Total declared force majeure on its Mozambique LNG project on the 26th April. In a statement posted on its website, the company noted the evolution of the security situation in the north of the Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique and confirmed the withdrawal of…
Italian oil major Eni has started gas production from the Merakes project located in the East Sepinggan block in the Makassar Strait, deep offshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Eni said on the 26th April that the project was a deep-water gas field development in the…
PSEG Nuclear’s Hope Creek Generating Station has marked another uninterrupted 18-month production cycle and entered a planned refuelling and maintenance outage after operators safely removed the unit from the regional power grid. Hope Creek is one of three nuclear units operated by PSEG Nuclear…
Ocean Power Technologies Inc has deployed a PB3 PowerBuoy for Enel Green Power (EGP) off the coast of Las Cruces, Chile. In September 2019, EGP purchased a PB3 PowerBuoy and associated equipment to support Chile’s Marine Energy Research and Innovation Center (MERIC) Project, a…
On the 23rd April a US appeals court denied Dakota Access LLC’s petition for a rehearing on a court decision to cancel a key permit for its oil pipeline, court documents show. The decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia…
Offshore Energy continues with its new In focus weekly feature, spotlighting the latest energy transition developments, after our first edition went online on 16 April. Following last week’s news on the US oil giant Chevron’s entrance into the offshore wind market and note that…
Californian Governor Gavin Newsom will ban new hydraulic fracturing permits in the coming years as the state pushes to eliminate net greenhouse-gas emissions by 2045. His order on the 23rd April to halt new permits by January 2024 follows calls from environmental groups for executive action…
Equinor Energy AS and partners will develop Askeladd Vest in the southern Barents Sea. At a cost of 3.2-billion kroner and part of the multi-phased Snøhvit development, the project is expected to provide 134 MMboe, extending plateau production at the Hammerfest LNG plant by…
Nord Stream AG has delivered 400 bcm of gas to the European Union through the twin Nord Stream 1 offshore pipeline system in the Baltic Sea. The milestone occurred on the 19th April. Deliveries first started in November 2011. Source: Offshore Magazine
An international photovoltaics working group has developed a new transparent material to serve as a top layer for solar cells, based on nanocrystals. According to simulations performed by the participating TU Delft researchers, this layer can increase the efficiency of mass-produced – and affordable…
