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Neptune updates output

guidance on Hammerfest

LNG outage

Northwest Europe-focused Neptune Energy
warned on October 27 that following a fire at
the Hammerfest LNG project a month earlier,
where it works as a partner, it had lowered its
2020 production guidance to 140,000-145,000
boepd, down from 145,000-160,000 boepd
previously.
The 5.6mn tonne per year (tpy)
Hammerfest LNG could remain offline until
October 1, 2021, its operator Equinor recently
LNG, and contribute to reducing shipping’s Hungary, Moldova and Ukraine. warned, while the facility is being repaired.
environmental burden. This is a European Project of Common Police, Norwegian safety authorities and
NYK LINE, November 06, 2020 Interest (PCI - EU Regulation 347/2013), a Equinor are all investigating the cause of the
priority project of the European Union, which fire.
DESFA becomes partner in strengthens security of supply, diversifies be recovered through business interruption
Neptune said its loss of revenue would
sources and routes of energy supply, enhances
the FSRU Alexandroupolis competition and supports the establishment of insurance, and it will also file insurance
claims for its share of repair costs. The outage
a Natural Gas trading hub in the wider region
The CEO of DESFA, Nicla Battialana, signed of Southeastern Europe, bearing obvious at Hammerfest LNG will be partly offset by
today an agreement for the acquisition of a benefits for all final consumers. The terminal new projects coming on stream in Norway
20% stake in Gastrade SA, the company that is expected to be operational in early 2023. and Indonesia, Neptune said. The company
develops the project of a floating storage and DESFA, November 04, 2020 will provide an update on production when
regasification unit (FSRU) of liquefied natural it announces its third-quarter results on
gas (LNG) in Alexandroupolis, becoming More reliability in liquid November 18.
thus one of the partners in the project, along
with Mrs. Elmina Kopelouzou, Founding natural gas trading
Shareholder and Chairwoman of the BoD, TMC supplies compressors
GasLog Cyprus Investments Ltd, DEPA The world’s first calibration facility for LNG
Commercial SA and Bulgartransgaz EAD. The flowmeters, the LNG Research & Calibration to Maran Gas Maritime LNG
signing ceremony took place in the presence Laboratory, which has been developed by the
of the Minister of Environment and Energy of Netherlands-based metrological institute VSL carriers
Greece, Mr. Kostis Hatzidakis. in collaboration with international partners,
This agreement, which is subject to the is now in operation at the Port of Rotterdam. TMC Compressors has been chosen to supply
approval of the competent Greek and/or Together with partners, Endress+Hauser the marine compressed air system to several
European authorities, is the result of a very supplied the laboratory with flow, temperature LNG Carriers that Daewoo Shipbuilding and
thorough due diligence, on all financial, and pressure instruments for LNG Marine Engineering (DSME) is building for
commercial, legal and regulatory aspects of measurements. Greek shipowner Maran Gas Maritime.
the project. The construction of this facility During the transition period between the TMC’s scope of work is to deliver 3 x
will actively contribute to the security, fossil and renewable energy eras, liquefied service and control air compressors to each
liquidity and efficiency of Greece’s energy natural gas (LNG) is considered a key energy of the eight LNG carriers, which will have a
system and will strengthen the strategic source to realise global emissions targets. LNG cargo capacity of 174,000 cubic metres LNG.
role of the country in SE Europe, offering is particularly popular as a fuel in the long- Maran Gas Maritime is a unit of
opportunities for new gas exports to the distance transportation sector, such as trucks Angelicoussis Shipping Group.
region. and marine, as it enables compliance with “Over the past decade, TMC has been
The FSRU will be located 17.6 km stringent environmental regulations on SOx the favoured supplier of marine compressed
southwest of the port of Alexandroupolis and NOx emissions in the sector. air systems to LNG vessels. Such vessels are
and will have an LNG storage capacity of In its liquid state, natural gas has a part of a green shipping wave dedicated to
up to 170,000 cubic meters and a natural temperature of –163°C and a volume 600 reducing CO2 emissions and other harmful
gas sent out capacity that will exceed 5.5bn times smaller than its gaseous state, making emissions to air. Our compressors have been
cubic metres per year. The floating unit it efficient to transport. Since, with the usual designed so that the vessel crew can maintain
will be connected to the National Natural large transport quantities, even the slightest the compressors themselves without the
Gas System of Greece via a 28 km long measurement deviation can make a big need for an external service technician. This
pipeline, through which the regasified difference in billing, accurate mass flow approach reflects the shipping industry’s
LNG will be transmitted to the markets of measurements are critically important for requirement to reduce both operating
Greece, Bulgaria and the wider region, from reliable trading relationships. expenditure and its environmental footprint,”
Romania, Serbia and North Macedonia to ENDRESS+HAUSER, November 05, 2020 says Hans Petter Tanum, TMC’s director of

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