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Press Release Swedish floating windfarm developer Hexicon AB announced it has agreed to join forces with the leading South African wind developer Genesis Eco-Energy Developments in order to explore the development of offshore wind. The development programme will be driven via a joint venture company in South Africa that will be named GenesisHexicon (Pty) Ltd.... Continue Reading →
French energy major Total has joined a project to explore the potential of powering offshore oil and gas platforms with floating wind and wave energy. The O/G Decarb innovation project will examine the possibility of using a combined wind and wave technology on a floating foundation to store energy that can convert electricity into hydrogen... Continue Reading →
French energy major Total said on Thursday that it had reached an agreement with renewables energy developer Simply Blue Energy to acquire 80% of the Erebus floating wind project in the Celtic Sea. Total, which did not disclose the value of the deal, has said it plans to invest up to $2 billion annually to... Continue Reading →
Mar 4, 2020 Petrobras decided to suspend the pilot project for offshore wind generation in the Ubarana field, in the Potiguar Basin, on the coast of Rio Grande do Norte. The decision was communicated to Ibama, responsible for the environmental licensing of the project, at the end of January. In a letter sent to the... Continue Reading →
February 7, 2020 Brazil will receive 10% of the Norwegian oil company's investments in the next two years Equinor plans to drill five high-impact exploratory wells in Brazil over the next two years, the company's vice president and chief financial officer, Lars Christian Bacher, said on Thursday during a conference call with analysts. High-impact wells... Continue Reading →
Offshore wind will constitute 25% of total wind demand in 2028, up from 10% in 2019 and will narrow the gap with offshore upstream oil and gas in terms of capital expenditure deployment, said the analyst firm Wood Mackenzie. The possibility of offshore wind becoming cheaper than coal, gas and nuclear in most major countries... Continue Reading →
Orsted, the world's largest offshore wind farm developer, exceeded its own full-year core profit expectations on Thursday on the back of strong generation from its wind farms but said it expected this year's result to be slightly lower. Its 2019 earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) excluding new partnerships increased by 17% to... Continue Reading →
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