Ørsted, the developer synonymous with offshore wind, will have a novel experience in 2021: all of the new power plants it completes will be onshore, and most will involve solar panels. Since building the world’s first offshore wind project 30 years ago off the…
DEME Offshore’s sister installation vessels Sea Installer and Sea Challenger have installed 94 turbines at Ørsted’s Borssele 1 & 2 wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The first turbine was installed in April 2020, and less than five months later, the turbine installation…
Neptune Energy has announced installation is underway of the world’s longest heated subsea production pipeline in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Once completed, the 36 km electrically trace-heated (ETH) pipe-in-pipe solution will transport oil from the Neptune Energy-operated Fenja field to the…
Papua New Guinea is demanding a greater share of the country’s resource wealth, stepping up its battle with companies including Exxon Mobil Corporation and Barrick Gold Corporation. Prime Minister James Marape laid out in a statement to parliament on the 2nd September the efforts…
Norfolk County Council (NCC) has secured £6 million of funding to deliver an offshore energy operations and maintenance campus at the Port of Great Yarmouth. The site will be located at the entrance of River Yare and will have closer proximity to the Southern…
The consultation will examine how the UK can build back greener through marine renewable projects across the country. new consultation launched on how government can support marine energy projects, such as floating offshore wind farms, tidal stream and wave energy views invited on…
Ithaca Energy has received approval from the UK’s Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning for its decommissioning proposals for the Anglia gas field in the UK southern North Sea. Anglia, which ceased production in 2015, is in blocks 48/19b and 48/18b. Facilities to…
Global wind and solar development company, Mainstream Renewable Power (“Mainstream” or “The Company”), has reached financial close for the second phase of its wholly-owned and fully-contracted 1.3 gigawatt “Andes Renovables” wind and solar power generation platform in Chile. The Company has successfully raised US$620…
EDF Energy announced on the 27th August that the Hunterston B nuclear power station will be closed down in 2021, two years earlier than intended. The nuclear power station in Ayrshire, Scotland, has been closed since 2018 when 350 cracks were found in the…
Jizzakh Petroleum JV LLC, a joint venture of JSC Uzbekneftegaz and Gazprom International SA subsidiary Gas Project Development Central Asia AG, has signed on as a major investor in a project to build a grassroots gas chemical complex based on methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology in south-western…
