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Philip Lewis, Contributor - Director Research at Intelatus Global Partners.. (OE) We are fast approaching a potential inflection point for the U.S. offshore wind industry, the November 2024 elections. On the positive side of the scale, federal and state leases supporting approximately 63 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind capacity have been awarded to developers on the... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Flotation Energy and Vaargroenn, a joint venture between Eni unit Plenitude and private equity firm HitecVision, said on Tuesday their floating offshore wind project Green Volt won a contract at Britain's latest renewable power auction. The 2.5 billion pound ($3.28 billion) initiative, which is expected to have a capacity of up to 560 megawatts, is... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on Communication of December 13, 2023, informs that it signed 26 Concession Contracts of the 4th Permanent Concession Offer Cycle, acquired in partnership with Shell in the public session held by the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) in December 2023. The consortium will have... Continue Reading →
(PN) British oil company BP has notified the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) about the discovery of oil signs in the pioneer well of the Pau Brasil block, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin. As we reported, the well (which received the technical name 1-BP-12D-RJS) is located in a water depth of 2,283 meters... Continue Reading →
(PN) After approving the National Energy Transition Policy and other measures related to the green economy, the National Energy Policy Council (CNPE) made its decision and defined the parameters for new pre-salt blocks. In practice, the measure authorizes the Rubi and Granada areas, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, to be auctioned in a future round... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will publish a Call for Information and Nominations (Call) for a second offshore wind energy sale in the Central Atlantic, seeking public input on potential development in areas off the coasts of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. BOEM will public the Commercial Leasing... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) Equinor and Virginia Electric and Power Co, a subsidiary of Dominion Energy, have provisionally won lease areas in the Central Atlantic offshore wind auction in the US, each securing one site. The auction, which yielded almost USD 93 million (around EUR 84 million), saw a total of six companies participating. Equinor is provisionally awarded... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) The Crown Estate has invited proposals from the pre-qualified bidders in the Round 5 seabed leasing process which will award up to 4.5 GW of floating wind capacity in the Celtic Sea. On 13 August, The Crown Estate said the second phase of the leasing process got underway on 8 August, following the conclusion... Continue Reading →
(OE) The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has concluded that leases for potential offshore wind energy development off the Oregon coast would have no significant impacts to people or environment. BOEM has made available its final Environmental Assessment (EA) of the possible impacts from issuing leases for potential offshore wind energy development off the... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWind.wind) RWE and Luxcara have been selected as winners of the latest German tender, offering a total of 5.5 GW of capacity across three sites, N-9.1, N-9.2, and N-9.3, all located in the German North Sea. RWE has secured the sites N-9.1 and N-9.2, where the company plans to build two offshore wind farms with... Continue Reading →
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