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(Reuters) - Renewables developer Cerluean Winds and Ping Petroleum UK have signed an agreement to create an offshore oil facility powered by wind energy in Britain, the companies said on Tuesday. Under the agreement, the production unit at Ping Petroleum’s Avalon site in the UK's North Sea will be powered by a floating offshore wind... Continue Reading →
(CPG) Rio Grande do Sul is the Brazilian state with the highest number of projects registered for the construction of parks for the production of offshore wind energy. According to information released by GZH Economia, Rio Grande do Sul currently stands out as the Brazilian state with the highest concentration of companies interested in installing... Continue Reading →
(PN) Petrobras' long-awaited exploratory program in Foz do Amazonas, on the Brazilian Equatorial Margin, should finally get off the ground in the coming months. According to the company's director of exploration and production, Fernando Borges, the first drilling in the area should take place in November, in a water depth of 2,800 meters. “The licensing... Continue Reading →
(Valor) Until the month of April, the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) received requests for environmental licensing for 54 projects for offshore wind power generation, with a total capacity of 133.3 gigawatts (GW) of power. The total energy to be generated in the projects corresponds to almost 70% of the... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Licensing rights for 30 oil and gas blocks in the Democratic Republic of Congo went up for auction on Thursday, opening parts of the world's second-biggest rainforest to drilling that could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, jeopardising climate goals to tame global warming. President Felix Tshisekedi presided over the launch... Continue Reading →
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday announced a decision to add climate provisions to a budget reconciliation legislation that is expected to provide $369 billion in energy and climate investments. The package is said to promote zero and low carbon energy and support domestic production of offshore oil and... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Crude oil spilling from one of state-run PDVSA's joint ventures has hit an environmentally sensitive area at Venezuela's eastern region, three sources close to the operations said on Tuesday. Oil spills and gas leaks have become frequent in recent years in Venezuela, where lack of investment and delayed maintenance have contributed to the deterioration... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday said it had identified 700,000 acres for possible offshore wind energy development in the Gulf of Mexico, seeking to expand a growing clean energy industry to a major U.S. oil and gas hub. It also said President Joe Biden would direct his Interior Department to move ahead with... Continue Reading →
Green energy infrastructure developer Cerulean Winds has revealed it will bid for four seabed lease sites with a combined capacity of 6 GW of floating wind to decarbonise the UK’s oil and gas sector under Crown Estate Scotland’s Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas (INTOG) leasing round. This scale will remove more emissions quickly, keep... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo will offer 27 oil blocks and three gas blocks, nearly double as many as previously planned, in a licensing round next week, the hydrocarbons ministry said on Monday. Congo, a leading miner of copper, cobalt, gold and diamonds, has long aimed to boost its oil sector and is believed... Continue Reading →
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