(OET) As rig activity stood out in multiple regions during 2022, Westwood Global Energy, an energy market research and consultancy firm, believes that there is no reason to expect anything different in 2023 while forecasting global marketed offshore rig utilisation to average 95 per cent this year with day rates getting a further increase. Westwood outlined... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Imports of renewable hydrogen into the European Union by 2030 will be competitively priced compared with domestically produced clean hydrogen, a future energy source to replace fossil fuels, a study by Aurora Energy said on Tuesday. In the RePowerEU policy, lawmakers have assumed that hydrogen usage in the bloc will reach 20 million... Continue Reading →
Philip Lewis, Contributor (OE) The drivers for global offshore wind growth look good for 2023. Global offshore wind is forecast to grow from over 60 GW at the end of 2022 to 240 GW by 2030 and over 410 GW by 2035. But the sunny outlook must be balanced with some building dark clouds. As we... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Australia on Monday opened up its first zone for developing offshore wind farms in a region off its southern coast, looking to jumpstart a new industry to help achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. As expected, the government selected the Gippsland coast off the state of Victoria for the first offshore wind power zone, where an A$9... Continue Reading →
(OET) Westwood Global Energy, an energy market research and consultancy firm, has outlined that 2022 will have the highest floating production system (FPS) throughput capacity sanctioned since 2010, despite major project delays caused by multiple factors, including the supply chain inflationary pressure, which remains a concern in the future as well. Within its review of the... Continue Reading →
As we enter the final month of 2022, a review of the floating production system (FPS) market revealed that some E&Ps have been bold with investments in the development of their oil and gas (O&G) reserves, with a total of 1.9 mmboepd (1.3 mmbpd of oil and 3.8 bcfd of gas) of FPS throughput capacity... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - BP chief executive Bernard Looney is betting on hydrogen to power future low-carbon businesses as the governments of major economies stump up cash to develop the fuel to decarbonise. Low-carbon hydrogen already has a big fan-base and is forecast to play a major role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from heavy industries and... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Construction is set to begin on one of Australia's biggest wind farms after its developers secured funding in a unique deal for the A$2 billion ($1.3 billion) first stage of the project after years of delays. The first stage of the Golden Plains project, being developed by privately owned TagEnergy, involves a 756-megawatt... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Spain's Acciona SA (ANA.MC) announced plans on Monday to build a wind farm worth A$2 billion ($1.34 billion) in Australia, nearly doubling its investment and generation capacity at a site in the northeastern state of Queensland. The 1,000-megawatt (MW) Herries Range wind farm will be built at the MacIntyre Wind Precinct, where the renewable energy... Continue Reading →
(TN) Australian renewable green energy developer Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) and Enel's global renewable energy arm, Enel Green Power S.p.A. (EGP), today announced that they will partner to explore the co-development of the green hydrogen value chain, with an initial focus on Latin America and Australia. FFI and EGP share a common view on the... Continue Reading →
