By Offshore Energy Today.. Apply Sørco, a Norwegian engineering company, has been awarded an extension by Lundin for the maintenance & modification (M&M) contract on the Edvard Grieg field offshore Norway. Apply informed on Monday it would continue to provide maintenance, modifications and operations support on the Edvard Grieg field, located in PL338 in the…
By Offshore Energy Today.. African Petroleum, an independent oil and gas company, is preparing to launch an arbitration against the government of The Gambia over the A1 and A4 offshore licences. African Petroleum’s problem with these two offshore licenses emerged in July when the government of The Gambia said it had ended talks with the…
By LNG World News Poland’s state-owned gas company PGNiG has bought a cargo of spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Norway’s Statoil. Delivery from Norway will be the second spot supply from this country that will land at Poland’s Lech Kaczyński LNG terminal in Świnoujście. Poland also received two spot deliveries from the USA and…
By LNG World News Finnish shipowner ESL Shipping said that Viikki, claimed to be the first LNG-powered handysize bulk carrier in the world, was launched on August 31 at the Jinling shipyard in Nanjing, China. The 160-meter LNG-powered vessel of 26,000 dwt produces more than 50 percent lower carbon dioxide emissions than vessels of the…
By Offshore Energy Today.. Offshore services provider Emas Offshore has started restructuring process in Singapore and entered into an agreement with potential investors who will put in $50 million into the company as part of its financial restructuring. The restructuring application was filed at the end of August. With this application, Emas Offshore, together with…
By LNG World News Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) of South Korea is in talks to change the delivery dates of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers ordered by a European owner. The extension was requested by the unnamed shipowner, according to a filing to the Korean stock exchange by the shipbuilding giant last…
By Offshore Energy Today.. Danish offshore driller Maersk Drilling has been awarded two contract extensions for its jack-up drilling rigs in the Netherlands and in the UK. In its latest fleet status report published on Monday, Maersk Drilling stated that jack-up Maersk Resolute has been awarded a two-month extension by Petrogas in the Netherlands. The…
By LNG World News Chevron-led Angola LNG, the country’s only liquefied natural gas producer, has entered into a multi-year sales deal with trading house Vitol. Under the agreement, Angola LNG cargoes will be delivered to Vitol at destinations around the world, the producer said in a statement on Friday. “This sales agreement is an important…
By LNG World News Cameron LNG, March 2017 (Image courtesy of the Port of Lake Charles)Construction activities on Sempra Energy’s Cameron LNG export project are expected to resume this week following a week of flooding in Texas and Louisiana due to Hurricane Harvey. CCJV, the joint venture between CB&I and Chiyoda which is Cameron LNG’s…
By Offshore Energy Today.. Norwegian oil company Statoil has received an approval from the country’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for the installation of a new template at the Visund field offshore Norway. Visund is an oil and gas field in blocks 34/8 and 34/7, 22 kilometers north-east of the Gullfaks field in the Tampen…