Russian natural gas giant Gazprom signed a preliminary agreement with global engineering company Linde to deliver engineering and procurement services for the Ust-Luga gas processing plant on the Baltic Sea. Gazprom CEO Miller signed the agreement on behalf of RusKhimAlyans, a special-purpose company established on a parity basis by Gazprom and RusGazDobycha and chaired [...]
Indian companies are investing billions of dollars to build infrastructure, including pipelines and a new LNG import terminal. NEW DELHI: Petronet LNG, India’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer, plans a 29% increase in its Dahej terminal’s capacity to 22.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) to meet rising demand, its chief executive said on Friday. [...]
February 27, 2021 [Argus] – The Middle East’s main oil and products storage hub of Fujairah, UAE, should be wary of adding too much refining capacity and focus instead on renewable energy projects, participants at the Fujairah IP Week workshop said. Refining activity in Fujairah is mostly focused on very low-sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) [...]
January 18, 2021 [Tehran Times] – The offshore development of Jask oil terminal will be started in a couple of days, the deputy managing director of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) for engineering and development affairs told IRNA on Friday. Referring to the construction process of the Goreh-Jask pipeline and the Jask export terminal, Reza [...]
Belgian gas grid operator Fluxys and Russian producer Novatek on Wendesday set up a joint venture to build a LNG terminal in the northern German port city of Rostock by 2022. The LNG storage terminal will have an import capacity of 300,000m tonnes annually, according to Laurent Remi, spokesman for Fluxys. However, the project does [...]
Enagás has awarded a contract to Spanish engineering company Ayesa to redesign the jetty at its Huelva LNG terminal. The revamped mooring set-up will enable the loading of small-scale gas carriers, including LNG bunker vessels (LNGBVs), and the direct loading of bunker tanks on LNG-powered vessels. This will be the third such project undertaken by [...]
Zhang Weiliang, CEO of UAV company Avetics Global, explains how the use of drones & automation are increasingly becoming part of the future for tank storage maintenance. The concept of using a drone to inspect a storage tank is a concept often mentioned in the storage industry, and several potential means of implementing the technology [...]
Odfjell Terminals has announced its intention to sell its 100 percent ownership of Odfjell Terminals Rotterdam (OTR) and Odfjell Terminals Maritiem to Koole Terminals of the Netherlands for $155 million. The intended transaction would reduce Odfjell Terminals' net debt by around $35 million. Odfjell SE's share of the proceeds is expected to amount to around [...]
