Floating Power Plant (FPP) and partners Lundin Energy Norway, NOV-APL, Semco Maritime, Cefront Technologies and Aalborg University have completed a project aimed at using floating wind and wave power to support an offshore oil and gas facility. According to FPP, the project shows that using renewable energy can help the oil and gas industry reduce... Continue Reading →
Siemens Gamesa, Siemens Energy Team Up in Green Hydrogen Push
Siemens Gamesa and Siemens Energy have this week announced they'd work together on wind-to-hydrogen projects to help decarbonize the economy "to solve the climate crisis." The companies said they were contributing with their developments to an innovative solution that fully integrates an electrolyzer into an offshore wind turbine as a single synchronized system to directly... Continue Reading →
Equinor Selected for US’ Largest Offshore Wind Award
Norwegian energy company Equinor said it has been selected to provide New York State with offshore wind power in one of the United States' largest renewable energy procurements to date. Under the award, Equinor and partner BP will provide 1,260 megawatts (MW) of renewable offshore wind power from Empire Wind 2, and another 1,230 MW... Continue Reading →
VERÔNICA COELHO WILL ASSUME THE PRESIDENCY OF EQUINOR IN BRAZIL AS OF FEBRUARY
The company announced on Tuesday news of chances in the high command in Brazil. The executive Veronica Rezende Coelho will start as president of the company in Brazil as of February 1st. She will assume the role that is being performed on an interim basis by Leticia Andrade, who has been in command since the... Continue Reading →
What’s In Store for 2021? More Remote, More Data, More Autonomy
Late 2018, before net-zero targets had been agreed to by most western energy giants and nations, BP came out with a goal to reach 100% of subsea inspection by marine autonomous systems by 2025. It was a tangible goal then, and it’s one that might now be reached faster as remote and more “digitally” oriented... Continue Reading →
December’s Offshore Wind Turbine Index Sees an Increase of 636 Turbines
The Quest Offshore Wind Turbine Index (QOWTI), which tracks the Total Addressable Market for offshore wind*, shows 322 global projects for December a gain of 28 projects since September, comprising 17,793 individual turbine units representing a CapEx of $505.2 billion. Although Asia Pacific continues to lead Europe in total project count, Europe leads all regions... Continue Reading →
Amazon, Ørsted Ink Europe’s Largest Offshore Wind Power Purchase Deal
E-commerce and cloud computing giant Amazon has signed a 10-year corporate power purchase agreement with offshore wind firm Ørsted. In what has been described as Europe's largest ever offshore wind power purchase deal, Amazon has committed to offtake the output of 250MW from Ørsted's planned 900MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in Germany. Borkum... Continue Reading →
2020 Has Been a Big Year for US Offshore Wind
This has certainly been an active year for offshore wind, both in the U.S. and globally. Looking at the U.S. in particular, the East Coast is certainly giving cause for real optimism with a clear pipeline of state procurement targets indicating 12 gigawatts installed by 2030 and 29.1 gigawatts total installed by 2035. That means... Continue Reading →
Italian oil & gas major buys into world’s largest offshore wind farm
Eni has entered into agreements with Equinor and SSE Renewables to acquire 10 per cent stake in Dogger Bank A and B from each, which will lead to a shareholding setup of SSE and Equinor each owning 40 per cent and Eni holding 20 per cent in the first two phases of what will become... Continue Reading →
Petrobras, Equinor stake out opposite renewables strategies in Brazil
(Reuters) - Petrobras does not expect to invest in renewables over the next five years, Chief Executive Roberto Castello Branco said on Tuesday, adding that the Brazilian state-controlled company will instead put money into technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of its oil extraction activities. Castello Branco has repeatedly said Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the... Continue Reading →