Industry News

November 2022

Brunsbüttel terminal in Germany to receive LNG from QatarEnergy and ConocoPhillips

QatarEnergy and ConocoPhillips have signed two long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreements (SPAs)...

30 Nov

November 2022

Petronas achieves FID for Kasawari CCS project offshore Malaysia

Petronas’ subisidary Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd (PCSB) has achieved a final investment decision (FID) for the Kasawari ca...

30 Nov

November 2022

Woodside Energy concludes construction of Sangomar FPSO

Woodside Energy has concluded construction work of the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit to be dep...

29 Nov

November 2022

iNNOVATEQ teams up with Shell to unlock well’s data potential

Shell, the leading international energy company, and iNNOVATEQ, a leading digital transformation solutions provider, hav...

29 Nov

November 2022

Acciona Energia to install 1GW wind farm in Queensland, Australia

Acciona Energia has announced a 1.026GW wind power project to be deployed within the MacIntyre Wind Precint in Southern ...

28 Nov

November 2022

Green hydrogen project in Port-La-Nouvelle under development by Qair and Arec Occitanie

Qair and Arec Occitanie, through its joint venture Hyd’Occ, have disclosed development plans for a green hydrogen plant ...

28 Nov

November 2022

Engie and Google agree on 12-year PPA related to Ocean Winds’ Moray West offshore wind project

Engie and Google have concluded a 12-year corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) of 100MW related to the Moray West of...

25 Nov

November 2022

Construction begins at Enel Green Power’s La Cabaña wind power project in Chile

Civil works have begun for Enel Green Power’s 105.6MW wind power project in Chile. Requiring an investment of approximat...

25 Nov

November 2022

Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France is now fully operational

In construction since September 2019, the 480MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm has entered full operations. The plant ...

24 Nov

November 2022

Inauguration ceremony for Coral South FLNG project held in Mozambique

Mozambican President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi has attended an inauguration ceremony for Eni’s Coral South floating liquefied...

24 Nov

November 2022

All offshore wind turbines of RWE’s Kaskasi project installed

RWE has concluded installation works for all offshore wind turbines that compose its Kaskasi project in the North Sea. T...

23 Nov

November 2022

Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant receives US$1.1bn from US government

The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo County, California has been granted by the US Department of Ene...

23 Nov

November 2022

Sinopec secures 27-year LNG supply from QatarEnergy

QatarEnergy has signed a sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) regardi...

22 Nov

November 2022

OCCMS appoint new Directors to support global growth in major projects

Steve Drummond (left) and Jamie Japp (right) OCCMS, Orion’s specialist completions and commissioning services provider, ...

22 Nov

November 2022

Aker Solutions providing M&M services at Johan Sverdrup until 2026

Aker Solutions has been granted by Equinor an extension of its maintenance and modification (M&M) services contract for ...

21 Nov

November 2022

American national grid receiving US$13bn funding for modernisation and expansion

The Biden Administration has recently made public an investment of US$13bn for the modernisation and expansion of the Un...

21 Nov

November 2022

Siemens Energy developing game-changing ammonia prototype

A Siemens Energy led consortium has begun work in Newcastle, UK on a new £3.5m ammonia cracker prototype designed to pro...

18 Nov

November 2022

New alliance aims to bring integrated offering for the energy transition

A collaboration between pioneering geoenergy company dCarbonX and well management specialist Senergy Wells, a Vysus Grou...

17 Nov

November 2022

ENGIE and partners to build 3GW wind farm in Egypt

A consortium comprising ENGIE, Orascom Construction and Toyota Tsusho has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) wit...

17 Nov

November 2022

Equinor invites contractors to Pipeline Repair and Subsea Intervention pool

Equinor Energy AS, as technical service provider (TSP), and on behalf of current and potential members of the Pipeline R...

16 Nov

November 2022

Orion Group celebrates its 35-year anniversary

This year Orion Group celebrated its 35th anniversary. The company was established in 1987 by Alan and Linda Savage and ...

16 Nov

November 2022

ExxonMobil and Area 4 partners ship first cargo from Coral South FLNG project

ExxonMobil and other Area 4 partners have achieved the milestone of shipping the first cargo of liquefied natural gas (L...

15 Nov

November 2022

bp awards critical business services contract to Nobel Energy

Glensol, Nobel Energy’s field operations and equipment maintenance subsidiary, has been awarded a major contract by bp f...

15 Nov

November 2022

Indonesia approves updated PoD for Mako gas project

Empyrean Energy has announced the approval of an updated Plan of Development (PoD) for the Mako Gas Project offshore Ind...

14 Nov

November 2022

Shell, partners extend LNTP for Gato do Mato offshore Brazil

Brasil Petróleo, the Brazilian subsidiary of Shell, together with its partners, has extended the limited notice to proce...

14 Nov

November 2022

Equinor looks to Celtic Sea for new offshore wind opportunities

As the developer and soon to be operator of two of the world’s first floating offshore wind farms, Equinor views new flo...

11 Nov

November 2022

Doosan wins El Dabaa nuclear power plant contract

Doosan Enerbility (formerly Doosan Heavy Industries) has won a contract worth KRW1.6tn (US$1.21bn) from Korea Hydro and ...

11 Nov

November 2022

Eni begins production at HDLE/HDLS oil field in Algeria.

Eni has confirmed the beginning of production in the HDLE/HDLS oil field in the Algerian desert, six months after its di...

10 Nov

November 2022

Masdar and Hassan Allam Utilities team up for 10GW wind project in Egypt

Masdar (through Infinity Power, its joint venture with Egyptian company Infinity) and Hassan Allam Utilities have partne...

9 Nov

November 2022

Wood providing FEED services to Norwegian hydrogen project

Gen2 Energy has selected Wood to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for its proposed green hydrogen fa...

9 Nov

November 2022

ExxonMobil announces discovery in Block 15, Angola

A new hydrocarbon discovery has been achieved by ExxonMobil at the Bavuca South-1 exploration well, part of Block 15 in ...

8 Nov

November 2022

Strategic Growth Services advises OMV

OMV and Wood have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enter into a mutually exclusive collaboration agreement ...

8 Nov

November 2022

ACEN moves ahead with Stubbo solar project in Australia with FID

A final investment decision (FID) on the Stubbo solar power project in Australia has been taken by developer ACEN. In Se...

7 Nov

November 2022

STATS technology come of age with increase in Australian pipeline market frame agreements

Just one year on from establishing a new entity in Australia, pipeline technology specialist STATS Group (STATS), is loo...

7 Nov

November 2022

Mongolia’s first oil refinery to be built by MEIL

Indian company Megha Engineering and Infrastructure (MEIL) has been granted a letter of authorisation (LOA) for the cons...

4 Nov

November 2022

Centrica and Equinor developing blue hydrogen hub in East Yorkshire

Centrica and Equinor have signed an agreement regarding the development of low-carbon hydrogen centre at Centrica’s faci...

4 Nov

November 2022

Enbridge and Plains All American Pipeline buy stakes in the Cactus II pipeline project

Remaining shares available in the Cactus II pipeline project have been acquired by Enbridge and Plains All American Pipe...

4 Nov

November 2022

Poland orders three AP1000 nuclear reactors from Westinghouse

The government of Poland has chosen American company Westinghouse Electric for the provision of three AP1000 nuclear rea...

3 Nov

November 2022

Saipem completes initial phase of sale of onshore drilling business to KCA Deutag

Under the terms of the agreement, Saipem will sell its onshore drilling operations in the Middle East, Africa and the Am...

2 Nov

November 2022

RES secures full scope Senvion O&M contract at Freasdail wind farm

RES has announced that its operations and maintenance (O&M) team has secured a full scope contract with TRIG to manage F...

2 Nov

November 2022

WEC Energy Group enters Maple Flats solar project in Illinois for US$360m

WEC Energy Group has acquired a share of 80% in the Maple Flats Solar Energy Center in Illinois, United States, for US$3...

1 Nov

November 2022

TotalEnergies reveals oil discovery in the Sépia field offshore Brazil

TotalEnergies has reported an oil discovery at the 4-SEP-9D-RJS well, also known as Pedúnculo, drilled by Ocyan’s ODN-I ...

1 Nov

October 2022

Ramboll to design foundations of Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm in New Jersey

Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, through subsidiary Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Project 1, has chosen Ramboll for the de...

31 Oct

October 2022

Oliver Valvetek in Top 50 Most Innovative Businesses

We’re delighted that Oliver Valvetek is among the 50 fastest growing, most innovative large independently owned business...

31 Oct

October 2022

Equinor delivering 8 TWh of gas to Denmark through the Baltic pipeline

Equinor has announced an agreement with Ørsted for the delivery of gas to Denmark using the Baltic pipeline. The pipelin...

31 Oct

October 2022

Scottish Renewables celebrates the future of Scotland’s wind energy industry

To mark Wind Energy Week 2022, Scottish Renewables joined MSPs at the Scottish Parliament to celebrate the success story...

28 Oct

October 2022

Main dam wall of the Hatta hydropower plant complete, says DEWA

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has stated that construction of the 72-metre main roller compacted conc...

27 Oct

October 2022

ExxonMobil announces another discovery in the Stabroek Block, Guyana

ExxonMobil has made another hydrocarbons discovery in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, more precisely at the Yarrow-1...

27 Oct

October 2022

Ørsted and CIP propose over 5GW offshore wind projects in Denmark

Ørsted and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have established a partnership for the development of four offshore ...

26 Oct

October 2022

Vysus Group showcases fully secure emissions data sharing platform at ADIPEC 2022

At this year’s ADIPEC enterprise data sharing platform SICCAR, and global engineering and technical consultancy Vysus Gr...

26 Oct

October 2022

New shale gas discovery by Sinopec in the Sichuan Basin

A new shale gas discovery has been reported by Sinopec Southwest following drilling activities at the Jinshi 103HG explo...

25 Oct

October 2022

Financial close secured for first phase of Vena Energy’s Vandoa South PV project

Vena Energy has made public the financial close of the first phase of its Wandoan South photovoltaic (PV) project in Que...

25 Oct

October 2022

Shell enters NFS project alongside QatarEnergy and TotalEnergies

QatarEnergy has reported that Shell has been chosen as the company’s second international partner in the North Field Sou...

24 Oct

October 2022

Invenergy’s Energía del Pacífico project starts commercial operations

The Energía del Pacífico (EDP) LNG-to-power project in Port of Acajutla, El Salvador, is now commercially operational, a...

21 Oct

October 2022

New oil discovery at Kruh Block by Indonesia Energy

A new oil discovery has been made by Indonesia Energy Corporation (IEC) the Kruh onshore oil field in Sumatra. An oil-be...

21 Oct

October 2022

Siemens secures major contract for Hai Long offshore wind project in Taiwan

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has acquired a major turbines supply contract from the Hai Long offshore wind project in...

20 Oct

October 2022

Saipem receives US$4.5bn order from Qatargas for two natural gas compression complexes

Qatargas has selected Saipem for a contract worth US$4.5bn concerning works at the North field project offshore Qatar. T...

20 Oct

October 2022

SJVN and APDCL planning 1GW floating solar project in India

Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Assam Power Distribution Co Ltd (APDC...

19 Oct

October 2022

CrossWind’s Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project starts construction

Shell Nederland and Eneco’s join venture CrossWind has announced the beginning of construction at its Hollandse Kust Noo...

19 Oct

October 2022

Sembcorp Marine concludes construction of P-71 FPSO for Petrobras

Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz (EJA), a subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, has disclosed the conclusion of construction work for t...

18 Oct

October 2022

World’s first hybrid wind-solar park enters operation in Australia

Iberdrola has announced the beginning of Port Augusta’s commissioning phase in South Australia. The project is the world...

18 Oct

October 2022

Thor offshore wind farm in Denmark receiving transmission system from Siemens and HSM

RWE has chosen Siemens Energy and HSM Offshore Energy for the provision of an electrical transmission system for the Tho...

17 Oct

October 2022

Nel ASA awarded contract for H2OK hydrogen project in Oklahoma

Woodside has granted Nel ASA’s subsidiary Nel Hydrogen Electrolyser a contract for equipment related to H2OK’s alkaline ...

17 Oct

October 2022

China adding two new reactors to the Lianjing nuclear power plant

The Chinese government has approved the addition of two new AP1000 nuclear reactors to the Lianjing nuclear power plant....

14 Oct

October 2022

Phase 2 of Equinor’s Peregrino project in Brazil starts production

Equinor has announced that first oil has been achieved at the second development phase of the Peregrino heavy oil field ...

14 Oct

October 2022

APG acquires Quinbrook’s share in the Gemini solar and storage project

On behalf of client ABP, APG has secured a 49% stake in the Gemini solar and storage project in Nevada, United States. T...

13 Oct

October 2022

Maersk Supply Service granted installation contract of the EFGL wind farm in France

The transport and installation contract of the EFGL wind farm’s three 10MW turbines has been secured by Maersk Supply Se...

13 Oct

October 2022

Wärtsilä reaching final commissioning for Netherland’s energy storage system

The technology group Wärtsilä is completing the commissioning of its first energy storage project in the Netherlands, wh...

12 Oct

October 2022

Wind farm blows in multi-million pound community fund for Caithness

People and communities across Caithness are set to benefit from a new £3.75m community fund created by ScottishPower Ren...

12 Oct

October 2022

Tanzania-Kenya pipeline to cost over US$1bn

Samia Suluhu Hassan and William Ruto, presidents of Tanzania and Kenya, respectively, have decided to move forward with ...

11 Oct