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Bangladesh’s first floating LNG import terminal in Moheshkhali (Cox’s Bazar, bay of Bengal, southeast Bangladesh) has started operations following delays caused by technical problems. The floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) arrived on site in April 2018 to offload a maiden LNG cargo from Qatar. It was initially slated for startup in May 2018 but has been delayed until now because bad weather hampered the FSRU’s efforts to dock properly, connect to the domestic infrastructure and offload its cargo.

The Moheshkhali Floating LNG project was built by Excelerate Energy Bangladesh, a subsidiary of US-based Excelerate Energy. It has a capacity of 5.1 bcm/year and a storage capacity of 138 000 m3. It will be operated by Excelerate Energy over a 15-year period on a BOT basis and the ownership will be transferred to Petrobangla afterwards. Bangladesh has signed an MoU with Qatar to import 5.4 bcm/year of LNG worth US$1.56bn/year.

Two major Japanese engineering companies, namely Toshiba and Hitachi, and two Japanese power utilities, namely TEPCO and Chubu Electric, have entered negotiations into the possibility of jointly decommissioning obsolete nuclear reactors. They are considering launching a joint engineering company,…

Tariffs climbed significantly in the latest wind power auction held by India’s largest thermal power producer National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), as winning tariffs reached RUP2.77-2.83/kWh (roughly US$4c/kWh),…

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unveiled a new regulation proposal to replace the previous administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). The new regulation is called the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) and is meant to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from existing coal-fired power plants across the country.

Hitachi’s UK-based subsidiary Horizon Nuclear Power has selected the engineering firm Bechtel to manage the construction of the £16bn (about €18bn) Wylfa Newydd nuclear power plantproject in Anglesey in North Wales (United Kingdom). Bechtel will lead the contractual and commercial interface with suppliers on behalf of Horizon Nuclear Power.

Chinese energy companies Sinopec Corporation and Zhejiang Energy have agreed to jointly develop the 3 Mt/year LNG regasification terminal project in Wenzhou (Zhejiang province, East China). The project will include four tanks able to store 200,000 cubic metres of LNG each, a 26-km long gas pipeline and a berth to dock tankers of 30,000 cubic metres to 266,000 cubic metres. Once built,…

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has installed the first of three steam generators at the third unit of the Karachi Coastal Nuclear power plant project (Karachi-3), which is now under construction at Paradise Point in Sindh province (Pakistan).

US-based power company DTE Energy has broken ground on the 1,150 MW Blue Water Energy Center CCGT power plant in East China Township in Michigan (United States). The US$1bn facility will be built by Kiewit Engineering as of the spring 2019 and is slated for completion in 2022.