Qatargas has signed a heads of agreement with Petronas to supply the Malaysian company with 1.5 million mt/year of LNG under a long-term contract.

Saudi Aramco started producing gas recently from Karan, its first non-associated gas field,  industry sources said.

ABB has won an order worth more than US$30mn from Saipem S.p.A. and Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd to provide a range of power and automation equipment for a natural gas processing plant in Abu Dhabi.

Shells long-standing plan to capture and refine gas in southern Iraq has moved a step closer following approval by the country’s state-owned gas company.