Royal Dutch Shell PLC is ready to start negotiating with potential clients the sale of future solar power on Brazil’s free energy market from its first farms due to start operating in 2023, Shell’s solar business development manager for Latin America said. In a telephone interview on Monday, Maria Gabriela da Rocha said the startup... Continue Reading →
Eni Splits Business into Renewables and Oil & Gas
Italian oil major Eni said on Thursday it was creating a division to focus on renewable energy, as part of a corporate reorganization. The overhaul, which Reuters reported on Wednesday, follows industry-wide upheaval as the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted oil markets and sapped the earnings of oil and gas companies. Continue reading
Shell and partners invest US $ 700 million in the first thermal plant to use pre-salt natural gas
June 2, 2020 Despite the economic crisis resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, Anglo-Dutch Shell and its partners decided to keep US $ 700 million in investments to set up a thermoelectric plant powered by natural gas from the pre-salt layer in Macaé, in the North of the State of Rio de Janeiro. The plant will... Continue Reading →
Renewable energy transition to accelerate on drop in power demand
The global plunge in electricity demand will drag on long after nations lift stay-at-home orders, leading to the biggest annual drop since the Great Depression and fundamentally reshaping power markets. As economies struggle to recover, worldwide electricity consumption will decline 5% in 2020, the most in more than eight decades, according to the International Energy... Continue Reading →
OFFSHORE FLOATING WIND ENERGY STARTS MOVING INTO HIGH GEAR
The enormous potential that offshore wind energy may be able to offer has been making headlines around the world. In late 2019 the Norwegian energy giant Equinor confirmed that its massive investment in the 88 MW Hywind Tampen Offshore Floating Wind (OFW) farm was going ahead. A few days later the International Energy Agency, IEA,... Continue Reading →
HEXICON and GENESIS ECO-ENERGY DEVELOPMENTS join forces for South African offshore wind market exploration
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 →
Petrobras on wind farm sales
May 04, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the press release disclosed on January 31 , 2020, announces the beginning of the binding phase regarding the sale of all of its shares in the companies Eólica Mangue Seco 1 and Eólica Mangue Seco 2, owners of wind farm generation plants. The company... Continue Reading →
Total to examine if O&G platforms can run on renewable energy
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 →
Keppel O&M Says Pivot to Gas, Renewables Pays Off
Keppel Offshore & Marine, an offshore construction subsidiary of Singapore's Keppel Corp, expects challenging conditions ahead due to the drop in oil prices but says its business diversification into gas and renewables has paid off. The company has traditionally been called an "offshore rig builder" as this was the Keppel O&M's core business in the... Continue Reading →
DESPITE THE LOW OIL PRICE, PETROBRAS STRENGTHENS ITS INTEREST IN FOCUSING ON E&P AND MAINTAINS DISINVESTMENTS
Apr 16, 2020 The storm that has come in the oil and gas sector will not change Petrobras' direction. Despite the strong devaluation of the price of a barrel of oil, the president of the state-owned company, Roberto Castello Branco, guaranteed that the company will not change its position to focus its efforts on exploration... Continue Reading →