Equipment & Technology

Australia: AME Conducts More Than 60 Successful Retrieval Missions

Australia: AME Conducts More Than 60 Successful Retrieval Missions

The gas industry-funded aero medical evacuation (AME) helicopter service has conducted more than 60 successful retrieval missions in its first year, including 39 for members of the public needing urgent medical attention. Funded by Arrow Energy, Origin, QGC and Santos GLNG Project, the service was launched in April 2011 to help minimise the impact on [...]

Canaport LNG Starts Work on BOG Project (Canada)

Canaport LNG Starts Work on BOG Project (Canada)

During the month of May, Canaport LNG will begin work related to the upgrade of the BOG compression system project announced earlier this year. This work will take place during a temporary suspension of Terminal operations. As a result of the suspension of Terminal operations, Canaport LNG will experience intermittent flaring which will be visible [...]

Wood Group Mustang Wins Contract for Ichthys CPF (Australia)

Wood Group Mustang Wins Contract for Ichthys CPF (Australia)

Wood Group Mustang has been awarded the topsides detailed engineering and procurement support for the semi-submersible central processing facility (CPF) in the Ichthys field development. This contract was awarded by Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., the EPC contractor for the CPF. The project, located off the northwest coast of Australia, in 250 meters of water, [...]

KSB to Present New TRIODIS Valves at ACHEMA, Germany

KSB to Present New TRIODIS Valves at ACHEMA, Germany

As a complement to its extensive range of butterfly valves for handling liquefied gas, KSB Aktiengesellschaft, Frankenthal, Germany will be presenting the new TRIODIS valve series at this year’s ACHEMA. The maintenance-free triple-offset butterfly valves are designed for handling fluids with temperatures ranging from minus 250 to plus 200 degrees Celsius, depending on their properties, [...]

Air Products Wins Ichthys LNG Work (Australia)

Air Products Wins Ichthys LNG Work (Australia)

Air Products said it has signed an agreement with JKC Joint Venture (JV) and INPEX Operations Australia Pty Ltd, for the supply of the liquefaction technology and main cryogenic heat exchangers for two process trains that will produce a total of 8.4 million tons of LNG per year. Air Products’ LNG heat exchanger technology will [...]

Australia: Prelude FLNG Contract Goes to FES

Australia: Prelude FLNG Contract Goes to FES

Global supplier of fluid transfer systems, FES International, has landed a $1.6m deal to supply Anglo-Dutch energy and petrochemical giant, Shell with six Diverless Bend Stiffener Connectors (DBSCs) for its Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) operations off the Western Australian coast. The DBSC’s are being procured for Shell’s Prelude FLNG project, which will be the [...]

PMFG Scores Order for LNG Terminal in Australia

PMFG Scores Order for LNG Terminal in Australia

PMFG said that it was awarded an order in excess of $4.0 million to provide large-scale separation equipment for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project in Australia. The project will be scheduled on its fourth quarter bookings and backlog, however due to the complexity of the order the revenue will be recognized in [...]

HFT: LNG Pipeline Weld Root Defects Can be Thing of Past (UK)

HFT: LNG Pipeline Weld Root Defects Can be Thing of Past (UK)

Root defects in LNG pipeline welds can now be a thing of the past thanks to innovative ancillary equipment designed and manufactured by Huntingdon Fusion Techniques Ltd. Following on from the company’s progressive developments in inert gas purging comes a new generation of easy to use ancillaries. PurgElite® is a group of inflatable devices. This [...]

Tideland Wins Another Angola LNG Deal

Tideland Signal, the international specialist in aids to marine navigation, has won a further order to supply eight of its SB-2200 polyethylene buoys complete with MaxLED-200 lanterns to the new LNG port at Soyo in the north of Angola. Like the previous order, the new buoys will be used in marking the approach channel and [...]

TDW Offshore Completes Pipeline Work in Qatar

TDW Offshore Completes Pipeline Work in Qatar

TDW Offshore Services announced that it has completed a pipeline pressure isolation operation in Qatar on behalf of a major supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG). The operation took place at the customer’s LNG complex in Qatar.  Natural gas is transported from platforms offshore Qatar through seven LNG trains to this complex. In order to [...]





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