UK supermajor BP has suspended production from the Foinaven field offshore UK and will be retiring the floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit working on the field due to a series of safety issues. BP said that it informed the staff of its…
German utility Uniper is studying the conversion of its coal-fired power plant site at Wilhelmshaven on Germany’s North Sea coast into an import and electrolysis hub to tap into emerging demand for “green” hydrogen. Policymakers in Europe aim to produce green hydrogen from renewable…
German energy provider EWE has completed the first stage of a test project to see whether the safe storage of green hydrogen in underground caverns is possible. The company has laid the foundations at a salt dome site in Rüdersdorf near Berlin with the…
Emperor Energy has completed an agreement with CGG to purchase a licence for new 3D seismic data in the Gippsland basin offshore southeast Australia. This covers the Judith gas field and the Greater Judith Structure: CGG acquired the data last year as part of…
Mammoet subsidiary Conbit has opened its Asia/Pacific hub in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. The office will provide the following specialist services: offshore and onshore flare tip replacements flare stack and guy wire maintenance services offshore rigging and lifting engineering and operations …
Chevron Corporation’s venture capital arm and Moreld Ocean Wind has agreed to invest in Ocergy Inc’s development and commercialisation of floating offshore wind turbines. The investment by Chevron Technology Ventures is its first in offshore wind. The size of the investments weren’t disclosed. Floating…
Two years after the first steel was cut, the giant main support frame (MSF) module for the Johan Sverdrup P2 platform left Aibel’s yard in Thailand. Aibel said on the 11th April that the Johan Sverdrup MSF module left Thailand on the 7th April…
China Oil & Gas Piping Network Corporation (PipeChina) has begun building a 6.6 billion cu m/year natural gas pipeline from Tianjin to Xiong’an New Area, Hebei Province. The 413.5-km, 43.5-inch OD line will cost US$1.31 billion. The pipeline will move gas from the…
Vestas has secured an order for turbine supply at the 25 MW Torshavn onshore wind project, located just outside the capital of the Faroe Islands, from Vindrøkt Sp/f, a special purpose vehicle owned by Røkt and Effo. Six V117-4.2 MW Vestas turbines will power…
Clouds are gathering over future pipeline construction as the Biden administration’s environmental focus begins to seep into Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) initiatives. The commission, with Democratic Chairman Richard Glick doing the steering, took two significant steps in February, which would end up complicating…
