably comes after a year in which it carried out an elaborate shutdown activity on its Train 2—one of three production units—gathering an unusually high nu
Shipping losses continued their downward trend with 94 losses reported worldwide in 2013, coming in below 100 for only the second time in 12 years, according to Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE’s (AGCS) second annual Safety and Shipping Review 2014, which analyzes reported shipping losses of
Qatargas, the largest LNG producer in the world, recently loaded the 2000th LNG cargo from the Common Lean LNG Storage and Loading Asset. The Common Lean LNG storage and loading facilities are built to store LNG produced from the six mega LNG trains at Ras Laffan Industrial City (Qatargas Trains 4,
