North Star Renewables has contracted VARD to design and construct three service operation vessels (SOVs) that will operate on the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The SOVs were developed by VARD in close cooperation with Aberdeen-based North Star, which has…
Oil and gas company Tullow Oil has started a multi-year, multi-well drilling campaign offshore Ghana following the beginning of drilling of the first well at the Jubilee field on the 5th April. The Maersk Venturer drillship, which has been contracted for four years, is…
Small modular reactors (SMRs) — nuclear reactors using novel technologies to fit into much smaller and mass-producible packages than the behemoth nuclear power plants of today — are presented as a way of rapidly decarbonising the grid in the face of an ever more pressing…
The government of Alberta has approved a C$408-million grant under its Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program (APIP) to support Calgary-based Inter Pipeline Ltd’s Heartland Petrochemical Complex (HPC) – Canada’s first integrated propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and polypropylene (PP) complex – now under construction in Strathcona County, Alberta….
Embracing opportunities in the growing renewables market will be key to growth in 2021 and beyond, according to a leading specialist in the provision of innovative steel wire and fibre rope solutions. Whilst traditional steel ropes remain popular, Hendrik Veder Group (HVG) is also…
Petronas subsidiary PC Myanmar (Hong Kong) Ltd. (PCML) has declared force majeure on the Yetagun gas field in blocks M12, M13, and M14 offshore Myanmar. The decision was made following challenges in the wells deliverability which resulted in the production rate dropping below the…
Gastrade has signed co-operation agreements for the Alexandroupolis LNG terminal. These involve National Energy Resources “NER AD” Skopje and AD Power Plants of Northern Macedonia “AD ESM”. NER AD is seeking to acquire a stake in Gastrade while AD ESM is looking to…
Russia expects all maritime traffic rules “to be strictly observed” in the area of the construction site of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, a foreign ministry official was quoted on the 2nd April as saying, amid security concerns over the project. The consortium…
The consortium behind the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline warned on the 1st April about security risks to the project from warships and planes, as the link is nearing completion. The pipeline, aimed at bypassing Ukraine and doubling the capacity of…
Eni and Zhejiang Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on strategic cooperation in the energy sector, Eni has revealed in a statement posted on its website. The MoU establishes a cooperation framework aimed at facilitating joint initiatives between Eni and Zhejiang Energy across…
