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(Reuters) - Portugal's government said on Friday it was keen to create a cluster of wind farms off its Atlantic Ocean coast that could eventually reach a total capacity of around 10 gigawatts (GW). Lisbon last week approved four areas in the ocean where offshore wind farms can be installed, moving a step closer to... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) Fuinneamh Sceirde Teoranta (FST), a joint venture owned by Corio Generation and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, has submitted a consent application for Sceirde Rocks Windfarm to Ireland’s planning authority, An Bord Pleanála. The developer says the project is the first offshore wind farm proposed for Ireland’s west coast as the five other projects currently... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is currently conducting consultation with the offshore wind market on the design of the state’s sixth solicitation which could be launched in the first quarter of 2026. The consultation primarily concerns the possibility of procuring “generation-only” projects where the (offshore) grid connections would be... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will initiate an environmental review of the Vineyard Mid-Atlantic offshore wind lease area, located offshore New York and New Jersey and owned by Vineyard Offshore (Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners), which plans to build its Excelsior Wind project there. The Vineyard Mid-Atlantic area is in one of the... Continue Reading →
(offshoreWIND.biz) Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed into law the bill recently passed by the Brazilian Senate that establishes regulations on allocating and permitting offshore wind development areas. The Brazilian president has vetoed provisions related to fossil fuels in the final version of the legislation which were added while the bill was... Continue Reading →
(oilprice.com) TotalEnergies will start drilling for oil and gas in Block 64 offshore Suriname in May, a company executive told Reuters this week, saying the company was currently tallying the final tab for the project and organizing the future well operations. TotalEnergies has a 40% stake in Block 64, which it shares with QatarEnergy and Malaysia’s Petronas, both with... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Portugal's government has approved four areas in the Atlantic Ocean where offshore wind farms can be installed, moving a step closer to launching the first licensing auction of offshore capacity, which it plans this year. Two of the areas are off the coast of Viana do Castelo in northern Portugal, one near the port... Continue Reading →
- PRIO S.A. (“Company” or “PRIO”) (B3: PRIO3), following best practices incorporate governance and transparency, informs its preliminary and non-audited Operational Data for the month of December. Key: (1) In the Polvo and Tubarão Martelo cluster, production was affected by the shutdown of wells TBMT-10H and TBMT-4H due to the failure of the Submerged Centrifugal... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) Isle of Man-headquartered oil and gas company Challenger Energy Group (CEG) is making progress in setting the stage to embark on a formal farm-out process later this year for a shallow water exploration block off the coast of Uruguay. As the firm is also expected to make up its mind about assets in Trinidad and... Continue Reading →
(OE) A new report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) outlines recommendations that could increase the recycling and reuse of decommissioned wind energy equipment and materials to create a more circular economy and sustainable supply chain. The research reveals that existing U.S. infrastructure could process 90% of the mass of decommissioned wind turbines. However,... Continue Reading →
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