BMT ARGOSS (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, has recently completed a comprehensive evaluation of meteorological and oceanographic environmental conditions for the Martin Linge field in the Norwegian sector of the northern North Sea. BMT’s assessment also included the installation routes of associat
Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) has signed six agreements with domestic companies and contractors. The first agreement was for drilling four wells in Phase 1 of the giant offshore South Pars gas field for 140 million dollars. It was signed with the National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC). The drill
VIDEO: Ulstein’s Stinger Handling System to Enhance Pipe-Lay Ops Norway’s Ulstein is currently customizing their innovative Chain type Stinger Handling system concept for three different companies on three different continents. The compact system improves both the vessel design and pipe-lay operatio
GE Presents Its LNG in a Box System, USA GE Oil & Gas introduced the LNG In A Box system, a small-scale, plug-and-play, re-deployable liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling solution based on proven technology that can help accelerate the use of natural gas as a cost-effective, cleaner transportation fu
Iran wil export gas to Iraq by summer, managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), Javad Owji announced. Speaking on the sideline of the 18th International Oil, Gas, Refining and Petrochemical Exhibition, he said that Iran would start by exporting 25 million cubic meters of natural
GDF SUEZ, together with its partners, has fully commissioned 3,217 MW of power generation capacity in the Middle East during the last month after three gas-fired power plants, Barka 3 and Sohar 2 in Oman as well as Riyadh PP11 in Saudi Arabia, reached commercial operation on schedule. The Group is t
Lebanon yesterday announced results of the pre-qualification phase for the 1st License Round which will be held on April 30, 2013. Out of 52 companies, from 25 different countries all around the world, which sent their applications, 46 have qualified. The ministry has also announced that out of 16 c
Asia Offshore Drilling Limited has taken delivery of the jack-up drilling rig “AOD II” from Singapore’s Keppel shipyard. The ‘AOD II’ will now be mobilised to the Middle East to begin its drilling contract with Saudi Aramco. The contract, which is expected to start by end of June this year, has a mi
Qatargas plans to shut Train 3 in May for maintenance, Reuters reported, citing the company’s spokesman as saying. “Train 3 will be shut for routine maintenance next month. This is nothing extraordinary, just a bit of spring cleaning,” he said. Qatargas is the largest LNG producer in the world, with
Qatargas has completed eleven years of operations on its offshore facilities without a Lost Time Accident (LTA) – a significant milestone demonstrating the company’s outstanding safety performance. Comprising nine offshore platforms, the Qatargas Offshore facilities supply gas and condensate to the
The unprecedented global growth of natural gas is changing the energy climate, creating ripple effects that are shifting the geopolitical relationships between the U.S., Middle East, Russia, Japan and China, a panel of global LNG lawyers from Baker Botts said Wednesday. “The advent of shale and othe
Atkins has been selected to provide safety engineering services to Shell under a new Enterprise Framework Agreement (EFA). The contract, which began in January and is set to run for four years, will position Atkins to provide technical and safety engineering services to Shell’s onshore and offshore
Qatargas has completed eleven years of operations on its offshore facilities without a Lost Time Accident (LTA) – a significant milestone demonstrating the company’s outstanding safety performance. This outstanding performance across the entire offshore facilities and operations is the result of the
Saudi Aramco announced the first phase production start-up at the Manifa field commenced on April 10th, 3 months ahead of schedule and well under the program’s approved budget. The Manifa field’s production capacity is expected to reach 500,000 bpd by July 2013, and is planned to reach its full desi
