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  • 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

    Westinghouse 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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  • Russia to Consider Rosneft’s Access to Nord Stream 2

    Russia’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

    Swedish 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

    Halliburton 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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  • Ocean Winds and Aker team-up for ScotWind bids

    Ocean 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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