Day: March 31, 2025

Are China and Russia on a Collision Course in Africa?

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: This is an interesting view on the African continent’s activity between China and Russia. The United States would best be served by looking at energy as an export service and working to export things like clean coal technology or electrical grid management and creating energy, jobs, and trading partners. […]

Russian LNG production down in January-February

Energy News Beat Rosstat’s data shows that the country’s LNG terminals produced about 5.7 million mt in January- February, down 4.4 percent compared to the same period in 2024. In February, LNG production reached 2.7 million mt, a decrease of 11 percent compared to the January figure and of 5.9 percent year-on-year. In 2024, Russian […]

US FERC issues draft supplemental EIS for NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG project

Energy News Beat In August 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued an order vacating FERC’s remand authorization of NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG facility and the pipeline, saying that FERC should have issued a supplemental EIS during its remand process. The US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently revised its August […]

Canada’s Woodfibre LNG to start taking module deliveries in summer

Energy News Beat Canada’s Woodfibre LNG, a joint venture of Pacific Energy and Enbridge, has almost completed the marine offloading facility at the site of its LNG export facility near Squamish, British Columbia, paving the way for the arrival of preassembled modules from China starting this summer. Woodfibre LNG revealed this in a construction update. […]

Fugro survey vessel arrives safely to port following grounding

Energy News Beat EuropeOffshore Italian coast guard Fugro’s survey vessel, Fugro Mercator, has been towed to a shipyard for inspection following a grounding incident on March 22. After the incident occurred, the 11-strong crew were evacuated and taken ashore. Fugro said at the time that a salvage operation was being prepared together with international experts […]

BW LPG sells VLGC duo to Indian joint venture

Energy News Beat MarineTraffic / Ghis v d Vijver VLGC owner and operator BW LPG has signed a memorandum of agreement to sell two vessels to the BW LPG India joint venture. The two vessels in question, the BW Pampero and BW Chinook, were acquired in the recent Avance Gas transaction and will be sold […]

Global bunker tracking tool launches

Energy News Beat Elenger The world’s first global bunker tracking tool has been launched in Rotterdam. Spotbarge’s Bunker Insights offers real-time bunker tracking and detailed analytics of every vessel bunker operation in major global hubs. Spotbarge monitors and logs essential bunker data, including loading location, fuel type, bunker quantities, and more. Currently, Bunker Insights is […]

Panama deregisters 107 ships from its fleet due to sanctions

Energy News Beat AmericasOperations Panama Maritime Authority The Panama Maritime Authority (PMA) has officially deregistered 107 Panamanian-flagged vessels listed under international sanctions, with an additional 18 currently undergoing the deregistration process. This action is in accordance with Executive Decree No. 512 of October 18, 2024, which grants the PMA the authority to unilaterally cancel the registration of […]

Flex LNG CEO Øystein Kalleklev resigns

Energy News Beat Gastech The chief executive officer of Flex LNG, Øystein Kalleklev, has resigned from his position to pursue other opportunities. Flex LNG said that its board of directors accepted Kalleklev’s resignation from the CEO role after a stint of seven and a half years. Kalleklev joined Flex LNG in October 2017 and was […]

How the liner lineup has changed this century

Energy News Beat Containers Of the 50 largest container shipping lines in the world in the year 2000, only 24 are still in existence, according to new research from Denmark’s Sea-Intelligence.  The capacity operated by these surviving carriers has grown dramatically.  Overall, they have grown their collective capacity from 2.5m teu in 2000 to 26.7m […]