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Offshore Energy: from Oil & Gas to Renewables - 27-28 October 2021

Offshore Energy: from Oil & Gas to Renewables - 27-28 October 2021   By popular demand, the University of Strathclyde and Subsea UK are hosting their 'Offshore Energy: from Oil & Gas to Renewables' course over two days in October. Aimed at professionals including designers, developers and contractors, as well as government organisations, financial and legal institutio...

Petrofac and CO2 Capsol collaborate on carbon capture initiatives

Petrofac and CO2 Capsol collaborate on carbon capture initiatives   Petrofac has signed an agreement with carbon capture technology company, CO2 Capsol, which enables collaboration on carbon capture projects. Under the terms of the non-exclusive agreement, Petrofac will work as a preferred engineering services partner to support CO2 Capsol’s carbon capture opportunities across the UK, Europe and over time, globally. Both parties will bring together their combined expertise an...

New study outlines opportunities for UK companies in growth of US offshore wind

New study outlines opportunities for UK companies in growth of US offshore wind British Consulate in Boston commissioned energy consultancy Xodus to undertake research   The British Consulate-General in Boston, Massachusetts, has commissioned global energy consultancy Xodus to undertake a US industry analysis to determine the opportunities available for UK companies to enter the growing US offshore wind market. The study states that a lack of maturity in the US offshore wind su...

AIS Survivex named as finalists in the prestigious Global Wind Organisation (GWO) Awards

AIS Survivex named as finalists in the prestigious Global Wind Organisation (GWO) Awards   Leading energy training provider, AIS Survivex has beaten off stiff competition to reach the finals of the world’s first wind industry awards. The GWO Safety Training Awards reward and acknowledge the best of the best amongst the world’s wind training providers.  This is the first year the Awards have run. AIS Survivex is a finalist in two categories: training team of the...

European Commission backs floating tidal net zero project

European Commission backs floating tidal net zero project   European Commission backs Orbital’s bid to lead €26.7m project to deliver floating tidal energy as a key component of the future net zero energy system. The innovative Scottish technology developer, Orbital Marine Power (Orbital) will lead a pan-European consortium to deliver the €26.7m FORWARD-2030 project, set up to accelerate the commercial deployment of floating tidal energy. The FORWARD-2030 project...

Energy Transitions in Europe

Energy Transitions in Europe   Energy transitions has hit a snag. Since the end of the World War II and even today, the economies of industrialized countries have relied almost exclusively on fossil fuels. While this dependence of countries on this non-renewable energy has increased due to high energy efficiency and improvement of living conditions, it slowed down however since 1973, when the oil shock took place. This shock has proven to be terrible for countries around the world. A...

£3M funding pot launched for innovative UK supply chain projects to accelerate offshore wind consenting

£3M funding pot launched for innovative UK supply chain projects to accelerate offshore wind consenting   The Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) has launched a brand new grant funding programme that will develop the UK’s offshore wind supply chain by supporting projects in the offshore wind consenting and site development process. OWGP has released its first Innovation Grants competition, which will see a total of £3 million awarded to successful supply chai...

Offshore wind: New Ocean Grid project in the North Sea

Offshore wind: New Ocean Grid project in the North Sea   The Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry, Iselin Nybø, announced today that the Ocean Grid project will get financial support of 82.7 million NOK, through the Green Platform scheme. The project will develop new technology, knowledge and solutions to enable a profitable development of offshore wind on the Norwegian continental shelf. It will look particularly at the way offshore wind will be connected to the grid. T...

ScottishPower Renewables backs Proserv offshore wind subsea cable solution

ScottishPower Renewables backs Proserv offshore wind subsea cable solution   Global controls technology company Proserv Controls has received industrial sponsorship for its disruptive subsea cable condition monitoring system for the offshore wind segment, ECG™, or Electro Cable Guard, from ScottishPower Renewables (SPR). SPR is part of the ScottishPower group of companies operating in the UK under the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility compan...

Greta Thunberg: What did activist say about Scotland on climate change ahead of COP26?

Greta Thunberg: What did activist say about Scotland on climate change ahead of COP26?   Greta Thunberg has said that Scotland is not a world leader on climate change ahead of COP26 which is due to be held in Glasgow later this year. The activist's comments are contrary to those of the Scottish government, which has previously described its legislation on climate change as "world leading". It comes just weeks after the SNP signed a historic deal with the Scottish G...

Vestas installs V155-3.3MW prototype in Denmark

Vestas installs V155-3.3MW prototype in Denmark   Vestas has finalised installation of a 3.3MW prototype turbine at the Østerild National Test Centre for Large Wind Turbines in Western Jutland, Denmark. Following the  V155-3.3MW turbine’s first kWh, expected in early September, the prototype will undergo an extensive test and verification programme to ensure reliability before serial production begins in the first quarter of 2022. Leveraging its continued focus...

Chevron Expands Renewable Gas JV to Advance Low-carbon Strategy

Chevron Expands Renewable Gas JV to Advance Low-carbon Strategy   Chevron Corp. on Aug. 24 announced the second expansion of its joint venture (JV) with Brightmark LLC to own projects across the U.S. to produce and market dairy biomethane, a renewable natural gas (RNG). “This latest expansion with Brightmark advances our strategy of higher returns and lower carbon,” commented Andy Walz, president of Chevron’s Americas fuels and lubricants group, in a joint releas...

Net Zero Technology Centre launches applications for TechX Clean Energy Start-up Accelerator

Net Zero Technology Centre launches applications for TechX Clean Energy Start-up Accelerator   The Net Zero Technology Centre has today [23 August 2021] opened applications for its TechX Accelerator. Now in its fourth year, the award-winning programme looks to accelerate an entrepreneurial ecosystem of technology start-ups, who are paving the way in the clean energy space. Up to £100,000 grant funding and expert support will be provided to the successful companies that gain a pl...

Bringing energy to shore – Semco Maritime Ltd.

Bringing energy to shore – Semco Maritime Ltd.   As a world leading EPCI supplier of wind farm substations we have extensive experience in building and ensuring maximum uptime for assets in the offshore wind industry. Semco Maritime Ltd. are involved in all aspects of bringing offshore wind energy to shore. For Semco Maritime, the adventure of offshore wind started back in 2002, with the world’s first large-scale commercial offshore wind farm. Since that point we have b...

SBM Offshore Eyes Offshore Wind Project Opportunities

SBM Offshore Eyes Offshore Wind Project Opportunities   Oil and gas services company SBM Offshore on Thursday reported a better than expected decline in core profit for the first half of 2021 as it looks to develop floating offshore wind projects. After reducing spending sharply in the face of a pandemic-induced demand collapse, major energy companies have profitted from surging oil and gas prices that have fed into investment budgets, buoying SBM's results. The Dutch compa...

BP Signs Deals With Four Potential Customers for Teesside Hydrogen Production Project in England

BP Signs Deals With Four Potential Customers for Teesside Hydrogen Production Project in England   BP PLC said Thursday that it has signed agreements with four potential customers for its clean hydrogen production facility in Teesside, England. The oil-and-gas company, which in March announced the H2Teesside hydrogen project, said it has signed memorandums of understanding with CF Fertilisers, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Sembcorp Energy UK and Alfanar Company. BP said CF F...

Xodus report outlines pathway for UK to become world leader in hydrogen

Xodus report outlines pathway for UK to become world leader in hydrogen   Global energy consultancy Xodus has launched a new report urging a bolder vision to enable the UK to become a global leader in the adoption of hydrogen. Titled, ‘The UK - the Global Hydrogen Centre’ and produced for the SPE Offshore Europe virtual conference, 7-10 September 2021, the research suggests the UK is ideally placed geographically, technically, financially and politically to be a global...

Subsea 7 announces floating wind acquisition

Subsea 7 announces floating wind acquisition   Subsea 7 today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority interest in the equity of Nautilus Floating Solutions S.L. a developer of technology for the floating wind market based in Bilbao, Spain. Nautilus has developed a promising concept for a floating wind foundation based on a semi-submersible steel structure that supports a centrally-placed wind turbine. Subsea 7 will provide technical expertise, and engi...

Is Hydrogen Just Oil And Gas Greenwashed?

Is Hydrogen Just Oil And Gas Greenwashed?   The debate over the position of hydrogen in the new energy revolution has come to the fore again thanks to Japan’s hosting of the Olympic Games. The Olympic buses run on hydrogen, and even the Olympic Cauldron is a hydrogen flame. But rather than showcasing how green this miracle new fuel is, it has highlighted its many problems. In the perfect hydrogen scenario, wind farms, solar panels, ebbing tides, waves and other intermittent r...

Repsol's commercial, renewables unit grows profit by 40% in H1 2021

Repsol's commercial, renewables unit grows profit by 40% in H1 2021   Loosening of the COVID-19 restrictions on mobility coupled with clean power generation helped Spanish multi-energy group Repsol SA boost the adjusted net profit of its Commercial and Renewables unit by 39.9% year-on-year to EUR 228 million (USD 270.9m) in the first half of 2021. Repsol’s service stations in Spain, severely impacted by the COVID-19 lockdown a year ago, increased sales by 63% in this seme...
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