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Philip Lewis, Contributor (OE) The drivers for global offshore wind growth look good for 2023. Global offshore wind is forecast to grow from over 60 GW at the end of 2022 to 240 GW by 2030 and over 410 GW by 2035. But the sunny outlook must be balanced with some building dark clouds. As we... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday named Pedro Rafael Tellechea as the new head of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) (PDVSA.UL) and said Yvan Gil Pinto would become the new foreign minister. Venezuela's oil exports last year declined due to infrastructure outages, U.S. sanctions and rising competition in its Asia market despite assistance... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Brazil's real will stay under pressure while the new government mulls fiscal reforms to allow for higher welfare spending, but losses should subside as money dealers head out for their summer break in the Latin American nation, a Reuters poll showed. The currency , has depreciated 2.6% to 5.43 per U.S. dollar since President Luiz... Continue Reading →
Philip Lewis, Contributor Floating wind is an emerging technology. Currently being tested in small scale demonstration and pilot projects, global floating wind commissioned capacity at the end of 2022 was less than 200 megawatts (MW). By 2030, close to 11 gigawatts (GW) of commercial scale wind farms are planned to be commissioned in Europe and the... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Britain’s wind farms contributed a record 26.8% of the country’s electricity in 2022 although gas-fired power plants remained the biggest source of power, National Grid data showed on Friday. Britain has a target to reach net zero emissions by 2050 which will require a huge scale-up of renewable power generation such as wind and... Continue Reading →
Baker Hughes’ rig count report has revealed that the international offshore rig count experienced an increase of 30 units in 2022 compared to the figures from the year before. The overall international rig count including both offshore and onshore rigs was up 66 rigs from the 2021 count of 834. Source: Baker Hughes According to the report,... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras has taken another important step towards a low-carbon future: it has signed an agreement with the Oil & Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP), a global initiative coordinated by the UN dedicated to the quantification and management of methane emissions, focusing on climate change mitigation. Recognized as the industry's most relevant... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Earnings from Shell's (SHEL.L) liquefied natural gas (LNG) trading operations are likely to have been significantly higher in the fourth quarter of last year despite a sharp output drop owing to plant outages, it said on Friday. Europe's largest oil and gas company's update ahead of its full-year results on Feb. 2 also said it... Continue Reading →
Figure 1: Courtesy Rystad Energy About the Author: Matt Hale is a Lead Analyst at Rystad Energy, based in Houston, Texas. He covers oilfield services including seismic, drilling, intervention, and abandonment markets. Offshore exploration and production (E&P) capital expenditures (capex) will shake off the pandemic-induced declines of the past two years and rebound by 20%... Continue Reading →
Norwegian industrial giant Hydro and compatriot next-generation offshore wind technology developer World Wide Wind (WWW) plan to explore using recycled aluminium to build a potentially revolutionary new floating design, under a letter of intent (LoI) signed today (Thursday). The pair – which expects to expand its collabloration to investigate employing the lightweight metal alloy in... Continue Reading →
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