BASF and Pacific NorthWest LNG have concluded a license agreement on the use of BASF’s OASE® technology for the removal of carbon dioxide and sulfur containing components from natural gas for all trains of Pacific NorthWest LNG’s proposed liquefied natural gas facility in the district of Port Edward
AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a Project Management Consultancy services contract by Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA OPCO) for their Umm Lulu Phase-2 full field development projects offshore United Arab Emirates (UAE). The contract is wo
The next meeting of the Hudson River PCBs Site Community Advisory Group (CAG) will be on December 5, 2013 at the Saratoga State Park Administration Building (19 Roosevelt Drive, Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866), Gideon Putnam Room. Meeting Agenda 1:00 Welcome, Introductions, Review September Meeting Sum
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has signed a data licensing agreement with OMV Norge AS worth around USD 4 million for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS’s multi-client data library in the Hoop area in the Barents Sea. In addition, the agreement contains an uplift model whereby EMGS will r
Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering and Lloyd’s Register China have agreed to the joint development of an LNG-fuelled 28,000 deadweight type motor general cargo ship design, built to Lloyd’s Registers requirements, that will meet current and future environmental targets. This new ship design project
Esso Australia, a part of the ExxonMobil Australia group of companies, today announced the start of construction on the new Longford Gas Conditioning Plant at a ground breaking event with The Hon Peter Ryan MLA, Deputy Premier and Scott Rossetti, Mayor of Wellington Shire Council. The plant will p
The 488-metre-long-hull of Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility has been floated out of the dry dock at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) yard in Geoje, South Korea, where the facility is currently under construction. Once complete, Prelude FLNG will be the largest floatin
Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to supply the extended engineering scope for the initial, basic, and production designs for a series of two Container RoRo vessels to be built for US based owner, Crowley Maritime Corporation. The vessels will be powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), and are
A consortium comprising Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (“K” Line), and the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) has announced an agreement with New Delhi–based Petronet LNG Limited for a long-term time charter of a new liquefied natural gas (LNG)
Hamburg-based Hybrid Port Energy, a unit of Becker Marine Systems, has awarded a building contract to Shipbuilding and Machinery of Komárno, Slovakia to build the world’s first LNG Hybrid Barge. In summer 2012 AIDA Cruises and Becker Marine Systems teamed up on a long-term cooperation project to pro
Lankhorst Euronete Brazil (LEB), a subsidiary of WireCo® WorldGroup based in Queimados, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and specializing in the manufacturing of synthetic ropes for the offshore and maritime markets, has entered into a contract with SOFEC, Inc., to provide the complete supply of polyester lin
BW Offshore has signed an extension contract for FPSO Abo with Nigerian Agip Exploration Ltd, a subsidiary of ENI S.p.A., of six months until the end of Q2 2014. The extension has been agreed to secure operational continuity while joint work to detail longer term programs for investment and producti
The Charterer EMGS ASA has today declared the second of the originally 3 x 12 months options for the vessel S/V Boa Thalassa, as per Charter Party dated 13.10.2006. The vessel is therefore on firm contract up to 15th of December 2015, with another 1 x 12 months option remaining. Press Release, Novem
LNG shipper Awilco LNG said that it has signed a charter deal for its 156,000-cbm WilForce carrier with an unidentified oil and gas major. The 2013 built Tri-Fuel-Diesel-Electric (TFDE) vessel has been committed to a three-year contract plus a one-year option. The contract will commence 25 January 2
