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Siemens gets Mozambique Northern Offshore. VesselsValue’s estimates.
“The superior level of commitment
West Africa Gas was incorporated in
LNG turbines job shared by our customer, Qatar Petroleum, March 2013 as a joint venture company of
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
and Northern Offshore’s rig-based and
Siemens Energy said it has won a contract onshore teams has allowed us to successfully LNG Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of
to supply power generation equipment overcome the uncertainty and operational Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
and boil-off gas compressors for the challenges from Covid-19 and focus (NNPC), and Ocean Bed Trading Ltd.
Mozambique LNG project. on delivering the first of our four high
CCS JV, a joint venture between Saipem specification new build jack-ups into the
and McDermott awarded the contract. Middle East region”. Sudan prepares to liberalise
The facility is being developed in the Cabo Northern Offshore signed letters of award
Delgado province on Africa’s East Coast. for two long-term contracts for its newbuild fuel prices
The project, led by Total E&P jack-up rigs Energy Enticer and Energy Edge
Mozambique Area 1, includes the with Qatar Petroleum back in May 2019. The Minister of Energy and Mining, Engineer
development of offshore gas fields in At the time of the award, both rigs were Khairi Abdul-Rahman, revealed that
Mozambique’s Area 1. It also includes a under construction at Shanghai Waigaoqiao arrangements are underway to implement the
liquefaction plant with a capacity in excess Shipyard in China. Each of these drilling price liberalisation policy for the gasoline and
of 12mn tonnes per year. units was awarded four-year firm contracts benzene, that a decision on liberation of their
As part of the contract, Siemens Energy (plus options). prices was issued a long time ago and officially
will supply six SGT-800 industrial gas They were initially expected to start announced by the Prime Minister in public
turbines. The units will provide low- working in Qatar in April 2020 and June meetings and in his television interview.
emissions onsite power generation. 2020, respectively. He pointed out that this issue is no longer
The 54MW turbine rating selected a subject of leaks, but it was awaiting the
for this project has a gross efficiency of arrangements made by the Ministry of Energy
39 percent, Siemens Energy said in its Hyundai Mipo wins order and Mining, starting with counting and
statement on Thursday. qualifying the companies that will enter the
It features a robust, dry low-emission for LPG carrier duo import and sale process, as well as preparing
(DLE) combustion system that enables and declaring international bids for free and
‘world-class’ emission performance over a South Korean shipbuilding major Hyundai transparent competition.
wide load range. Mipo Dockyard has secured an order for the He announced the completion of the
construction of two LPG carriers from an application and sorting process in full
undisclosed African shipowner. transparency and that requirements for the
Northern Offshore’s jack-up According to Clarksons Platour Shipbroking, winning companies were issued, praising the
result of the bids that was very honorable to
West Africa LPG is behind the order featuring
rig starts drilling in Qatar two 23,000 cbm fully refrigerated LPG all those interested inside and outside Sudan
in terms of the professionalism and high
carriers.
A Northern Offshore-owned drilling rig The vessels are conventionally fuelled, professionalism required by the ministry,
Energy Enticer has started drilling operations Clarksons said. adding that the ministry has provided a
with Qatargas. The contract is worth $ 77.7mn (KRW commercial value of about (35) million
The Energy Enticer is a jack-up drilling 89.2bn), the shipbuilder revealed in a stock dollars out of the total value of the petroleum
rig of a GustoMSC CJ50 design. exchange filing. derivatives purchased, compared to what was
The Energy Enticer rig had a successful The LPG carriers are slated for delivery in previously done without bid.
mobilisation to Qatar Petroleum’s North September 2022. He announced the arrival of a big number
Field in early September 2020 despite The order builds on the previous of ships through this global bid, which is
recent global industry challenges, Northern cooperation between the two companies. awaiting completion of the purchase steps,
Offshore said on October 14. West Africa LPG ordered its first two LPG based on the strategic commodity portfolio
It is the first of three drilling units to start carriers from the yard back in 2014, only a plan set by the Higher Committee for
long-term contracts with Qatargas on behalf year after the gas company had been formed. Economic Emergencies, which is currently
of Qatar Petroleum. The 38,000 cbm newbuilds, named sorting the local companies that will distribute
Chairman and CEO, Dr. Yuanhui Sun, MT Africa Gas and MT Sahara Gas, were the imported derivatives through their
stated: “We are very proud to announce delivered in 2017 and have a market stations with a free price for sale..
this significant milestone in the history of value of 83.3 million in total, according to

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