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Norway's Green Yard Kleven has completed and delivered two retrofit projects for the Brazilian shipowner Oceanica. Oceanicasub Vlll and Oceanicasub lX have been rebuilt from offshore supply vessels to advanced offshore vessels for ROV- and crane operations. "Both rebuilding projects were largely based on reused equipment and focused on sustainability at the request of the... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Dutch lender ING (INGA.AS) on Tuesday said it had again toughened its lending policy to the oil and gas sector, restricting finance to clients engaged in commodity or trade finance and "midstream" infrastructure. ING, a leading provider of commodity finance, said it was working on a methodology to reduce the volumes of traded oil and... Continue Reading →
German renewable energy company RWE has selected Siemens Gamesa's offshore wind turbines with recyclable blades for its Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK. Siemens Gamesa said it would supply 44 SG 14-222 DD (14MW) wind turbines with 132 recyclable blades. The order comes after, in 2022, RWE became the first commercial, large-scale offshore developer to install... Continue Reading →
Australia's Woodside Energy is on track to make a final investment decision this year on the Trion offshore oil project, which would inaugurate production in the deep waters of the country's Gulf of Mexico. [BHP Petroleum, now part of Woodside] partnered in 2017 with state-oil company Pemex, which discovered Trion's reserves five years earlier. The deal... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Peru's state-owned oil company Petroperu signed a license agreement on Tuesday to return to producing crude oil, starting at one of the country's largest oil blocks, with plans to invest $638 million in the site to develop new wells. Petroperu will take over Block 192, located in the Amazon near the border with... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - State oil company Pemex promised late last year that it would stop burning natural gas from a major field in southeast Mexico by mid-January, amid mounting pressure to improve its poor environmental record. But satellite data analyzed by scientists exclusively for Reuters - as well as a visit by reporters to the site... Continue Reading →
(OW) The Governor of Maine’s Energy Office has released the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap, a stakeholder-driven comprehensive plan that is said to offer detailed strategies for Maine to realize economic, energy, and climate benefits from offshore wind, in conjunction with communities, fisheries, and wildlife of the Gulf of Maine. The Roadmap was developed over 18... Continue Reading →
Petrobras set a record in CO2 capture, use and geological storage (the so-called Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage - CCUS) in 2022, reaching the mark of 10.6 million reinjected tons (equivalent to 5.8 billion m³ of CO2 ). For comparison purposes, this portion corresponds to 27% by volume of the total gas reinjected in our... Continue Reading →
Norway's METCentre, a floating wind test center, has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Portuguese offshore wind player WavEC. WavEC provides commercial services for wind farm developers and is a shareholder of the Aguçadoura test site, which has been a central testing area in the development of offshore renewable technologies. The MOU was... Continue Reading →
(OE) DNV said Monday it was launching the second phase of H2Pipe, a joint industry project (JIP) aiming to develop a new code for the design, re-qualification, construction, and operation of offshore pipelines to transport hydrogen—either pure or blended with natural gas. DNV’s Hydrogen Forecast to 2050 anticipates that over 50% of hydrogen pipelines globally... Continue Reading →
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