Special reports

Niki Thomas, Quorum Business Solutions, USA, explains how to improve the customer experience for LNG operations by streamlining communication between internal and external users.

SCHOTT Eternaloc® terminal headers offer reduced total cost of ownership and peace of mind.

Christian Belting-Clar and Leonid Bleicher, Dresser-Rand business, discuss minimising the loss of BOG in the LNG industry.

Richard Bass, Navigant Consulting Inc., UK, looks at how the East Mediterranean gas market has changed over the last 10 years, with particular focus on Egypt, Israel and Cyprus.

Julien Castres Saint Martin, VINCI Construction Grands Projets, France, and Patrick Genoud, Entrepose Contracting, France, look at the safe delivery of large LNG storage tanks in severe conditions, from Western Australia to Northern Siberia.

Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore Division explains the importance of risk analysis to help overcome the extreme challenges of developing LNG projects in the high Arctic.

Norton Rose Fulbright assesses key industry and geopolitical events that have shaped the current LNG market.

Global Maritime Vryhof and Deep Sea Mooring look at the challenges of mooring and anchoring operations for floating LNG industry projects.

In the current shifting LNG market, there is a trend towards greater short-termism, fed by competition from an increasingly wide variety of supply side participants.

King and Spalding’s Richard Nelson outlines where he considers to be the best LNG demand growth prospects.

Claudio Rodriguez, Enagás, Spain, discusses small scale and LNG bunkering challenges in Southwest Europe.

John White and Robin Mizrahi, Baker Botts LLP, look at five critical issues for LNG to power projects.

Ryan Schleicher, Joran Cove LNG, expects long-term contracts that expire over the next 10 years to be replaced with spot or mid-term contracts.

Mangesh Pantankar, Galway Group, expects deregulation to have a limited impact on long-term LNG demand.

Although the global gas market may be descending into the tunnel of oversupply, Timera Energy suspects that this tunnel is shorter than many people think.