(Updated with a comment by United States Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, 24.02. 2016) Cheniere’s Sabine Pass liquefaction and export facility in Louisiana is to ship its first cargo of chilled gas to Brazil on Wednesday. The 160,000 cbm carrier Asia Vision, owned by energy giant Chevron, is fully
Italian energy giant Eni said on Wednesday that the Mozambique government had approved the plan of development for the company’s Coral FLNG project. The approval relates to the first phase of development of 5 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Coral discovery, located in the Area 4 permit. The giant
BioMar recently revealed that in collaboration with NSK Shipping it has placed an order for a new LNG-powered fish feed transportation vessel.
A small-scale floating regasification unit (FRU) was launched on February 21 at Kangnam Shipyard in Busan, Korea, according to Gas Entec. The FRU is a part of a mini LNG import project in Indonesia that will serve the 200 MW power plant in Bali to be operated by PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (PEL). The pro
Royal IHC delivered the trailing suction hopper dredger Mahury to Baggerbedrijf de Boer – Dutch Dredging on February 18, 2016. The 1,840m3 twin-screw TSHD was built at IHC’s partner shipyard, MTG Dolphin, in Varna, Bulgaria. The Mahury was successfully launched on 14 August and named on 29 October 2
Doha-based Qatar Navigation (Milaha) posted a 4 percent rise in its net profit in 2015 to QAR 1.09 billion ($300m).
Brazil’s state-owned Petrobras is reportedly set to receive the first LNG cargo produced at Cheniere’s Sabine Pass liquefaction and export facility in Louisiana.
The 1981-built Ramdane Abane LNG carrier is to deliver a cargo of chilled gas to REN’s Sines LNG import terminal in Portugal on Wednesday. According to shipping data, the 126.132 cbm vessel is currently located near the LNG terminal that lies on Portugal’s Atlantic coast in the industrial area of Si
The Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project said it has completed the installation of 140 kilometres of rigid subsea flowlines.
All American Marine (AAM) has won a contract for the construction of a hydrofoil-assisted survey catamaran for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District. The vessel will primarily perform survey missions and some dive operations in support of dredging work planned within the Corps’ Phi
Peru’s only natural gas liquefaction facility at Pampa Melchorita restarted exports after a pipeline caused a halt in operations recently.
Engineering company McDermott said that its new flagship derrick lay vessel, the DLV 2000, has secured two contracts offshore Western Australia from Woodside and Inpex. The DLV 2000 is expected to join the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project as part of McDermott’s current project schedule by installi
The South Hook liquefied natural gas terminal is scheduled to receive its first cargo in March.
Boskalis’ 4,500 m³ trailing suction hopper dredger Freeway is currently removing silt from the Waterford Estuary shipping channel at the Belview seawards, according to the Port of Waterford. Dumping of the dredged material will take place at an approved site south-west of Hook Head. All vessels, par
