28 August 2026 FSRU vs Onshore → Flexibility vs Scale CAPEX Advantage: ~25% FSRU: $130/tpa | 155K m³ storage | 7 buffer days Onshore: $210/tpa | 830K m³ storage | 10 buffer days FSRU or Onshore? FSRU advantages: Fast-track Redeployment Charter option Onshore advantages: Lower weather-related operating exposure Larger scalable capacity Phased expansion — tanks, regasification trains and berths Lower OPEX — no vessel crewing, classification surveys, periodic drydocking or towag

17 August 2026 Commercial pioneers → Asian scale-up → FSRU → Fast-track terminals Capacity evolution 🔹 1964–1985 | Commercial pioneers — Atlantic terminals established LNG trade; Japan built large receiving and storage infrastructure. 🔹 1986–2003 | Asian scale-up — South Korea and Taiwan joined Japan; larger terminals and national gas networks made Asia the centre of LNG demand. 🔹 2004–2014 | New import markets — India and China commissioned their first major terminals;

14 August 2026 Onshore Gas Pipeline CAPEX (2005–2030) Key facts: • Conventional: $4.5M/km (15 projects) • Mountains: $15.1M/km (4 projects) • Arctic/Sub-Arctic: $7.9M/km (4 projects) Conventional 🇺🇸 2008 — Southeast Supply Header | 435 km | 42″ | $3.6M/km 🇺🇸 2009 — Gulf Crossing | 568 km | 42″ | $3.0M/km 🇺🇸 2011 — Tiger Pipeline | 282 km | 42″ | $5.5M/km 🇺🇸 2011 — Fayetteville Express | 301 km | 42″ | $4.8M/km 🇺🇸 2017 — Trans-Pecos + Comanche Trail | 544 km comb

July 7, 2026 by Iain Esau US player qualifies to bid for programme management consultancy contracts Fluor's office at Al Khobar in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province.Photo: FLUOR Texas-based Fluor confirnmed on Tuesday that it has made the list of contractors qualified to carry out project management consultancy (PMC) work for Saudi Aramco. The Saudi giant has Long-Term Agreement (LTA) contractors who are automatically able to participate in large tender processes, without goin

July 14, 2026 by Jordan Blum Signage outside the Mitsubishi Corp. head office in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 15, 2026. Mitsubishi agreed to buy Aethon Energy Management's US gas and pipeline assets for $7.5 billion, the biggest purchase by a Japanese company in the American shale sector.PHOTOGRAPHER: TAKAAKI IWABU/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES Mitsubishi officially became one of the largest natural gas producers in the U.S. on Wednesday, following a $7.5 billion deal that positions th

July 3, 2026, by Melisa Cavcic Norway’s oil and gas player Vår Energi has received authorization from the country’s authorities to bring online another segment of an oil project in the North Sea off the coast of Norway FPSO Jotun; Source: Vår Energi The Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (Havtil) has granted Vår Energi consent for the start-up and operation of Balder Phase VI on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (CCS). Located in the central part of the North Sea, just west of

June 25, 2026, by Melisa Cavcic ABL, part of Oslo-listed global consultancy Aqualis, has landed a hand to India’s government-owned energy giant Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) in the preparation for the monsoon season by helping reposition the offshore rig fleet deployed in the Asian country’s waters Rig move illustration; Source: ABL, part of Aqualis ABL has supported India’s ONGC in completing 44 jack-up rig moves ahead of the monsoon season, executed between

July 2, 2026, by Melisa Cavcic France’s energy giant TotalEnergies has struck a deal to divest to Japan’s Inpex its non-operated interest in a gas field off the coast of Sarawak, Malaysia. Illustration; Source: TotalEnergies TotalEnergies has disclosed the divestment of its 85% interest in Block 2E offshore Malaysia to Inpex, representing a net interest of 8.5% in the Shell-operated Marjoram gas field currently under development, for a consideration of $350 million. The Frenc

EU wind and solar generated more than gas for the first time. Source: Annual electricity data, Ember Summary: Is oil and gas exploration returning to Europe's agenda? In the short term (2024–2026), we will see targeted project revival driven by energy security logic. However, in the medium term (toward 2030) and beyond, this trend will collide with the overriding force of the EU Green Deal, the exponential growth of renewables, and tightening financial constraints. The futur

Saudi Arabia's New Energy Export Summary: The next EPC super-cycle is about AI: Saudi Arabia is betting on cheap power ($0.01/kWh), land, and state will to become a global AI hub and exporter of compute. The time for giga-projects is now. The driver of the next infrastructure wave won't be molecules or electrons—it will be algorithms . Saudi Arabia isn't just adopting AI; it's executing a sovereign strategy to pivot its entire economic export model from barrels of oil to t