Stefan Chapman, Euro Petroleum Consultants, UK, and Andrey Kosulnikov, Euro Petroleum Consultants, Russia & CIS, give an overview of the increasingly central roles played by shale and LNG in the gas and petroleum industry, focusing particularly on Europe.
KBR is to perform pre-FEED for Statoil’s LNG facility in Tanzania. Statoil is currently examining the viability of such a venture and the project is expected to be completed during 2013.
Pekka Paasivaara, GL Noble Denton, Germany, discusses the rise of unconventional gas and its potential impact on world energy markets.
GE Oil & Gas has been contracted to supply compressor train technology for Asia’s first Floating LNG facility, located off the coast of Malaysia.
AGRI LNG Project Company SRL has awarded Penspen Ltd the contract for conducting the feasibility study for the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania-Hungary Natural Gas Interconnector Project.
Cyril Widdershoven, TNO, the Netherlands, explains how changes in domestic demand for natural gas in the Middle East could impact upon global supply.
The Center for LNG has praised a call from Western US lawmakers for a quicker LNG export application approval process
Gazprom Group and Summa Group have agreed to develop the global market for LNG as a bunker fuel for marine vessels.
Qatargas has delivered commissioning cargo to China National Oil Corporation’s Zhejiang LNG Terminal in China. The cargo was delivered by Qatargas’s Q-Max LNG vessel, ZARGA.
Chevron Corp. has confirmed the discovery of gas in the Satyr-2 exploration well in the Carnarvon Basin.
Inpex Corp. has awarded Technip a €210 million offshore commissioning contract for the offshore FPSO unit and central processing unit.
Cheniere Energy has filed a an application with FERC for authorisation to build the Corpus Christi LNG terminal.
Höegh LNG has won the contract to build an FSRU in Quintero Bay, Chile, from Colbún S.A. and AES Gener S.A. The FSRU will be used to supply the client’s power plants.
RasGas’ computer network has been hit by a computer virus, just two weeks after Saudi Aramco. LNG production remains unaffected.
Peter Kiernan, Energy Analyst, the Economist Intelligence Unit, discusses the role of Australia’s booming LNG export sector in the golden age for gas.