Natural gas news

The GLNG joint venture has been announced by the Queensland Government as the preferred tenderer for two new exploration areas.

MODEC, Inc. has announced that it has signed a contract with ConocoPhillips Australia Barossa Pty Ltd to supply a floating production storage and offloading vessel for the Barossa field, offshore Australia.

Renergen has commissioned South Africa’s first commercial LNG and liquid helium plant.

Wood Mackenzie has released a statement, commenting on the recent news that BP, Kosmos and SMHPM have made a major gas discovery with the Orca-1 well, drilled just south of the BirAllah discovery, offshore Mauritania.

Kosmos Energy has announced that the Orca-1 exploration well has made a major gas discovery offshore Mauritania in the BirAllah area.

McDermott International Inc. has announced that it has been awarded a sizeable fabrication subcontract for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim natural gas project.

Qilak LNG Inc. has signed a Heads of Agreement with ExxonMobil Alaska Production Inc. regarding the potential supply of natural gas from the Point Thomson field to Qilak LNG’s proposed Alaska North Slope LNG export project.

According to Reuters, during the 2018 – 2019 financial year, Egypt exported 172.8 billion ft3 of LNG from its Idku plant across 45 shipments.

According to Reuters, Shell is planning to sell its onshore upstream assets in Egypt’s Western Desert in order to help expand its Egyptian offshore gas exploration.

Nigeria National Petroleum Corp. has signed a multi-billion pre-payment agreement with Nigeria LNG.