Final turbine in place at Moray East offshore wind farm Fred Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Blue Tern has installed the 100th and final turbine at for the Moray East wind farm in the North Sea, off north-east Scotland. Developer Moray Offshore Windfarm East is…
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Westinghouse and CEZ Sign Historic Agreement
Read moreWestinghouse Electric and the CEZ Company have signed a landmark nine-year project agreement to upgrade the instrumentation and control (I&C) systems at the Temelin nuclear power plant (NPP). This agreement represents a major milestone for the clean and reliable energy supply in the Czech Republic…
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New study outlines opportunities for UK companies in growth of US offshore wind
Read moreThe British Consulate-General in Boston, Massachusetts, has commissioned global energy consultancy Xodus to undertake a US industry analysis to determine the opportunities available for UK companies to enter the growing US offshore wind market. The study states that a lack of maturity in the…
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Russia to Consider Rosneft’s Access to Nord Stream 2
Read moreRussia’s energy ministry is due to prepare a report in the coming days on the possibility of petroleum refineries company Rosneft exporting gas to Europe via the new Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Interfax cited Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak as saying on the 15th September. Separately, the…
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Preem’s Lysekil refinery producing renewable fuel via coprocessing
Read moreSwedish refiner Preem AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Corral Petroleum Holdings AB, Stockholm, is producing renewable fuel from a feedstock of biomass-based pyrolysis oil using coprocessing technology from Honeywell UOP LLC at the operator’s 220,000-b/d refinery in Lysekil, Sweden. Using only existing plant…
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Halliburton Selected for Offshore Israel Campaign
Read moreHalliburton Company has announced that it has been awarded an integrated services contract to execute a three to five well drilling and completions campaign for Energean. The deal is for three firm and two optional wells to deliver all services including project management, directional…
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Longboat sees start of drilling ops on its first-ever exploration well
Read moreNorwegian oil and gas company Vår Energi has started drilling the Rødhette exploration well off Norway, the first in a series of seven wells where Longboat Energy will participate as a non-operator. Longboat Energy, established by the former management team of Faroe Petroleum, this…
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TotalEnergies and Air Liquide Partner to Develop Low-Carbon Hydrogen Production in the Normandy Industrial Basin
Read moreTotalEnergies and Air Liquide are joining forces to decarbonise hydrogen production at TotalEnergies’ Normandy platform. This project will enable in time for the supply to TotalEnergies by Air Liquide of low-carbon hydrogen by relying on Air Liquide’s hydrogen network in Normandy and the implementation…
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Ocean Winds and Aker team-up for ScotWind bids
Read moreOcean Winds and Aker Offshore Wind have submitted joint bids for Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind process for new commercial-scale offshore wind farms, covering several locations in the Outer Moray Firth. The partners propose use of floating devices to deliver 6,000 MW of energy, which…
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Norway elects pro-oil, Labour-led coalition in advance of COP26 climate talks
Read moreNorway’s opposition Labour Party is on course to oust the Conservative-led government after two consecutive terms in an election dominated by disputes over the Nordic economy’s dependence on fossil fuel. A likely coalition led by Labour, headed by millionaire Jonas Gahr Store, is poised…