Industry News

December 2021

RWE wins concession for offshore wind project in Denmark

RWE has secured a concession from the Danish Energy Agency (Energistyrelsen) to develop the Thor offshore wind project i...

3 Dec

December 2021

ABB to help decarbonise district heat supply in Denmark

ABB will deploy its complete electrical, instrumentation and control (EIC) package, motors and variable speed drives for...

2 Dec

December 2021

Saudi Aramco awards contracts for Jafurah gas field development

Saudi Aramco has awarded subsurface and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts worth US$10bn for the ...

2 Dec

December 2021

Proserv and Trendsetter Engineering sign MoU to expand offering

Proserv Controls and Trendsetter Engineering have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) relating to the joint marke...

1 Dec

December 2021

Siemens secures order for LNG-to-power complex in Latin America

Siemens Energy has secured an order for the turnkey construction of the combined cycle power plant UTE GNA II in the int...

1 Dec

November 2021

BP to develop 500MW HyGreen Teesside project in England

Supermajor BP has confirmed plans to build the HyGreen Teesside green hydrogen project, located in the North-East of Eng...

30 Nov

November 2021

Masdar to develop solar power plant in Armenia

Masdar has signed an agreement with the Armenian government to invest US$174M to develop the 200MW Ayg-1 solar photovolt...

29 Nov

November 2021

Equinor to invest US$1.1bn to develop Oseberg field

Equinor and its partners have agreed to invest US$1.11bn in the further development of the Oseberg oil field in the Nort...

29 Nov

November 2021

McDermott wins contract for LNG project in Canada

McDermott, a US-based engineering solutions company, has secured an engineering, procurement, fabrication, and construct...

26 Nov

November 2021

Ørsted acquires 302MW wind farm in Illinois, US

Ørsted has acquired Lincoln Land Wind, a 302 MW onshore wind farm in Illinois, US, from funds managed by Ares Management...

26 Nov

November 2021

Shell partners with Simply Blue to develop Western Star floating wind project

Shell has signed an agreement with Irish blue economy developer Simply Blue Group to acquire a 51% share of their Wester...

25 Nov

November 2021

McDermott wins Ichthys booster compression platform EPC contract

McDermott has won an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) project after successfully completing FEED services...

25 Nov

November 2021

Avangrid starts construction on Vineyard Wind 1 project

Avangrid Renewables, an Iberdrola subsidiary, and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have begun construction of th...

24 Nov

November 2021

Consortium led by Aker Offshore Wind secures blade recycling pilot project funding

A UK Government grant has been secured for an innovative pilot to develop the UK’s first wind blade turbine recycling pl...

24 Nov

November 2021

ADNOC awards Baker Hughes two major contracts

Baker Hughes has been awarded two contracts from Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) last week for equipment and serv...

23 Nov

November 2021

Aker Solutions to provide subsea production system for project in Brazil

Aker Solutions has been awarded a substantial contract by Petrobras to supply a subsea production system and related ser...

23 Nov

November 2021

Intersect secures US$2.6bn financing for energy portfolio in US

Intersect Power has secured US$2.6bn in financing for the construction and operations of 2.2GW solar power facilities wi...

22 Nov

November 2021

SSE to invest £12.5bn by 2026 to reach net zero transition

Scottish energy company SSE has revealed plans to invest £12.5bn (US$16.8bn) by 2026 in renewable energy and electricity...

22 Nov

November 2021

ADNOC awards contracts for Dalma offshore gas project

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has awarded two engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts wor...

19 Nov

November 2021

Sberbank offers additional loan for nuclear power plant in Turkey

The Sberbank has agreed to grant an additional loan of US$800m to Akkuyu Nuclear, a joint-stock company majority-owned b...

19 Nov

November 2021

Wärtsilä awarded two major contracts for power plant deliveries to Latin America

The technology group Wärtsilä has been awarded two contracts for power plant projects in Latin America with a total valu...

18 Nov

November 2021

Uzbekistan plans to double energy production to 30GW by 2030

Speaking in Frankfurt, Germany at the third Uzbek-German business forum, Uzbekistan’s Energy Minister, Alisher Sultanov,...

18 Nov

November 2021

ADNOC signs deal to expand Borouge complex

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Borealis have signed a US$6.2bn partnership agreement to build the fourth Bor...

17 Nov

November 2021

COP26 keeps 1.5C alive and finalises Paris Agreement

COP26 concluded in Glasgow with nearly 200 countries agreeing the Glasgow Climate Pact to keep 1.5C alive and finalise t...

17 Nov

November 2021

Mainstream gets approval for offshore wind farm in Vietnam

Mainstream Renewable Power has secured approval for the first 200MW of its 1.4GW Phu Cuong Soc Trang offshore wind proje...

16 Nov

November 2021

Repsol to sell stake in 335MW Delta wind farm to Pontegadea

Spanish energy and petrochemical company Repsol has agreed to sell a 49% stake in its Delta onshore wind farm to Pontega...

16 Nov

November 2021

tpgroup supports the HydroFLEX train debut at COP26

tpgroup is part of a British-based supply chain that has delivered the UK’s first hydrogen-powered train in less than 12...

15 Nov

November 2021

Gazprom’s SKV pipeline expansion project enters final stage

Gazprom announced that the expansion of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok (SKV) gas trunkline in eastern Russia ha...

12 Nov

November 2021

Pattern Energy begins construction of Lanfine Wind Project in Canada

Pattern Energy announced today that it has started construction of its Lanfine wind power project in Alberta, Canada. Th...

12 Nov

November 2021

EEW becomes Sweden's largest solar PV developer

EEW, a developer of utility-scale solar energy projects, has announced that it now has 290MW of solar power projects at ...

11 Nov

November 2021

Rolls-Royce announces funding for small modular reactors

Rolls-Royce has announced that following a successful equity raise, the Rolls-Royce small modular reactor (SMR) business...

11 Nov

November 2021

Petrobras in talks with PetroRio to sell two offshore oil fields

Petrobras has selected a consortium led by PetroRio to sell the Albacora and Albacora Leste offshore oil fields in the C...

10 Nov

November 2021

ConocoPhillips submits PDO for North Sea’s Tommeliten A field

ConocoPhillips and its partners have submitted a plan for development and operation (PDO) of the Tommeliten A field in t...

10 Nov

November 2021

Dominion Energy seeks Virginia approval for CVOW project

Corporation Commission for approval to construct the 2.6GW Virginia Coastal Offshore Wind Power (CVOW) project. Accordin...

9 Nov

November 2021

Centrica plans to build 800MW of solar and battery storage by 2025

UK-based energy and services company Centrica has disclosed plans to build a low carbon portfolio of up to 800MW of sola...

9 Nov

November 2021

Iberdrola to develop offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea

Iberdrola has committed to the deployment of its third offshore wind power project in the Baltic Sea, Windanker, which w...

8 Nov

November 2021

Cargostore Worldwide announces launch of major rebrand

Cargostore Worldwide has announced a major rebrand unveiling a fresh new look for the company, visible in everything fro...

8 Nov

November 2021

Equinor makes oil discovery in North Sea

Equinor and its partners have discovered oil in the Blasto prospect near the Fram and Troll fields in the Norwegian Nort...

5 Nov

November 2021

Aker unveils massive offshore wind-to-hydrogen project in Scotland

Aker Offshore Wind and Aker Clean Hydrogen, in collaboration with DNV, have used the COP26 conference to announce a proj...

5 Nov

November 2021

EDF Renewables submits planning application for solar farm near Norwich, UK

As World leaders gather in Glasgow for COP26 to agree further action to tackle climate change, EDF Renewables is submitt...

4 Nov

November 2021

Equinor awards contracts for H2H Saltend hydrogen project

Equinor has announced that pre-FEED (front end engineering and design) study contracts have been awarded to develop the ...

4 Nov

November 2021

ExxonMobil to assess carbon capture and storage in Indonesia

ExxonMobil has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Pertamina, an Indonesian state-owned energy company, to a...

3 Nov

November 2021

Upgrade infrastructure to power switch to electric transport, energy firm tells industry

Businesses need to upgrade their electric infrastructure today in order to power electric transport fleets tomorrow, say...

3 Nov

November 2021

Fortescue Metals to invest in green hydrogen project in Argentina

The Argentine government revealed that the company Fortescue Metals Group plans to invest US$8.4bn to produce green hydr...

2 Nov

November 2021

UK allocates £380m for offshore wind sector

The UK government has allocated over £380m in its Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 to boost the offshore wind sect...

2 Nov

November 2021

Equinor to invest up to US$4.2bn in NOAKA project

Equinor plans to invest between US$3bn and US$4.2bn in the development of the Krafla, Fulla and North of Alvheim project...

1 Nov

November 2021

National Grid to consult on plans to reinforce electricity network in Yorkshire

National Grid is consulting on its detailed plans for the Yorkshire Green Energy Enablement (GREEN) Project. The public ...

1 Nov

October 2021

Lightsource bp to develop Sun Mountain solar farm in Colorado

Lightsource bp has begun the construction of the 298MW Sun Mountain solar farm in Pueblo, Colorado, in the United States...

29 Oct

October 2021

Siemens Energy to connect first utility-scale US offshore wind farm to grid

Siemens Energy has been awarded its first offshore grid connection project in the United States. In a consortium with Ak...

29 Oct

October 2021

Enel Green Power starts construction on 25 Mile Creek wind project

Enel Green Power North America has begun construction on the 250MW 25 Mile Creek wind farm in Ellis County, Oklahoma. Th...

28 Oct