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The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has issued a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the SouthCoast Wind project offshore Massachusetts, the 2.4 GW offshore wind project formerly known as Mayflower Wind, developed by a joint venture between Shell and Ocean Winds. BOEM will open a 45-day public comment period for the DEIS... Continue Reading →
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, a 50:50 US partnership between Shell and EDF Renewables, has joined the Northeast Clean Hydrogen Hub, a major multi-state initiative in the US that plans to develop a proposal to become one of up to 10 regional clean hydrogen hubs in the country. The developer of a 1.5 GW offshore wind project in... Continue Reading →
Talos Energy Inc., a U.S.-based offshore oil and gas producer, has completed its previously announced acquisition of EnVen Energy Corporation ("EnVen"). Talos, which owns oilfields in both the U.S. side and the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico, first said in September 2022, that it would buy EnVen, a private operator in the deepwater... Continue Reading →
(Reuters Breakingviews) - Heated trade tensions could cool if the United States and the European Union make concessions on hydrogen. Washington’s Inflation Reduction Act includes subsidies that could slash the cost of the element’s sustainably produced “green” version by 2030. If the EU can negotiate better access to America’s production chain while attractively managing its future import... Continue Reading →
U.S. maritime and logistics company Crowley said it has made a deal that could see it lease and develop an offshore wind terminal in Louisiana's Port Fourchon. The Right of First Refusal agreement was reached during Wednesday’s Greater Lafourche Port Commission (GLPC) Board Meeting in Cut Off, La. The more than 40-acre site, encompassing over... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Dominion Energy Inc's (D.N) offshore Virginia wind farm is "on track and on budget," and recently entered a critical phase of the environmental review process for the project, executives of the electric utility told investors on Wednesday. A roughly month-long public comment period on the environmental impact study of the 2.6 gigawatt project, which is... Continue Reading →
General Electric recently filed a plan to build two new offshore wind manufacturing facilities in New York if it wins enough orders from companies in the state’s ongoing solicitation for up to 4.6 GW of offshore wind.GE proposed building the factories with Carver Companies at their Port of Coeymans site. The company said that, should... Continue Reading →
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has outlined in a recent report that the proven reserves of natural gas reported by operators established a new record in the United States in 2021, while proven U.S. reserves of oil increased but did not quite return to pre-pandemic levels. EIA highlighted in a recently released Proved Reserves of... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Exxon Mobil Corp posted a $56 billion net profit for 2022, the company said on Tuesday, taking home about $6.3 million per hour last year, and setting not only a company record but a historic high for the Western oil industry. Oil majors are expected to break their own annual records on high prices and... Continue Reading →
Philip Lewis, Contributor (OE) In recent State of the Port address, the first held since 2020, the Port of Long Beach’s Executive Director David Cordero discussed the port’s plan to support California’s emerging floating wind industry. The Port of Long Beach has not yet been identified as a marshalling port for any one project. However, under its Zero Emissions,... Continue Reading →
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