Project & Tenders
Gazprom signs LNG agreements with Japanese partners
Russian giant Gazprom signed a number of agreements with Japanese partners during the visit of Alexey Miller, the company’s head, to Japan.
Hurricane finds oil at Lincoln well
UK-based oil and gas company Hurricane Energy has completed the drilling and logging phase of the Lincoln well, located west of the Shetland Islands, after making an oil discovery. Hurricane started drilling the Lincoln well on November 8, 2016, with the Transocean Spitsbergen semi-sub drilling rig.
DSME to build FSRU for Maran Gas
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering has secured an order to build a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) for Maran Gas Maritime, a unit of Greece’s Angelicoussis Shipping Group. Under the deal signed on Friday, DSME is to build a 173,400-cbm FSRU for Maran Gas. The cont
BP joins Kosmos to develop West Africa LNG export project
Kosmos Energy formed ties with BP through a US$916 million farm-out of assets in the Mauritania-Senegal basin.
KBR wins global engineering services contracts from BP
Houston-based LNG engineer, KBR, has been selected to provide conceptual engineering services and pre-FEED and FEED engineering services across a range of BP’s projects.
Top News of the Week, 12 – 18 December 2016
Oil & Gas Giant to Build Dutch Borssele III & IV Offshore Wind Farms The Dutch government announced that a consortium of Shell, Van Oord, Eneco and Mitsubishi / DGE won the second Borssele tender. Following the announcement, the consortium revealed that the preferred supplier for the wind turbines i
EMAS AMC Fails “Lewek Inspector” Charter Obligations
Forland Subsea informed that EMAS AMC AS has defaulted on charter payment for the LCV/IMR subsea vessel “Lewek Inspector” due to financial distress. According to Forland, the company is behind on the payment for the month of October 2016, due November 30, 2016 and is ‘unable to settle the outstandin
Aibel Scoops Snorre A FEED Study
Aibel has been awarded FEED study for modifications on Snorre A in connection with Snorre Expansion. The contract also has an option for the actual implementation phase. The Snorre field is to be developed further with a subsea solution to increase recovery. The production is to be hooked up to Snor
EMAS AMC Asks for Short Standstill of “Lewek Connector” Charter
EMAS AMC AS, a subsidiary of EMAS Chiyoda Subsea, has requested Ocean Yield to enter into a short-term standstill agreement relating to the bareboat charter of the vessel Lewek Connector for the months of December 2016 and January 2017. The ultra deepwater multipurpose, flex-lay subsea construction
Novatek pens LNG deals with Japanese companies
LNG terminal developer, Novatek, signed memorandums of understanding with two Japanese companies to cooperate on LNG projects in Russia.
Nature Energy joins in on Danish LNG partnership
Nature Energy on Friday informed it has joined a group of companies in an LNG liquefaction plant project to be established at the port of Frederikshavn, Denmark, in 2018.
Höegh LNG secures FSRU deal in Pakistan
Höegh LNG signed a 20-year FSRU contract with Global Energy Infrastructure Limited for its LNG import project in Port Qasim near Karachi, Pakistan.
Mitsubishi, Gazprom strengthening ties
Mitsubishi Corporation signed an agreement of strategic cooperation with Russia’s Gazprom aimed at providing a framework for strengthening the ties between the two companies.
Novatek agrees Acrtic LNG 2 cooperation with Marubeni
Yamal LNG operator, Novatek, signed a memorandum of understanding with Marubeni Corporation to pursue opportunities of cooperation on the Arctic LNG 2 project.