Germany builds up LNG import terminals
Germany is expanding its natural gas import options to replace Russian supply, a drive intensified by the latest suspension of Russian flows via Ukraine and U.S. President Donald Trump targeting Europe with liquefied natural gas exports.Plans also include shore-based regasification terminals and facilities to import and produce ammonia and green hydrogen under decarbonization strategies.
Germany builds LNG import terminals
Germany is increasing its natural gas imports to replace Russian supplies. This drive has been intensified due to the recent suspension of Russian gas flows via Ukraine, and U.S. president Donald Trump's targeting Europe with LNG exports. Here are some details about the terminals that will be developed to house floating storage regasification (FSRU) units for seaborne LNG. The plans also include facilities for importing and producing ammonia…
Germany Preps for More FSRU Vessels
Germany is expanding its natural gas import options to replace Russian supply. Following are updates on key facilities and terminals being developed to host floating storage regasification units (FSRUs) to receive seaborne liquefied natural gas (LNG). Plans also include shore-based regasification terminals and facilities to import and produce ammonia and hydrogen.STADEState-owned Deutsche…
Germany builds LNG import terminals
Germany is expanding its natural gas import options as part of efforts to decarbonise and replace Russian supplies. Here are some details about terminals that will host floating storage regasification (FSRU) units to receive LNG. There are also plans for shore-based terminals, as well as facilities to produce and import ammonia and hydrogen. In German media, the state-owned Deutsche Energy Terminal (DET)…
Germany builds LNG import terminals
Germany is expanding its natural gas import options as part of efforts to decarbonise and replace Russian supplies. Here are some details about terminals that will host floating storage regasification (FSRU) units to receive LNG. There are also plans for shore-based terminals, as well as facilities to produce and import ammonia and hydrogen. On Sept. 17, the private company Deutsche…
TechnipFMC-led Consortium to Expand Bahrain Refinery
State-run Bahrain Petroleum Co (Bapco) has awarded a consortium led by UK-based TechnipFMC a contract to expand Bahrain's only oil refinery, sources close to the matter told Reuters on Friday. A spokesman for South Korea's Samsung Engineering, also a member of the consortium, confirmed the news. Samsung Engineering said in a statement the consortium received a letter of award from Bapco on Nov. 30 to execute the project in a contract worth a total amount of $4.2 billion.
Saudi Aramco Signs $4.5 bln Oil, Gas Deals
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Saudi Aramco Mulls Bids to Expand Gas Plant
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Foreign Firms Bid for Saudi Aramco's Fadhili Gas Project
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MES Wins Order for 18 Reciprocating Compressors
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Tecnicas Reunidas Signs $700m Gas Deal in Abu Dhabi
Spain's Tecnicas Reunidas said on Tuesday it had signed a $700 million contract with Abu Dhabi Gas Industries to expand gas processing facilities. The 40 month contract is the company's fourth large-scale contract in Abu Dhabi, the engineering group said. (Reporting By Sonya Dowsett; editing by Sarah Morris)
North Dakota Group Plans $4b Chemical Plant
Badlands NGL LLC said on Monday it will build a $4 billion chemical plant in North Dakota to produce polyethylene, a key plastic used to make packaging, pipes and scores of other products. The plant will use ethane, a type of natural gas, as the primary feedstock, helping to cull flaring in the state. Ethane, which is extracted along with oil, is often burnt off and wasted because the state has limited capacity to process it.
Tecnicas Reunidas wins $500 mln Pemex Order
Spanish oil engineering company Tecnicas Reunidas said on Monday it had won a contract from Mexican state-run oil company Pemex for a refining project worth over $500 million. The two-part contract, which is expected to last more than three years, includes the designing, engineering, construction, supplying and starting up of three new refining units for Pemex's General Lazaro Cardenas de Minatitlan refinery.
Carlton Power to Develop UK Power Plant
British power station developer Carlton Power said on Thursday it had signed agreements to build a 1.8 gigawatt (GW) gas-fire power station and take over GE's stake in a planned 1.5 GW plant. It aims to build the 1.8 GW power station at Trafford near Manchester in northern England and take a stake in a planned 1.5 GW project near Doncaster, also in the north. "Carlton Power has appointed a consortium of (U.S.
Poland's PGE awards $1 bln Power Plant Contract
Poland's largest utility PGE has signed agreements with Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe, Polish construction firm Budimex, and Spain's Tecnicas Reunidas to build a new power unit at the Turow power plant. PGE said in a statement the net value of the agreement was 3.25 billion zlotys ($1.07 billion), and that the unit should take 56 months to build. ($1 = 3.0410 Polish Zlotys) Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk