Drilling & production

According to a report released by Lloyd’s Register, pricing will be a key factor in determining the rate of growth in infrastructure but collaboration from stakeholders is also required.

Cheniere Energy has awarded GE the contract to supply the gas compression trains for the Sabine Pass liquefaction expansion project.

China dominates the global coal industry with coal production expected to reach 4.5 billion t by 2020 and consumption expected to reach 5.2 billion t. Ankita Sinha, GBI Research, UK, outlines why China continues to lead the global coal mining market and what lies ahead for this coal giant.

KBR is to perform pre-FEED for Statoil’s LNG facility in Tanzania. Statoil is currently examining the viability of such a venture and the project is expected to be completed during 2013.

Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract for the development of the Dalmatian field, located in the Gulf of Mexico, by Murphy Exploration & Production Company.

GE Oil & Gas has been contracted to supply compressor train technology for Asia’s first Floating LNG facility, located off the coast of Malaysia.

AGRI LNG Project Company SRL has awarded Penspen Ltd the contract for conducting the feasibility study for the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania-Hungary Natural Gas Interconnector Project.

Cyril Widdershoven, TNO, the Netherlands, explains how changes in domestic demand for natural gas in the Middle East could impact upon global supply.

The Center for LNG has praised a call from Western US lawmakers for a quicker LNG export application approval process

Barry Baxter reports on fears that South African mine violence will spread.

Gazprom Group and Summa Group have agreed to develop the global market for LNG as a bunker fuel for marine vessels.

Qatargas has delivered commissioning cargo to China National Oil Corporation’s Zhejiang LNG Terminal in China. The cargo was delivered by Qatargas’s Q-Max LNG vessel, ZARGA.

Graeme Lingenfelder, Spencer Ogden, UK, discusses the skills shortage in the mining industry.

Dart Energy has been awarded the Bontang Bengalon coalbed methane (CBM) block in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Arch Coal has earned a place in the top 250 of the 2012 InformationWeek 500, which marks the most innovative users of business technology in the US. It is the seventh consecutive year that the coal miner has been recognised.