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October 01, 2024
Kazakhstan is in talks with China about increasing gas exports and is even considering building an additional pipeline to boost flows, underscoring the growing significance of its role in the region’s fuel market.
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October 01, 2024
OLT Offshore LNG Toscana announced that the extraordinary maintenance activities of the FSRU Toscana terminal have been successfully completed.
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September 30, 2024
The FEED contract scope of work includes the modular design of a greenfield LNG production facility in Afungi, all associated gas pre-treatment units and the utilities and offsite systems to support the LNG production. The plant will have an overall production capacity of 18 million tons per annum. The scope of work also includes the engineering, procurement and construction proposal.
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September 25, 2024
The plant design will feature electric-driven LNG trains instead of gas turbines, reducing greenhouse gases emissions compared to conventional LNG projects. It will also include prefabricated and standardized modules to be assembled at the project site in Mozambique, offering cost competitiveness and certainty in delivery schedule.
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September 18, 2024
Lance is among several CEOs looking to utilize North America’s gas reserves, of which the head of ConocoPhillips says is “substantial.” Lance went as far as to predict “a century” of available resources.
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September 17, 2024
The permitting halt, which went into effect earlier this year, will raise energy costs, threaten supplies for America’s European allies and increase emissions by slowing the transition from coal to gas, Chevron CEO Mike Wirth said in a speech at the GasTech conference in Houston Tuesday.
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September 16, 2024
Wind Challenger will help reduce fuel consumption and GHG emissions by using its unique telescopic sails. In addition to the robust design of Wind Challenger itself, additional safety measures include a fully enclosed navigation bridge and a lookout station on the vessel’s fore deck to further enhance visibility.
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September 12, 2024
ADNOC has signed a long-term Heads of Agreement with IndianOil for 1 million metric tonnes per annum of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its Ruwais LNG project in Abu Dhabi.
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September 08, 2024
The plant, located in offshore Akwa Ibom state in the oil-rich Niger Delta, is expected to be commissioned in 2028, with first gas a year later. It will produce LNG, petroleum gas and condensate.
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September 04, 2024
The U.S. Energy Department granted a five-year license Tuesday to Wes Edens’ company New Fortress Energy Inc., which is developing the small-scale LNG export plant known as Fast LNG offshore near Altamira, Mexico. The approval is key for U.S. LNG export developers to sell LNG globally to countries in Europe, Japan and China.
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September 02, 2024
Shell will sell Turkey’s state-owned Botas the equivalent of around 4 Bcmg per year starting in 2027, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said at a signing ceremony in Ankara. That’s about 8% of the country’s total gas demand in 2023, data from the national energy regulator show.
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August 26, 2024
Qatar, which is already Kuwait’s biggest supplier with an existing contract running to 2035 to supply as much as 3 MMtpa, will start shipments from the new deal in January.
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August 23, 2024
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on seven liquefied natural gas carriers linked to Russia, including vessels believed to have loaded at its newest export facility in the Arctic region.
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August 19, 2024
The Scarborough Energy Project has all primary environmental approvals in place, and offshore work is progressing well. The Federal Court proceedings sought an injunction to stop offshore activities for the Scarborough Energy Project. The parties have agreed to seek orders from the Court to dismiss the proceedings.
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August 16, 2024
A second liquefied natural gas tanker left an export terminal in northern Russia that’s subject to U.S. sanctions, ship-tracking data show.
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August 15, 2024
Avance Gas holding Ltd., whose largest shareholder is Norwegian shipping billionaire John Fredriksen, said it has agreed to sell its entire fleet of very large gas carrying ships to BW LPG Ltd.
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August 12, 2024
To tap some of these new consumers, parent company ADNOC is building a new plant at Ruwais that will more than double the UAE’s LNG export capacity when it starts operating in 2028. Oman and Qatar are also expanding their LNG production facilities.
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August 07, 2024
Wood will use its specialist CO2 and blue hydrogen expertise to design the integrated blue hydrogen and ammonia production facility, marine facilities including ammonia storage, 200 kilometre pipeline and CO2 injection facility.
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August 07, 2024
The D.C. Circuit court ruling is a setback for the company, which inked a preliminary deal with Saudi energy giant Aramco to buy the super-chilled fuel from an expansion at the South Texas plant known as Rio Grande LNG.
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August 06, 2024
Galp has agreed to purchase approximately 0.5 MMtpa of LNG for 20 years from Cheniere Marketing on a free-on-board basis for a purchase price indexed to the Henry Hub price, plus a fixed liquefaction fee.
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August 04, 2024
The companies agreed other contractors could finish work on Golden Pass last month, paving the way for a restart after several setbacks this year. The new schedule means the 18 million-metric-ton-a-year facility, one of the country’s biggest, will begin operations about six months later than the previous plan, Exxon Chief Financial Officer Kathy Mikells said during an interview.
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