(offshoreWIND.biz) Norway’s Deep Wind Offshore has submitted an application for an area lease to develop one floating and one fixed-bottom offshore wind project along the Chilean coastline. The Chilean government has set a target of 60 per cent of the country’s electricity to be generated from renewable sources by 2030. By 2040, the annual electricity... Continue Reading →
Chevron beats quarterly profit expectations on higher oil output
(Reuters) - Chevron Corp beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter profit on Friday, helped by higher oil and gas output, but its earnings fell from a year ago. The U.S. company, whose proposed $53-billion takeover of Hess has been delayed due to a challenge by rivals Exxon and CNOOC Ltd , reported an adjusted profit of $4.53 billion, compared to... Continue Reading →
RWE Gets Clearance for 100MW Electrolyzer for OW-to-Hydrogen Production
(OE) RWE has secured the necessary construction and environmental permits to build a 100 MW electrolyzer that would enable green hydrogen production as part of system integration plans associated with the 795 MW OranjeWind offshore wind project in the Dutch North Sea. The 100 MW electrolyzer is planned to be built at Eemshaven, near the... Continue Reading →
Exxon’s $8.6 billion profit beats as volume offsets price weakness
(Reuters) - Exxon Mobil on Friday beat Wall Street's third quarter profit estimate, boosted by strong oil output in its first full quarter that includes volumes from U.S. shale producer Pioneer Natural Resources. Oil industry earnings have been squeezed this year by slowing demand and weak margins on gasoline and diesel. But Exxon's year-over-year profit fell 5%,... Continue Reading →
TotalEnergies Q3 income hits three-year low as refining margins plunge
(Reuters) - French oil major TotalEnergies third-quarter profit hit a three-year low of $4.1 billion on Thursday, slightly missing expectations as refining margins and upstream outages dragged down earnings. Adjusted net income was down 37% from a year earlier and 12.7% lower from the previous quarter's $4.7 billion. The result just missed analyst expectations of $4.2 billion. Adjusted... Continue Reading →
RWE Cleared to Begin Construction on Denmark’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm in Spring 2025
(offshoreWIND.biz) The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has granted RWE the offshore construction permit for its Thor offshore wind farm, enabling RWE to begin construction at sea in spring 2025. RWE said that good progress is already being made on land, with the laying of cables and the construction of an onshore substation in the municipality... Continue Reading →
Floating Wind and the Taming of Subsea Spaghetti
Wendy Laursen, Contributing Writer (oedigital.com) Preparing for industrialization, the floating offshore wind industry is tackling its unique mooring and cabling challenges. The idea of keeping floating offshore wind platforms in place using dynamic positioning has been considered. The trouble is: it could take up to 80% of the electricity generated by the turbine to do it.... Continue Reading →
Shell’s $6 billion profit smashes forecasts as LNG offsets weak refining
(Reuters) - Shell reported on Thursday third-quarter profits of $6 billion that exceeded forecasts by 12% as higher liquefied natural gas (LNG) sales offset a sharp drop in oil refining and trading results. The results, together with a drop in debt and strong cash flow, could lift investor confidence in CEO Wael Sawan's efforts to boost... Continue Reading →
FPSO Marechal Duque de Caxias begins production in the pre-salt layer
The FPSO Marechal Duque de Caxias (Mero 3) began producing oil and gas this Wednesday, October 30, in the Mero field, Libra block, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin. The unit has the capacity to produce up to 180 thousand barrels of oil and compress up to 12 million cubic meters of gas,... Continue Reading →
Woods Hole unveils DeepCLiDAR buoys to assist offshore wind development
(OM) The Woods Hole Group says it has three DeepCLiDAR buoy systems ready for deployment to conduct wind resource assessments, metocean and marine environmental measurements. It also reports that additional buoys are under construction. With the Atlantic Wind Lease Sale 11 in the US Gulf of Maine Outer Continental Shelf scheduled for Oct. 29, 2024,... Continue Reading →