France’s GTT has received an order from the Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for the tank design of three new LNG carriers. Courtesy of GTT The new LNG carriers are for a ship-owner whose name remains undisclosed at this stage. The vessels will each offer a cargo capacity of …

France’s TotalEnergies has wrapped up a transaction with Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) regarding the downstream facilities of the Gladstone LNG project in Australia. Courtesy of TotalEnergies The 7.8 million tonnes per year Gladstone LNG project is owned by TotalEnergies’ subsidiary Total GLNG Australia (TGA). It is an integrated LNG project …

EDP and TechnipFMC, together with research partners, have launched a joint project to develop a conceptual engineering and economic feasibility study for a new offshore system for green hydrogen production from offshore wind power. The goal of the project – called BEHYOND and supported by the Blue Growth Programme of …

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Honeywell, Sasol, and Wood have joined the Hydrogen Council along with ten more companies – two of which are new investors. Oilfield services provider Wood said that it became a steering member of the Hydrogen Council – a group of over 100 companies from …

Vard Electro has been awarded a contract with Canada’s Atlantic Towing for a hybrid battery power system to be integrated on its platform supply vessel Atlantic Shrike as part of a push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Atlantic Towing is the first company to implement this multiple mode application of …

The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has won a contract to provide engines, the fuel storage and supply system, for a new Italian ferry designed to operate on LNG. Courtesy of NAOS Wärtsilä will provide both the ferry’s main and auxiliary engines. The ferry is under construction at the Turkish Sefine …

DEME’s Living Stone has successfully installed DolWin6 HVDC cable while powered by LNG, thus significantly reducing emissions. Courtesy of DEME Offshore This is the first time a cable-laying vessel has installed cables while powered on LNG, DEME Offshore reports. Living Stone is DEME’s LNG-powered offshore multipurpose vessel capable of performing …

American power and energy company Dominion Energy and a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway have agreed to terminate the planned sale of natural gas pipeline company Questar Pipelines. Illustration only; Courtesy of Dominion Energy The companies stated that the termination is a result of ongoing uncertainty associated with a …

Chairman of Malaysian oil major Petronas will be retiring from the company and its board after serving his three-year term. Petronas said on Monday that its chairman Tan Sri Ahmad Nizam Salleh completed its three-year contractual tenure from 1 August 2018 to 31 July 2021. Upon his retirement, Tan Sri …

Japan’s oil and gas producer Inpex has received its first carbon-neutral LNG cargo from Australia’s Ichthys LNG project. Courtesy of Inpex The 148,000-cubic metres Symphonic Breeze delivered the cargo from the Ichthys LNG export facility in Australia, operated by Inpex. Japan’s energy giant’s first offtake of carbon-neutral LNG was received …