Norway’s prime minister Erna Solberg will perform the official opening of the Johan Sverdrup field centre on Tuesday, and the Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Sylvi Listhaug, will also attend the opening.
Dutch contractor Fugro has lost its arbitration with Singapore’s Tasik Toba Subsea related to an early termination of a six-year charter for the Southern Star vessel. As a result, Fugro has been ordered to pay $26.8 million to Tasik.
The Gate liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the Dutch port of Rotterdam has closed the year 2019 with a record number of ship operations.
Shipping services group Clarksons completed the first LNG freight futures trades on CME between commodity traders Vitol and Trafigura at the end of December 2019.
Flex LNG, the company controlled by billionaire John Fredriksen and an emerging player in the LNG shipping business, saw another one of its newbuilds hit the water at the South Korean Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard.
Polarcus, a Dubai-based seismic contractor, has recorded a decrease in its vessel utilization during the fourth quarter of 2019. The vessel activity also decreased on a full year basis from 87 percent in 2018 to 79 percent in 2019. Quarterly vessel utilization was at 71 percent compared to 96 percen
Nigeria LNG makes Train 7 FID Nigeria LNG has made the final investment decision (FID) for its Train 7 project, which will increase the NLNG facility’s production capacity by 35 percent. BW LNG: BW Magna FSRU modification complete BW LNG, a unit of the Singapore-based gas shipping giant BW Group, sa
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The WindFloat Atlantic offshore wind project in Portugal has begun producing power. The project’s first MHI Vestas 8.4MW turbine began generating power after being connected on 31 December 2019. “The commissioning of the WindFloat Atlantic project demonstrates the maturity and commercial readiness o
The Nordic energy company Gasum noted that the Finnish gas market has opened up to the competition and the wholesale of gas and transmission network has been unbundled from each other 1 of January 2020.
The structure comprises a floating platform developed by Principle Power and an MHI Vestas 8.4MW turbine, the largest wind turbine ever installed on a floating structure.
