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(MTR) This week, dozens of companies are expected to compete for the right to lease the first commercial wind power sites off the coast of California in a federal online auction that could kick-start the state’s next clean energy boom. Collectively, the winners will pay at least tens of millions of dollars for exclusive rights to submit... Continue Reading →
KBR has won a contract to provide engineering services for an offshore energy storage project for CrossWind, a joint venture (JV) between Shell and Dutch utility company, Eneco. KBR will perform a front-end engineering design of the baseload power hub (BLPH) for the Hollandse Kust (north) wind farm located offshore the Netherlands. "KBR and Shell... Continue Reading →
(RN) Floating wind turbines are crucial to the future of offshore wind, and to bring energy costs down to a competitive level, they require radically different thinking. French company Eolink is starting to build a full-scale demonstrator of its innovative pyramid-shaped floating wind turbine, which reduces materials and weight by more than 30%, and promises... Continue Reading →
SSE Renewables has informed that 75% of the jacket foundation substructures have been installed at the Seagreen offshore wind farm site. SSE Renewables is developing the wind farm in partnership with the French firm TotalEnergies. "We’re celebrating a new milestone at Seagreen, our joint venture wind farm project with TotalEnergies. 75% of the jacket foundation... 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 →
(OE) The Dutch government on Friday said it would appoint gas grid operator Gasunie to oversee plans to develop a hydrogen network in the North Sea, Energy Minister Rob Jetten said in a letter to parliament. The Dutch government is due on Dec. 8 to debate in parliament over ambitious plans to shift much of... Continue Reading →
Sweden-based Maha Energy has signed a binding term sheet regarding a business combination with DBO 2.0 S.A. (“DBO”) for a consideration of 36,775,410 new shares in Maha. According to Maha, DBO is a private upstream oil and gas company focusing on mature offshore fields in Brazil formed in 2017. The company says that DBO has... Continue Reading →
The director of production development at Petrobras, João Henrique Rittershaussen, declared that the tender for contracting the P-81, foreseen for the Sergipe Aguas Profundas project (SEAP 1), will be launched in the coming months. This time, the bidding will gain a new format compared to the previous process and will be carried out under the... Continue Reading →
Total production for October was 4.180 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), of which 3.245 million barrels of oil per day (bbl/d) and 148.747 million cubic meters of natural gas per day (m3/d ). In oil, there was an increase of 3.1% compared to the previous month and 16.8% compared to October 2021.... Continue Reading →
(OET) Australia’s oil and gas company Karoon Energy has completed the drilling of two wells at a field, located in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. The first oil from this field, which will be developed as a subsea tie-back, is slated for the first quarter of 2022. Karoon hired a rig in April 2021 to perform well... Continue Reading →
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