Drilling & production

Nigeria LNG’s export terminal in the Bonny Channel has been blockaded by NIMASA over a dispute about maritime taxes. Currently two ships are stuck in port and one cannot enter.

The new lab, based in Tianjin, China offers advanced testing methods in compliance with DS-1, NS-2 and API standards.

Trelleborg Marine Systems will supply fender systems to QCLNG, Gladstone LNG and Australia Pacific LNG.

The two companies will be working together in order to develop technologies and know-how for the Russian oil and gas industry.

Genesis Oil and Gas Consultants Ltd announced that it has been awarded the subsea front-end engineering design (FEED) for the Kudu Gas to Power project.

Gazprom and Japan Far East Gas Co., Ltd. have signed an MOU about further cooperation on the Vladivostok LNG project and joint marketing of the project in Japan.

A recent report from the US Energy Information Administration shows US coal exports to Asia growing from 2% of total in 2007 to 25% in 2012.

Iraq, India’s second largest oil supplier, has announced that it is willing to provide as much oil as possible in the wake of reduced Iranian supplies.

Russian giant, Rosneft has agreed to a US$ 270 billion deal with China to supply an additional 300 000 bpd for 25 years starting in the second half of this decade.

The Komos airfield has been constructed at the Papua New Guinea LNG project

Novatek and CNPC have concluded a framework agreeement for the sale of a stake in the Yamal LNG project and a long term LNG supply deal.

US Bureau of Indian Affaird approves option to lease and exploration agreements between Cloud Peak Energy subsidiary and Crow Tribe of Indians.

A recent report from the IEA looks at the emergence of gas as a transportation fuel.

Rosneft and Vitol have signed a Heads of Agremnt for future cooperation in an LNG supply deal from Rosneft’s proposed LNG facility in Russia’s Far East.

A bill that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agecy regulating coal ash as hazardous waste has passed through the House Energy & Commerce Committee and will now go to a vote in the full House of Representatives.