Emerging technologies such as hydrogen production, carbon capture and underground storage, as well as offshore wind power are set for significant expansion across the UK continental shelf, according to Westwood Global Energy Group. However, a successful transition will depend on collaboration between existing offshore oil and gas and…
SpaceDC officially launched its new ID01 25.45MW data centre campus with Rolls-Royce technology at the beginning of November 2020. It is the first green focused data centre in Indonesia. With innovative design and infrastructure SpaceDC enables a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.3, which…
An Oil India Limited (OIL) natural gas well in the state of Assam which suffered a blowout in May before erupting into flames has now been extinguished. Three people have died and several have been injured over the last five months during operations to…
Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan has told Enbridge Inc she is ordering the company to shut down its Line 5 crude oil pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac permanently. She gave the company notice on the 13th November of the decision to revoke the…
BW Offshore aims to re-start production this week from the FPSO Catcher in the UK central North Sea. According to Premier Oil, operator of the Greater Catcher Area, a fire on the 16th November in the HVAC switchboard in the vessel’s main store room…
Energean’s Karish project in Israel is now 85 percent complete, the company has revealed in a statement posted on its website. “In the third quarter, we have continued to make solid progress on Karish, our flagship gas project in Israel, which is scheduled to…
Stena Drilling’s Stena ICEMax drillship is preparing to set sail soon to the Bahamas to spud the Perseverance #1 well for the Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC). BPC said on the 17th November in an operational update that the drillship has completed all necessary vessel…
Desert energy is back. As the European Union sets its sights on a green hydrogen boom as part of its plans to meet decarbonisation pledges and rebuild economies ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, North Africa has emerged as a possible source for a significant chunk…
As part of a pan-European initiative one of three leadership-class supercomputers, LUMI, will be located at CSC’s data centre in Kajaani, Finland. LUMI is one of the fastest supercomputers in the world and will run on 100 percent fossil free hydro power from Vattenfall. …
The government of Angola, through state-owned Sonangol EP, and new partner Gemcorp Capital LLP, a London-based investment management firm, have taken final investment decision (FID) to proceed with the country’s long-planned project for construction of a greenfield refinery on the Malembo plain, 30 km north…
