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Following reports that Singapore’s Keppel Corporation and Sembcorp Marine are in talks to merge their offshore and marine businesses, the two players have now inked non-binding agreements related to the proposed combination in response to dramatic changes in the sectors. In a statement on Thursday, Keppel said it has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)... Continue Reading →
Countries worldwide should make more offshore areas available for wind farms than they do currently if they want to fulfil their climate ambitions, the chief executive of Norwegian oil firm Equinor told Reuters. Like other European oil majors, Equinor is developing a portfolio of renewable projects while continuing to produce oil and gas, with offshore... Continue Reading →
Wind power could make it possible to produce hydrogen without emitting greenhouse gases as cheaply as is currently feasible with fossil fuel energy by 2030, turbine maker Siemens Gamesa said in a white paper released on Wednesday. Policymakers see green hydrogen, which is made with renewable power without emitting carbon, as a vital tool to... Continue Reading →
Firjan (Rio de Janeiro Industrial Federation) believes that the state of Rio needs to keep new energy opportunities on the radar, taking advantage of the synergies between the existing offshore markets and the potential of offshore wind projects. In addition to the similarity of environment, labor skills have the potential to transition between operations and... Continue Reading →
The subsea industry must act now to capitalize on the energy transition as the road to net zero is already underway and companies need to meet the change of pace required, according to Tom Heggarty, principal analyst in Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition Practice. Opportunities include facilitating the growth of the offshore wind market by supporting the installation of turbines, the... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Global investment in energy transition technologies needs to more than double over the next few decades to significantly reduce the cost of renewables, which are set to provide around 60% of the world’s energy needs by 2030, industry officials say. A breakthrough in commercial technology to decarbonise projects could reduce both project time and... Continue Reading →
According to new research from Oxford Brookes University, vertical offshore wind turbines are much more efficient in large-scale wind farms than conventional turbines, and when used in pairs, vertical turbines can boost each other's output by up to 15%. A research team from the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (ECM) at Oxford Brookes led... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Europe's biggest wind power group Iberdrola (IBE.MC) reaffirmed its 2021 growth outlook on Wednesday after reporting rising quarterly earnings supported by rapid building of renewable energy plants and investments in networks. Buoyed by a global shift towards the low-carbon energy sources it has been investing in for two decades, northern Spain-based Iberdrola plans to almost triple... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Renewable energy grew at its fastest pace in two decades last year, led by China, and will continue to grow in the next two years, a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed on Tuesday. New renewable energy capacity in 2020 rose by 45% to 280 gigawatts (GW) last year, the largest year-on-year... Continue Reading →
Subsea 7 has reported an adjusted EBITDA increase of 50 per cent in the first quarter of 2021, to $102 million, compared to $68 million from the same period in 2020. According to Subsea 7, the mentioned boost is driven by progress on Subsea and Conventional projects, high utilization of the PLSVs, and activities on... Continue Reading →
