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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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 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 →
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 →
Italian oilfield services firm Saipem, and Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor are teaming up to develop a floating solar panel park solution for near coastal applications and rough weather conditions. According to a statement by Saipem, the technology will be based on the in-house developed concept by offshore rig designer Moss Maritime, part of... 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 →
March 13, 2020 Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras announces that it has started the disclosure stage for this opportunity (teaser) in relation to the joint sale of all its shares in the wind farms Mangue Seco 3 and Mangue Seco 4, owners of the wind power generation plants with the same names. Petrobras holds a... Continue Reading →
