Image courtesy of Flex LNG Flex LNG, the company controlled by billionaire John Fredriksen and an emerging player in the LNG shipping business, has extended the time-charter agreement for Flex Enterprise. With this extension, the firm period under the time charter is the end of first quarter of 2021, the
Wintershall Dea grabs nine Norwegian Continental Shelf exploration licenses
zoomImage courtesy of Wintershall Dea Independent natural gas and crude oil producer Wintershall Dea has secured interests in nine new exploration licenses in Norway, including three as an operator. In the Awards for Predefined Areas (APA) 2019 licensing round, WintershallDEA received participating interest in one license in the Barents Sea,
Wärtsilä to convert Brazilian power plant to natural gas
zoomImage courtesy of Wärtsilä The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has been contracted to convert a Brazilian power plant to 100 percent natural gas operation, while at the same time increasing output from 85 MW to 92 MW. The contract with Rio Amazonas Energia (RAESA) is for the Cristiano Rocha power
Shell and Turcas Petrol open Turkey’s first LNG station
Image courtesy of Turcas Petrol The Hague-based LNG giant Shell in cooperation with Turcas Petrol opened the first liquefied natural gas filling station in Turkey. The facility opened in Sapanca on the Istanbul-Ankara highway that facilitates the highest volumes of international transport traffic. In a brief statement through its social
Eni: Coral Sul FLNG hull launched
zoomImage courtesy of Eni Italian energy conglomerate Eni and its Area 4 partners launched the hull of the Coral Sul floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) treatment and liquefaction facility at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. The FLNG is part of the Coral South project that will
Gassco calls for new export infrastructure development
zoomImage courtesy of Equinor Gassco, the company running the Norwegian gas infrastructure, called for the construction of additional infrastructure to expand the utilization of resources from the Barents Sea. The company’s report on transporting more gas from Barents Sea South shows that expanding today’s capacity can lay the basis for
Sakhalin 2 floats two-cargo tender
Image courtesy of Gazprom Russia’s first liquefaction plant, Sakhalin 2, operated by Sakhalin Energy, has reportedly floated a tender seeking to sell two cargoes of the chilled fuel. Citing sources, Reuters reports that the two cargoes are loading in February. The slots on offer are February 26 and February 28,
Trelleborg buys Signum Technology
Image courtesy of Trelleborg Swedish engineering company Trelleborg has, through its Industrial Solutions business area, acquired engineering group Signum Technology and its units Gall Thomson, Klaw LNG, Klaw Products, and Vee Bee Filtration. The acquisition of Signum, which provides safety-critical solutions for flow control applications, including Marine Breakaway Couplings (MBCs)
Lithuania dispatches record gas volumes to Baltic States
zoomImage courtesy of enmin.lrv.lt By making targeted investments into the Lithuanian gas infrastructure and its interconnection with neighboring countries, the gas transmission to the Baltic States increased 2.6-fold last year if compared to 2018, and reached almost 6 TWh of gas. According to the Lithuanian gas transmission system operator Amber
Sinanju Tankers takes delivery of Marine Vicky
zoomImage courtesy of Sinanju Tankers Holdings Sinanju Tankers Holdings said it has taken delivery of Marine Vicky, Singapore’s first LNG-fueled bunkering vessel from the Keppel Nantong shipyard in China. In a brief statement through its social media channels, Sinanju Tankers Holdings said the vessel will join the company’s fleet and