(OET) Yinson Production, an offshore production business arm of Malaysia’s Yinson Holdings, has made a move to slash its carbon footprint by making a strategic investment in Ionada, in recognition of the potential the firm’s carbon capture technology holds as a tool to decarbonize FPSO operations and lead to emissions reduction in the hard-to-abate industries.... Continue Reading →
Chevron Boosts Project Spending by 11% for 2024
(Reuters) Oil major Chevron Corp said on Wednesday that it expects to spend between $18.5 billion and $19.5 billion next year on new oil and gas projects, an 11% increase on this year. Its 2024 budget and that of rival ExxonMobil reflect the industry's continuing rebound after pandemic-influenced pullbacks, recent acquisitions and carbon reduction initiatives. Exxon plans... Continue Reading →
Vineyard Wind to Feed First Power Into Massachusetts Grid by Year-End
(OW) Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have installed the first five GE Haliade-X turbines at the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project and are preparing to deliver first power from their wind farm to the electric grid in Massachusetts, the US. Once energized in the coming weeks, Vineyard Wind 1, the first large-scale offshore wind... Continue Reading →
US to release hydrogen subsidy guidance after COP28
(Reuters) - The U.S. will release guidance for how hydrogen producers can secure billions of dollars of subsidies embedded in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act sometime this year after the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, U.S. energy advisor John Podesta told Reuters on Wednesday. Industry has been waiting anxiously for the guidance from the U.S. Treasury Department for months,... Continue Reading →
Exxon’s CEO sets ambitious agenda on tight timeline
(Reuters) - Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) CEO Darren Woods' first five years at the oil company were marred by missed oil production targets, an investor rebellion and the company's biggest-ever financial loss. Redemption came this year when - aided by a share price pumped up by high oil prices - he clinched a $60 billion deal to buy shale rival... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies at COP28 says renewables the way to phase out fossil fuels
(Reuters) - TotalEnergies's (TTEF.PA) CEO gave his backing to an international pledge to triple renewable energy generation at the COP28 climate summit, calling it necessary to phase out fossil fuels and decarbonise. "It's the right way to frame the object, tripling renewables, because if we don't do that, there's no way to phase out fossil energy," Patrick Pouyanne told... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies and Petrobras join forces to accelerate the detection and reduction of methane emissions
As part of the commitment to identify, measure and reduce methane emissions linked to their activities, TotalEnergies and Petrobras began a collaboration to carry out an evaluation campaign using drone methane measurement technology on FPSO P-70, dedicated to production from the Atapu field, located in the Santos basin in Brazil. In 2022, TotalEnergies set ambitious... Continue Reading →
Vattenfall, BASF to Team Up on German Offshore Wind Farms
Vattenfall and BASF are in exclusive discussions to partner on the Nordlicht 1 and 2 offshore wind farms in Germany through a sale of 49 per cent of the project shares to BASF. To formally express their joint ambition, the two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The signing of the transaction is... Continue Reading →
Governments take action to keep offshore wind projects on track
(Reuters) - Governments have decided to pay up to revive offshore wind farm developments after rising costs put at risk multiple projects that are needed to help them cut emissions and reach climate targets. Many countries are relying on a huge and rapid build-out of offshore wind farms which have high upfront costs but over... Continue Reading →
MOU signed between BNDES and the World Bank for development of Green Hydrogen projects
The MOU was signed this Saturday morning that will allow joint investments by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and the World Bank in the low-carbon hydrogen value chain. According to the document, the focus will be on carbon capture projects; electrolysers and associated equipment; shared logistics and infrastructure in hubs focused... Continue Reading →