Building power plants in the middle of the sea was never going to be easy. The world’s largest developer of offshore wind farms Orsted A/S has found that some of its cables connecting to wind farms have been damaged by scraping against rocks on…
Oil and gas investment company ADM Energy has completed the acquisition of a controlling interest in a risk-sharing agreement for the development of the Barracuda field. ADM said on the 28th April that it now owned a 51 per cent interest in KONH UK…
Menck will supply a hydraulic hammer spread to Van Oord for installation of Italy’s first offshore wind farm. Installation of ten monopiles, each supporting a 3-MW turbine, will start at the Taranto project this summer from the MPI Resolution and should take 16 days…
China Development Integration Limited (“CDIL”) and China Machinery Engineering Corporation (“CMEC”) have announced that they have entered into a development agreement in relation to the EPC+F (engineering, procurement, construction + financing) of a 1100MW photovoltaic project in Port Açu and additional locations in Brazil. …
On the 28th April privately held OPAL Fuels LLC and a unit of NextEra Energy unveiled plans to build the first landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility in Minnesota, as demand for clean energy jumps following government’s push. NextEra subsidiary will work with…
TAIF Group subsidiary PJSC Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNK) has let a contract to Lummus Technology LLC to deliver technology licensing and engineering services for a series of new units to be built as part of an expansion of NKNK’s existing petrochemical complex at Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan. As…
Reliance Industries Limited and BP have announced the production start-up of the Satellite Cluster gas field in block KG D6, which is located off the east coast of India. Satellite Cluster will produce gas from four reservoirs, utilising a total of five wells, and…
NorSea UK, in collaboration with Robertson-IES and CR Smith Services, has unveiled NorSea Decom – a dedicated entity whose sole work scope will be the safe and compliant management of decommissioned subsea infrastructure and waste logistics. The move will further utilise NorSea’s expansive Peterhead…
Workers at mining giant Anglo American’s Grosvenor coal mine in Queensland have been left “fuming” as a result of the company’s decision to restart operations following an explosion in May 2020 which seriously injured five people. According to Reuters news agency, a union official…
One of the biggest electricity transmission companies in Australia has questioned whether the 1,000MW Kurri Kurri gas plant proposed by federal energy minister Angus Taylor will ever be built. And if it is, it suggests it would be rarely used. ElectraNet, which runs the…
