Offshore LNG news

CII and Synergy have been awarded a Pre-FEED contract by INPEX Corporation for the SURF and GEP facilities of the Abadi LNG Project in Indonesia.

Santos has announced progress on the FEED phase of the Barossa offshore project and awarded three major engineering contracts.

Australian LNG operator Woodside has awarded TechnipFMC a contract to upgrade the Pluto LNG water handling module.

Aqualis Offshore has completed the jacket installation engineering of an 1800t steel jacket structure offshore Bahrain as part of the Bahrain LNG Import Terminal.

Woodside Petroleum has outlined plans to expand and accelerate its Scarborough gas project off northwestern Australia.

Noble Energy Inc. has executed a HoA establishing the framework for development of natural gas from the Alen field located offshore Equatorial Guinea.

The sale will see Santos exiting from Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Bangladesh.

The multi-sector industry coalition, which advocates the adoption of LNG as a marine fuel, argues that Norway’s unilateral domestic CO2 tax on LNG fuel is ‘significantly unhelpful’ and is likely to increase emissions.

The field is located in the Barents Sea, north of the Arctic Circle and will be developed with an FPSO and subsea installation with 30 wells.

The Merakes field, estimated to hold about 2 trillion ft3 of lean gas in place, is located in 1500 m water depth offshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia.