Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Group has delivered a fast crew supplier to Allseas for support of the giant heavy lift vessel – the Pioneering Spirit. Damen said on the 15th June that it delivered the fast crew supplier designated FCS 1605 to Allseas on…
Environmentalists emboldened by this week’s defeat of Keystone XL are pressuring President Biden to revoke permits for other oil and gas pipelines, warning their votes depend on the administration blocking fossil fuel infrastructure. “If you need and want us — as I know the…
The Western Australian government has imposed a net zero emissions condition on approval of Woodside Petroleum’s proposed expansion of the Pluto LNG project on the Burrup Peninsula near Dampier. The ruling follows advice to the government from the Environmental Protection Authority and imposes the…
On the 14th June, the Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed a state regulator’s decision that there is sufficient need for Enbridge Inc to replace its Line 3 pipeline, handing the Canadian company a crucial victory in its lengthy battle with environmental opponents. The decision…
A Fugro-led consortium which includes AS Mosley and the University of Strathclyde has designed a mooring line fatigue tracker which safely and cost-effectively monitors offshore floating wind turbines, thanks to innovation funding from the Scottish Government. The consortium won the funding to develop the…
Mocean Energy has started testing its Blue X wave energy prototype at the European Marine Energy Centre’s (EMEC) Scapa Flow test site in Orkney. Later this summer the 20-metre (65.6-foot) long, 38-metric ton (41.88-ton) wave machine will be moved to EMEC’s grid connected wave…
Parex Resources Inc produces oil and gas from conventional onshore wells in Colombia’s Llanos and Magdalena basins. On the Las Maracas oil field, it is also producing geothermal energy via modular units to generate approximately 100 kilowatts of electricity for powering pumps and other equipment…
British oil and gas major BP is joining the recently established consortium between Statkraft and Aker Offshore Wind, which is preparing a bid to build an offshore wind farm in Norway. The consortium will propose to develop an offshore wind project in the Sørlige…
Turkey has shared data on its Black Sea discovery with US energy majors Chevron and Exxon Mobil ahead of possible cooperation in extracting the gas, a Turkish official with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Ankara has so far insisted it would develop the…
Two new massive offshore wind farms have been proposed for either side of Bass Strait, taking the growing pipeline of projects in a technology which has yet to be deployed in Australia to more than 25 gigawatts. An Australian based company, Brookvale Energy, is…
