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delivery in May 2021. innovation. Through this process, which based oil and gas company OMV for the
It is equipped with a 350 cubic metres allows for better LNG transport in France provision of services in Norway.
LNG tank. It will primarily be bunkered on and Europe, Elengy is contributing to the The agreement, which is in place for
Møhlenpriskaien every 14 days by Gasnor’s democratization of this low-polluting fuel,” five years with options for extension,
bunkering vessels. Renaud Muselier, president of the Région covers a wide range of services including
This is Ulvan Rederi’s largest single Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, president of well management, field development,
investment and a part of the green Regions de France said. consultancy, and wellsite geology, which
shipping program. Total’s senior VP LNG, Thomas will be delivered in Norway, Three60 said.
The focus was to design a propulsion Maurisse added that the demand for The work under the contract starts on
system to provide the lowest possible LNG in Northern Italy is growing, and Thursday, April 1, 2021, Three60 Energy
emissions and optimize energy Total is involved in this project with the said, without providing details on the first
consumption. The battery pack will have aim to facilitate the development of an project.
sufficient capacity to operate the vessel LNG supply chain from the Fos Cavaou
fully electrically. The vessel will also terminal.
use cold from LNG to cool the freezer “Using transport by rail will reduce the Var Energi wins approval to
compartments for fish storage. CO2 emissions associated with the delivery
of LNG and will contribute to our ambition sink four wells off Norway
to get to net-zero emissions by 2050,” he
Elengy delivers France’s concluded. Norwegian offshore oil and gas company
Vår Energi has received regulatory

first LNG delivery via rial approvals to drill four wells in the
production license 229, in the Norwegian
French LNG terminal operator Elengy has Sacyr Fluor pens two LNG section of the North Sea.
loaded the first ISO LNG container at its Fos terminal deals The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate
Cavaou terminal for further transport by rail. said Tuesday it had granted Vår Energi a
The ISO-tank will be transported from Sacyr Fluor, a unit of Sacyr Engineering drilling permit for wells 25/8-20 S, 25/8-20
the Miramas platform in the South of and Infrastructures, has secured two LNG A, 25/8-20 B and 25/8-20 C, cf. Section 13
France to a service station near Milan, terminal deals with Fluxys and Elengy. of the Resource Management Regulations.
Italy, Elengy said in its statement. The company noted it has started the Vår Energi will drill the wells using
This mode of transport offers several execution of respective contracts for the two Saipem’s Scarabeo 8 semi-submersible
benefits: it allows large volumes of LNG companies in Belgium and France. drilling rig drilling facility in position
to be transported, it reduces the cost of Under the agreement with Fluxys, 59°17’27.38”N and 2°22’27.05”E after
transport and it facilitates access to LNG Sacyr Fluor will work on the expansion of concluding the drilling of water injection
in certain regions, while significantly Zeebrugge LNG terminal’s regasification wells for Vår Energi AS in production
reducing the polluting emissions capacity as well as CO2 emissions reduction. licence 229.
associated with its transport, the statement The company has also been contracted The drilling program for wells 25/8-20
reads. to expand and automate the truck loading S and 25/8-20 B relates to the drilling of
Carried out in partnership with Total facility. wildcat wells and the drilling program for
and with the support of the Région Sud In France Sacyr Fluor has been contracted wells 25/8-20 A and 25/8-20 C relates to
and the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille, by Elengy to provide detailed engineering, the drilling of appraisal wells in production
this first loading operation of an ISO- procurement management and construction licence 027. Vår Energi AS is the operator
container transported by rail made it management of the priority works to adapt with an ownership interest of 90 percent.
possible to validate the entire logistics the jetty of the Fos-Tonkin LNG terminal for The other licensee is Mime Petroleum
chain. bunkering activities. with a ten percent stake. The area in this
Elengy is thus accelerating the This project will be executed jointly licence consists of parts of block 25/8. The
transformation of its LNG terminals into with the detailed engineering, procurement wells will be drilled about 8 kilometers
multimodal hubs to offer even greater management and construction management north of the Balder field. Production
flexibility to the market and facilitate contract already in execution to renovate licence 027 was awarded on 23 May 1969
access to liquefied natural gas. the terminal and extend its activity for an (Round 2-A). These are the 14th, 15th,
Commenting on the operation, Elengy’s additional 10 years, the statement reads. 16th and 17th exploration wells to be
CEO Sandra Roche-Vu Quang noted that Both contracts result from the successful drilled in the licence.
it paves the way for the development of execution of the basic engineering last year
LNG transport logistics chains by rail to and are expected to finalize by June 2022, the
serve regions in France and neighboring engineering company said.
countries that are in no way connected to
its LNG terminals.
“In 2017, with our regional Climate Three60 wins contract with
Plan, we made a commitment to take
concrete actions to develop eco-mobility OMV in Norway
for the well-being of the inhabitants
of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Four UK-based oilfield services company
years later, it is a great pleasure to see Three60 Energy has been awarded a
that our region hosting this exceptional new framework agreement with Austria-

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