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(OW) ESB and Ørsted have signed an agreement to jointly develop a portfolio of up to 5 GW of offshore wind and complementary green hydrogen projects in Ireland, with the first of these offshore wind projects expected to compete in the next Irish auction, ORESS 2.1. The agreement also marks Ørsted’s entry into the Irish... Continue Reading →
Italian oilfield services provider Saipem has completed works for the subsea production network for Azule Energy’s Agogo field development project offshore Angola. Saipem reported on 2 June that its team had completed the subsea production network for the Early Phase 2 development of the Agogo field on behalf of the joint venture between BP and Eni. The scope... Continue Reading →
(OW) Subsea 7, in collaboration with OneSea Energy, has secured GBP 150,000 (around USD 187,000) in funding from the Scottish government to investigate pairing a large-scale floating hydrogen production system with a floating wind farm offshore Scotland. The funding was awarded as part of the Hydrogen Innovation Scheme under which a total of 32 projects... Continue Reading →
Spanish renewable energy company Iberdrola said this week it was making progress in the construction of Vineyard Wind I, the largest commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the United States, with the receipt of the first shipment of components for the 62 wind turbines that will make up the farm at the port of New Bedford. ... Continue Reading →
(PN) The Peregrino field, in the Campos Basin, reached a production of 110,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) this year, the limit of the FPSO which operates in this field. Peregrino is operated by Equinor (60%), which has Sinochem (40%) as a partner in the field. It is Equinor's first asset in Brazil and... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, regarding the pieces of news released in the media, confirms that it met with executives from the Apollo fund and Adnoc, in which occasion it discussed Petrobras' position in the Brazilian petrochemical sector, which is currently under analysis as part of the preparation of its Strategic Plan 2024-28. The company... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale formation could produce more than 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil by 2030, consultancy Rystad Energy said on Wednesday, but cautioned this relied on the country solving transport capacity bottlenecks. This could see the formation, the size of Belgium located in Argentina's vast Patagonian region, nearly... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that its Board of Directors approved yesterday the revision of the strategic elements for the 2024-2028 Strategic Plan (2024-28 SP), as well as the low carbon CAPEX driver for the range between 6% and 15% of total CAPEX for the first five years of the new Plan, in compliance... Continue Reading →
(REuters) Brazil's Petrobras may look abroad for future growth, two sources with knowledge of the state-run firm's plans told Reuters, after environmental regulators dashed its hopes of exploring near the Amazon River where it had aimed to make its first major domestic oil discovery in over a decade. Petroleo Brasileiro, as the company is formally known,... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it started today the production of the FPSO Almirante Barroso platform, in the Búzios field, with capacity to produce daily up to 150 thousand barrels of oil and 6 million m³ of gas. FPSO Almirante Barroso will contribute to the oil production of the Búzios field, which currently... Continue Reading →
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