AEKS Chooses Gerotto Tank Cleaning System
AEKS is a Croatian service company active throughout Europe with extensive experience in cleaning storage tanks used for storing crude oil, oil derivatives, process water and similar substances. Over the years, it has developed expertise and chosen technologies that have enabled it to remove, in total, more than 80,000 m3 of material. Always attentive to the most advanced technologies, AEKS has recently chosen Gerotto’s no-man-entry solutions to ensure even more safety for operators and optimise site times. The company has included Gerotto’s tank cleaning system in its fleet, equipped with the two 10-foot containers solution. In this set-up, one container […]
GlobalData: Growing Production, Growing Demand
Strong oil and gas demand are set to support production growth in the Permian Basin, says GlobalData Global oil demand has been on the rise since the Covid-19 pandemic. Moreover, the Russia-Ukraine conflict caused major alterations in energy supply routes, which went in favour of the US shale drillers, including those in the Permian Basin. Spanning Texas and New Mexico, Permian Basin remains the largest oil-producing shale player in the US. Strong global demand and geopolitical shifts continue to support growth and competitiveness of this critical energy region, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. GlobalData’s latest report, Permian […]
TotalEnergies Expands LNG Bunkering Footprint
TotalEnergies has signed a charter contract with Spanish shipowner Ibaizabal for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker vessel of 18,600m3 capacity. The vessel, owned by Ibaizabal, will supply LNG […]
Woodside Acquires Tellurian
Woodside has completed the acquisition of Tellurian and its US Gulf Coast driftwood LNG development opportunity. Woodside has acquired all issued and outstanding Tellurian common stock for approximately $900 million […]
ExxonMobil Secures Largest US CO2 Storage Site
Exxon Mobil has secured the largest offshore carbon dioxide (CO2) storage lease in the US, with the Texas General Land Office. The over 271,000-acre site complements the onshore CO2 storage portfolio […]
PT Oiltanking Karimun Terminal Changes Name
PT Oiltanking Karimun Terminal in Indonesia, which is a Platts-approved terminal in the Singapore Market On Close assessment process, has changed its name to PT Oil Terminal Karimun. The name […]
Aramco Announces Completion of Sukuk Issuance
Aramco has announced the completion of a $3 billion (€2.7 billion) international sukuk issuance, comprised of two US dollar-denominated tranches. The tranches are split in two ways. $1.5 billion (€1.3 […]
VTTI & Connex Announce New Partnership
VTTI and Connex have announced a new partnership to develop a state-of-the-art renewable feedstock pretreatment facility at VTTI’s terminal in Amsterdam. Once completed, the facility will process over 400,000 tonnes […]
ExxonMobil Selects Chart Industries’ IPSMR Technology
ExxonMobil, on behalf of Mozambique Rovuma Venture, operator of the Area 4 concession in northern Mozambique’s Rovuma Basin, has announced it has selected Chart Industries’ IPSMR liquefaction technology and proprietary […]
Avenir LNG & Eni Sign Multi-Year Charter Agreement
Avenir LNG has announced it has signed a time charter party with LNG Shipping, a 100% subsidiary of Eni, for one of the company’s 7,500m³ LNG bunker vessels, the Avenir […]
Neste Collaborates with Tepsa for Chemical Recycling
Neste and Tepsa have collaborated to enhance chemical recycling capabilities on the storage and handling of liquefied waste plastics in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Following successful industrial-scale processing runs, Neste is […]
Worley Partners With Liquid Wind for E-Methanol Facility
Worley and Liquid Wind have entered into an agreement to provide design and engineering services for the development of the NorthStarH2 e-methanol facility in Östersund, Sweden. The facility, which is […]
Ghent Renewables To Expand Pretreatment Capacity
Ghent Renewables NV has announced on LinkedIn that its board has officially approved the expansion of its pretreatment capacity for waste oils and food waste products like UCO, POME, SBO […]
Mason Capital Consortium to Acquire CB&I
A consortium led by Mason Capital Management, in partnership with IES Holdings, Nut Tree Capital Management, 683 Capital Management, First Pacific Advisors, and other investors, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the CB&I storage solutions business, the world’s foremost designer and builder of storage facilities, tanks and terminals for energy and industrial markets, from McDermott International. CB&I is the world’s most technically advanced builder of storage facilities serving customers across the water and wastewater, upstream, downstream, petrochemical and industrial sectors. The Company delivers products and solutions for critical energy infrastructure projects, including complex low temperature […]
IDEC Launches New FT1J Series
IDEC has updated its SmartAXIS Touch family with the new FT1J Series Combined PLC+HMI. The device combines a built-in full function controller and a 4.3 inch (10.9 cm) touchscreen display, […]
TotalEnergies Presents Strategy and Outlook for 2024
Patrick Pouyanné, chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies has presented the company’s strategy and outlook goals for 2024. TotalEnergies has advanced its balanced and profitable transition strategy, anchored on two pillars, […]
LUSAS Consultancy Services: Ensuring Asset Integrity In Earthquakes
The experts at LUSAS Consultancy Services explain how base-isolation can protect the structure of LNG tanks in tectonically active regions Panama and Central America are tectonically active regions, and LNG tanks represent critical structures with strict design requirements under accidental and earthquake conditions. In this case, base-isolation systems have become a cost-effective solution for increasing seismic demands in the design of large storage tanks. LUSAS Consultancy Services has extensive experience in carrying out a wide range of analyses for large LNG storage tanks. Over the years, the team’s specialist engineers have assisted numerous companies, including Korea Gas Technology Corporation (KOGAS-Tech), […]
Santos Signs LNG Supply Contract
Santos has announced the signing of a mid-term LNG supply contract with TotalEnergies Gas & Power Asia. The contract is to supply 20 LNG cargoes, or up to approximately 0.5 […]
QatarEnergy LNG Awards McDermott EPCI Contract
McDermott has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract by QatarEnergy LNG, for the North Field South (NFS) offshore pipelines and cables project in Qatar. The NFS […]
TotalEnergies Announces FID on GranMorgu Project
TotalEnergies has announced final investment decision (FID) for the GranMorgu development on Block 58, a large offshore deepwater oil project in Suriname, South America. The GranMorgu project will develop the […]
Gastrade Begins Commercial Operations in Greece
Gastrade has announced that the Alexandroupolis LNG terminal in Greece, has entered commercial operations. As a key project at European, Regional, National and local level, it was designed, built, owned […]
Mitsubishi Signs LNG Partnership with Petronas
Petronas and Mitsubishi have signed a new agreement to deliver liquefied natural gas (LNG) to international markets, with a primary focus on customers in Japan. The agreement outlined Mitsubishi’s investment […]
Woodside Completes OCI Clean Ammonia Acquisition
Woodside has completed the acquisition of 100% of OCI Clean Ammonia Holding which holds its lower carbon ammonia project in Texas, USA, from OCI. The completion follows Woodside’s announcement that […]
Uniper to Close Ratcliffe-on-Soar Plant
Uniper has announced the end of its Ratcliffe-on-Soar power plant, in Nottingham, UK. In a post on LinkedIn, the Uniper team comments: ‘This marks a key milestone, not only for […]
TotalEnergies Commissions US Solar Farms
TotalEnergies has started commercial operations of Danish Fields and Cottonwood, two utility-scale solar farms with integrated battery storage located in southeast Texas, USA. These new projects, with a combined capacity […]
Event Preview: AntwerpXL
Planning a new tank project? Meet all the right shipping and logistics partners at AXL this October Taking place place in Antwerp, Belgium, on 8-10 October 2024, AXL is Europe’s high-quality, focused breakbulk and project cargo event. Cargo owners such as those planning new storage tank or wind turbine projects can expect an insightful conference tackling the most difficult-to-answer questions, as well as plenty of networking opportunities to connect with a variety of logistics partners that will help get your components from A to B, easier, faster, and with less hassle. Energy Update ‘The AXL conference programme is shaping up […]
Global Tank Storage Award Winner 2024: Outstanding Achievement
Winner of the 2024 Tank Storage Award for ‘Outstanding Achievement’, Saudi Aramco’s Mohammed Abufour, speaks to Tank Storage Magazine about securing the gold award and what it took to get here Lifetime member of ASNT (The American Society for Non-destructive Testing), Mohammed Abufour has over 40 years of non-destructive testing (NDT) experience in the oil and energy industry. He has acquired this experience in a number of different positions, including NDT inspector, NDT supervisor, NDT consultant and engineering specialist. An accumulation of these positions has led him to an impressive career, and to a Gold Award at the 2024 Global […]
TotalEnergies Acquires Gas Producing Assets in Texas
TotalEnergies has announced the signing of an agreement with Lewis Energy Group, to acquire a 45% interest in dry gas producing assets owned and operated by Lewis Energy Group in […]
Crosby Liquid Bulk Terminals: Success In Stability
Vice President of Crosby Liquid Bulk Terminals, Robert Powell, takes us through the company’s extensive history, and how it’s keeping up in modern times Crosby Liquid Bulk Terminals is a 145-year-old family-owned company in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, now into its fifth generation of owners. Pre-World War II, Crosby would import molasses on tall sailing ships into Courtney Bay, and this product originally came from Barbados. Today, the molasses is shipped by vessel from Guatemala. The cane molasses (Blackstrap and Fancy) are blended and then transported to Crosby’s Foods company, where it’s packaged into consumer products and sold to […]
Chane Opens Geulhaven Expansion
Chane Terminal Geulhaven has opened a new expansion, adding 75,000 m³ of storage capacity. The terminal, located in the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, now boasts a total capacity of […]
HES International Announces New Agricultural Shed
HES International, has announced the opening of a new agricultural shed at its terminal in the Port of Amsterdam, Netherlands. This new flat storage facility is designed specifically for agricultural […]
Event Preview: StocExpo 2025
Join industry leaders at Europe’s premier event for the bulk liquid storage industry, StocExpo in March 2025 Europe’s leading storage terminal and energy infrastructure event is set to return on 11-12 March 2025 – celebrating 20 years of outstanding service and insights to the industry. Following an incredibly successful year in 2024, the team is looking forward to a standout celebration in 2025. As the event’s sister publication, Tank Storage Magazine brings you an exclusive scoop of what’s new at the show for next year. Drones & Robotics Innovations In partnership with Sprint Robotics, StocExpo 2025 brings you the latest […]
