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African investment platform for the energy sector Energy Capital & Power has listed six key capital expenditure LNG project developments to watch in West Africa. The theme for this year’s MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power Conference & Exhibition is ‘The Future of Natural Gas: Growth Using Strategic Investment and Policymaking.’ This is a response to growing investor interest in... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras clarifies the pieces of news in the media about the natural gas purchase agreement signed between Petrobras and Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB). In 1996, Petrobras entered into a long-term natural gas purchase and sale contract with YPFB, with a contracted volume of 30 MM m³/day. In 2019, the National... Continue Reading →
(PN) With an enviable portfolio of new offshore field developments, Brazil is expected to attract around 10% of the resources earmarked for new oil and gas projects worldwide by 2025. In addition, the country will receive a total of US$ 36.7 billion in investments in this period, which will be applied in the development of... Continue Reading →
Brazilian oil and gas player Enauta has revealed that its exclusivity deal with Australia’s Karoon Energy for the sale of a partial stake in a field located offshore Brazil has been terminated, thus, the company will be keeping its entire stake in this field for the time being. Back in March 2022, Enauta confirmed it... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Private equity firms Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors and Warburg Pincus are exploring a sale of Terra Energy Partners LLC, seeking as much as $2.5 billion, including debt, for the natural gas producer, people familiar with the matter said. The buyout firms launched an auction process to sell their majority stake in Terra earlier... Continue Reading →
(WO) African nations should resist pressure from “powerful interests” to hastily abandon fossil fuels to avoid hurting their economies, Angola’s President Joao Lourenco said. Since the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November, pressure has been building on African countries to shift to cleaner energy sources to avoid catastrophic global warming. “More than 125 billion oil barrels... Continue Reading →
(Offshore Energy) South Korean shipbuilders Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering and Samsung Heavy Industries have won orders for a total of seven new LNG carriers. On 17 May, KSOE said it won a $910 million (1.17 trillion KRW) order to construct four new LNG carriers. Specifically, its units Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries will... Continue Reading →
Africa is conservatively forecast to reach peak gas production at 470 billion cubic meters (Bcm) by the late 2030s, equivalent to about 75 per cent of the expected amount of gas produced by Russia in 2022, according to research by Rystad Energy. In early March, the European Union announced it aims to reduce its dependence on... Continue Reading →
Japan's biggest oil and gas explorer Inpex Corp raised its net profit forecast for 2022 by 20% to a record 300 billion yen ($2.3 billion) thanks to higher-than-expected oil prices and a lower yen against the U.S. dollar. Its annual net profit prediction was raised from its February estimate of 250 billion yen as the... Continue Reading →
GAS Entec has completed the conversion of a 125,000m³ LNG carrier into an FSRUfor KARMOL, a joint-venture between Turkey's Karpowership and Japan's Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), for deployment in Senegal. The company, a subsidiary of Atlantic Gulf & Pacific International Holding (AG&P), has converted the LNG carrier into an 84 mmscfd Modular Floating Storage and Regasification... Continue Reading →
