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If the industry has been capturing CO2 for decades, why all the innovation now? (OE) CO2 capture technology has been used for around a century in natural gas processing plants to separate out the commercially valuable methane. In the 1970s, that CO2 found purpose in advanced oil recovery. Now, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is... Continue Reading →
(OET) The oil and gas industry is always on the lookout for ways to boost production levels at offshore fields and gain access to stranded and untapped reserves that are not easy to bring online. Electrification of subsea production systems (SPS) offers the solution to these long-standing issues and constraints while also enabling decarbonization and... Continue Reading →
(OE) Ports in the UK such as Aberdeen serve as vital gateways to the offshore energy supply chain, providing services from surveying and construction to operational support, maintenance and decommissioning for oil and gas platforms and renewable energy installations all around the UK coastline. Vessels, moving 84.5 million tons of energy related cargo in 2022,... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it has started drilling the Pitu Oeste (RN) well today, which marks the resumption of the company's search for oil and gas in the Equatorial Margin, a region that stretches along the Brazilian coast from the state of Rio Grande do Norte to Amapá. The drilling of the... Continue Reading →
(CNN) The Biden administration issued long-awaited preliminary guidance Friday on its expansive clean hydrogen tax credit, tilted in favor of hydrogen produced from clean electricity. The hydrogen tax credit is one of the most generous subsidies contained in the Inflation Reduction Act — giving companies up to $3 for every kilogram of hydrogen produced. Along with other... Continue Reading →
(OET) Reusing existing pipelines for offshore hydrogen is the best solution that can be used, however, this does come with certain challenges, according to Bart Steuten, Product Development Manager at Strohm, Dutch thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) producer. Steuten discussed the production of hydrogen offshore, what we can expect in the future, the good sides of... Continue Reading →
(OW) Steelhead Americas, Vestas’ North American development arm, and Mitsubishi-owned Diamond Offshore Wind (DOW Wind) have signed operating agreements to build the first offshore wind farms in Louisiana waters. The State Mineral and Energy Board has approved a 6,162-acre property agreement for DOW Wind off the coast of Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes and a 59,653-acre... Continue Reading →
The ODN-II drillship, which will be used to drill the Pitu Oeste well, in the Potiguar Basin, is already heading towards the location, on the coast of Rio Grande do Norte. Drilling, scheduled to begin in December, will take place in block BM-POT-17. This will mark Petrobras' return to the Equatorial Margin, which stretches from... Continue Reading →
(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 →
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 →
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