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(TN) On June 29th and 30th, Transpetro carried out the first oil transfer operation between ships (Ship to Ship) at the Port of Itaqui, in Maranhão. The company was already transshipping diesel and gasoline at the São Luís Terminal. With the operation, the Port of Itaqui returns to handling oil after 40 years, which demonstrates... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Brazil's Eletrobras, Latin America's largest utility, signed a memorandum of understanding with infrastructure company Prumo to produce green hydrogen in a port in Rio de Janeiro, which could lead to development of a pilot plant, the two firms said. The memorandum, signed on Wednesday at an event in Rio, also opens the door... Continue Reading →
(OE) Sweden-based construction and development company Skanska has signed the final contract award, worth $612 million, for the upgrade of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT) in New York, which will serve as an offshore wind hub. The project will transform the SBMT into one of the largest dedicated offshore wind ports in the United... Continue Reading →
(OE) BW Ideol has unveiled its standardized foundation for floating offshore wind, ready for mass production to accommodate the needs of the growing sector. With over 22 GW already awarded in Scotland, around 8 GW in the USA, and several GW currently being awarded or in the tendering phase elsewhere in the world, floating wind... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) Californian floating wind technology developer, Aikido Technologies, will test a scaled prototype of its technology, said to be the world’s first upending semi-submersible platform, through a project named Aikido One. Aikido Technologies has awarded a contract for the fabrication of a 1:4 scale, 100 kW floating wind platform to Chet Morrison Contractors (Morrison), a... Continue Reading →
(TN) EIG, a leading American global fund in the energy and infrastructure sectors, and Lake Capital Investimentos, the resource management division of Lakeshore Partners, focused on the energy and infrastructure sectors, announced to the market that they have completed the acquisition of Ocyan Partipações S.A. ( "Ocyan" or "Company"), a Brazilian provider of solutions for... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) -- Macquarie Asset Management is making a $50 billion bet on offshore wind after sidestepping a perfect storm of low power prices and cost inflation that forced many competitors to walk away. Corio Generation Ltd., the fully owned offshore wind unit of the Australian financial giant, along with partners including TotalEnergies SE, plans to... Continue Reading →
(epbr) In the opinion of Corio Generation's global CEO, Jonathan Cole, Brazil can learn from the challenges faced by offshore wind farms around the world, which have suffered from cancellations and delays of some projects and the failure of auctions, in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom. The company hopes to... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWind.biz) Corio Generation and Brazilian port developer Prumo have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore using the Port of Açu, north of Rio de Janeiro State, for the deployment of Corio’s future offshore wind projects. Under the agreement, the two companies will explore using the Port of Açu as a strategic base for... Continue Reading →
The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) will begin to evaluate the regulation of parameters for the selection of areas destined for offshore wind generation projects, according to the ministry's Secretary of Energy Transition and Planning, Thiago Barral. The executive also said that the ministry will discuss criteria so that the auctions for areas considers... Continue Reading →
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