African LNG news

Bradley Churchman, RBAC Inc., covers how Africa can become a major player in the global gas market and its potential effect on the market over the next 10 years.

Saipem has been awarded a contract by Eni Congo for the conversion of Scarabeo 5 semisubmersible drilling unit into a separation and boosting plant.

Reuters has reported that Shell will supply Morocco with an annual 0.5 billion m3 of LNG under a 12-year deal.

NNPC Ltd and UTM Offshore Limited have signed a heads of terms agreement for the construction of Nigeria’s first indigenous floating LNG project.

North America is expected to witness the highest small scale LNG liquefaction capacity additions globally during 2023 – 2027, contributing about 32% of the total global small scale LNG liquefaction capacity additions by 2027, forecasts GlobalData.

Angola LNG’s Lobito vessel berthed at Soyo terminal to load the project’s 400th LNG cargo on 13 June 2023.

Bruno Jean Richard Itoua, the Minister of Hydrocarbons of the Republic of Congo, will provide insights on Congo’s gas exploration opportunities during the African Energy Week conference this October.

Priya Bose, MarketsandMarkets, India, outlines how the recent growth in global energy demand has resulted in a significantly larger LNG market.

Congo’s Ministry of Hydrocarbons has signed a co-operation agreement with Technip Energies that will see the parties expand cooperation in the fields of offshore and onshore energy developments.

In the June 2023 issue of LNG Industry, Maximilian Rockall, Michelle Glassman Bock, and Christopher Bloch, Squire Patton Boggs, provide a year-in-review for 2022, and look at what lies ahead in 2023 for LNG.