Egypt’s oil minister has announced that natural gas production would increase by 14.1mn cubic metres per day by December this year with several gas fields due on stream in the north African country
Gas
Kentz wins US$125 million Qatargas LNG plant contract
Kentz, holding company of Kentz Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a US$125mn contract by Qatargas to build a wastewater facility in its LNG plant located at Ras Laffan Industrial City
OMV to build gas facility and pipeline in Tunisia
Tunisia has approved OMV’s plans to build a gas production facility and a pipeline in the north African country
Drydocks World to construct first ever LNG-powered tugboat
Drydocks World has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Finnish marine power source Wartsila and Dubai Maritime City to construct the world’s first LNG-powered harbour tugboat
Lukoil to drill for gas in Saudi Arabia’s ‘Empty Quarter’
Russia’s Lukoil has announced that it will drill deep for unconventional gas in Saudi Arabia’s challenging ‘Empty Quarter’ desert region early 2015