Image courtesy of Baleària Spanish shipping company Baleària has started the LNG engine retrofit works on its Sicilia ferry that will see the vessel running on LNG by June this year. The vessel will become the sixth vessel in the company’s fleet running on liquefied natural gas, and will follow
Image courtesy of Bechtel LNG exports from the three liquefaction plants located on Curtis Island off Gladstone reached 1.79 million tons during February 2020. The volume was spread across 27 cargoes, data from the Gladstone Ports Corporation shows. Compared to the previous month when 1.98 million tons of LNG have
Image courtesy of BBG Spanish LNG terminal operator Bahía de Bizkaia Gas (BBG) reported a 95 percent rise in unloading and loading activities at its regasification terminal in the port of Bilbao. BBG, controlled by the Basque energy authority (EVE) and LNG player Enagás, said in a statement that the
zoomImage courtesy of Kinder Morgan Kinder Morgan-led Elba Island liquefaction project near Savannah, Georgia has received authorization to start operation at the fifth Moveable Modular Liquefaction System (Train 5). Elba Liquefaction Company and Southern LNG Company have filed the request on February 26, seeking permission to commence service for liquefaction
Image courtesy of Freeport LNG The United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted a permit to Freeport LNG to place the second jetty at its facility on Quintana Island, near Freeport, Texas. The commission noted in its letter that, based on commission staff inspections and review of the commissioning activities,
Image courtesy of Woodfibre LNG The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada said funds have been made available to assist the participation of the public and Indigenous people in the post-decision phase for the Woodfibre LNG project. The proposed liquefied natural gas facility located seven kilometers southwest of Squamish, British Columbia,
Image courtesy of Polskie LNG Polish sole liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility, the President Lech Kaczyński terminal in Świnoujście, has received a new cargo on Thursday. It was the 86th delivery since the project started operation, the operator said in a brief statement through its social media channels. The
Image courtesy Fugro Inpex Masela, a unit of Inpex Corporation, has awarded Fugro a large marine survey contract for the Abadi liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Indonesia. Fugro will perform geophysical and geotechnical surveys and the associated studies needed to support front-end engineering design (FEED) for offshore production facilities and the
zoomImage courtesy of Wärtsilä The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä signed a long-term operation & maintenance (O&M) agreement with Energía del Pacífico for a 378 MW LNG-fired power plant in El Salvador. The 15-year agreement was signed in the fourth quarter of 2019 and will take effect when the plant commences
Image courtesy of Subsea 7 Offshore services provider Subsea 7 has been contracted by ConocoPhillips Australia Barossa to deliver SURF scope for the Barossa project. The company noted the contract is between $300 million and $500 million. Subsea 7’s scope of work includes project management, engineering, procurement, fabrication, transportation, installation
Image courtesy of CPC Taiwan’s CPC Corporation (CPC) said it has received the country’s first delivery of “carbon-neutral” liquefied natural gas at the Yung-An LNG receiving terminal. CPC said in its statement that the cargo was sourced at the Sakhalin 2 LNG facility in Russia and delivered onboard the Grand
zoomImage courtesy of Equinor Norwegian energy company and LNG player Equinor has launched its new climate roadmap aiming to reduce the net carbon intensity of energy produced by at least 50 percent by 2050. Equinor added in its statement that it also aims to grow renewable energy capacity tenfold by