Industry News

May 2022

Construction for Entergy’s Sunflower PV plant comes to an end

Entergy has completed the construction of its 100MW photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Sunflower County, Mississippi. The ...

27 May

May 2022

Subsea 7 awarded SURF contract for Petrobras’ P-79 FPSO

Norwegian Subsea 7 has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract by Brazil...

27 May

May 2022

Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG project reaches FID

Venture Global has set a final investment decision (FID) for the first phase of its Plaquemines LNG project, which also ...

26 May

May 2022

Steag puts into operation two PV plants in Spain

SENS Iberica, a subsidiary of Steag Solar Energy Solutions, along with partner Aurinka International, has put into opera...

26 May

May 2022

CEE Group developing 154MW solar plant in Germany

CEE Group has disclosed its plans for a 154MW solar plant in Döllen, Germany. The Döllen project will be able to provide...

25 May

May 2022

Texas LNG project selects Technip and Samsung as lead contractors

Texas LNG Brownsville has nominated Technip Energies USA and Samsung Engineering as the lead contractors of the Texas LN...

25 May

May 2022

Falck and BlueFloat disclose plans for 975MW offshore wind farm in Italy

Falck Renewables and BlueFoat Energy have announced to be jointly developing plans for a 975MW offshore wind farm in Sa...

24 May

May 2022

TotalEnergies and Hanwha Energy sign 15-year LNG supply agreement

According to a purchase agreement firmed between the two companies, South Korea’s Hanwha Energy will receive LNG supply ...

24 May

May 2022

CIP presents BrintØ hydrogen project in the North Sea

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has disclosed its plans to build a hydrogen artificial island in the Dogger Ban...

23 May

May 2022

Hackberry Carbon Sequestration (HCS) project advances with development agreement

Partners TotalEnergies, Sempra Infrastructure, Mitsui & Co. and Mitsubishi have signed an agreement for the development ...

23 May

May 2022

Delayed Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant to cost extra £3bn

Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the project’s development, EDF has disclosed a review of cost and schedu...

20 May

May 2022

First Gen searching suppliers for the Batangas LNG terminal

Industry sources have disclosed that Phillipine company First Gen is currently searching a supplier for the Batangas LNG...

20 May

May 2022

Fulkrum to carry out inspection works at Dogger Bank A

Fulkrum has been awarded a contract for inspection services for the Dogger Bank A offshore wind project. Activities migh...

19 May

May 2022

Construction permit issued for Vattenfall’s Swedish Kriegers Flak

The Swedish government has granted a construction permit for Vattenfall’s Swedish Kriegers Flak offshore wind project. T...

19 May

May 2022

Ballymore project reaches US$1.6bn FID

Chevron and TotalEnergies have agreed to a final investment decision (FID) on the Ballymore project, in the US Golf of M...

18 May

May 2022

Proserv to monitor cables on Equinor’s Hywind Scotland floating wind farm

Global controls technology leader Proserv is to supply its pioneering holistic cable monitoring system (CMS), ECG™, to N...

18 May

May 2022

Iberdrola hits start-up at Puertollano green hydrogen plant

Iberdrola’s green hydrogen plant in Puertollano, Spain, has reached start-up. The plant features one of the largest elec...

17 May

May 2022

Aura Power’s energy storage project in Yorkshire approved

The Selby District Council has given planning permission to Aura Power’s planned battery energy storage system (BESS) in...

17 May

May 2022

EIC’s North Sea Decarbonisation Conference Starts Today

London, 17 May 2022 – The EIC, one of the world’s leading energy associations, launched today the second instalment of t...

17 May

May 2022

Green Genius installing 700MW of renewables in Lithuania by 2025

Green Genius has disclosed plans for new renewable power plants in Lithuania, all to be completed until 2025. According ...

13 May

May 2022

Manitoba Hydro’s Keeyask project reaches full operation

The last unit of the Keeyask hydropower plant is now online. This means that the 695MW project in Manitoba, Canada, has ...

13 May

May 2022

Energean announces gas discovery in Block 12, Israel

Energean has disclosed a new gas discovery in Block 12, offshore Israel. According to preliminary data, the Athena explo...

11 May

May 2022

EDP schedules Alqueva’s start-up for July

Energias de Portugal (EDP) has set Alqueva’s start-up to July 2022. The project is a 5MW floating photovoltaic plant whi...

11 May

May 2022

Vestas supplying turbines to 81MW project in Argentina

Vestas has been contracted by Aluar Aluminio Argentino for the El Llano IV wind farm in Chubut, Argentina. The 81MW plan...

10 May

May 2022

Eldfisk North PDO enters evaluation

Operator ConocoPhilips and partners Total Energies, Vår Enegi, Equinor and Petoro have submitted for evaluation the plan...

10 May

May 2022

Cheniere Energy secures IPM for Corpus Christi Stage III

Developer Cheniere Energy has secured an integrated production marketing (IPM) gas supply agreement with ARC U.S., part ...

9 May

May 2022

Financial close set for the Almonte solar park

Renewable energy platform Matrix Renewables, based in Madrid, has firmed a financing agreement with Natixis for the latt...

9 May

May 2022

Equinor transferring Krafla’s operatorship to Aker BP

Aker BP is soon to be come the operator of the Krafla field, in the North Sea. The company has recently signed a memoran...

6 May

May 2022

ODE to engineer the Yokji offshore wind farm project

Vena Energy has chosen Offshore Design Engineering (ODE) as the owner’s engineer of the developer’s Yokji offshore wind ...

6 May

May 2022

Hydro, Atlas, and Albras to build solar power plant in Brazil

Hydro Rein has created a joint venture (JV) with Atlas Renewable Energy and Albras to invest US$320m to build the 438MW ...

5 May

May 2022

Colombia discloses offshore wind plans

Colombia’s Mines and Energy Ministry has made public the final version of its offshore wind strategy for the upcoming ye...

4 May

May 2022

Expansion project for the Whistler pipeline reaches FID

A final investment decision (FID) on the Whistler pipeline expansion project has been taken by the MPLX-led consortium r...

4 May

May 2022

Works begin for the Dogger Bank project

The first stretches of HVDC export cables have been installed in Yorkshire for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm. The p...

3 May

May 2022

Petrobras’ Guanabara FPSO now operational

The first floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit of Petrobras’ Mero oil and gas field, in the Santos Ba...

3 May

May 2022

First panels installed at Enel’s Madre Vieja

The first panels of Enel Green Power’s Madre Vieja solar power plant have been installed. The 31MW project is being buil...

2 May

May 2022

Neptune Energy announces discovery at Hamlet

Neptune Energy has announced an oil and gas discovery at the Hamlet exploration well, licence PL153, in the Norwegian po...

2 May

April 2022

Duke Energy investing in RNG projects in North Carolina

Duke Energy has made public its investment in two North Carolina projects: Foothills Renewables and Upper Piedmont Renew...

29 Apr

April 2022

PetroRio to own operating stake in Albacora Leste

PetroRio’s subsidiary PetroRio Jaguar Petróleo has firmed an agreement with Petrobras for the acquisition of the latter’...

29 Apr

April 2022

Zenobē advances with Wishaw energy storage project

Construction for Zenobē’s 50MW/100MWh battery energy storage project in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, has begun. This is ...

28 Apr

April 2022

EDF breaks ground on Sutton Bridge

Construction for EDF Renewables’ solar power plant in Lincolnshire, Sutton Bridge, has begun. Early works are currently ...

28 Apr

April 2022

European Energy’s nearshore wind farm in Denmark is approved

European Energy’s Frederikshavn nearshore wind farm in Denmark has been given environmental approval by the Danish Ener...

27 Apr

April 2022

Utah green hydrogen project receives US$500m loan from the Department of Energy

The Loan Programs Office of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has agreed to a US$504.4m loan for the Advanced...

27 Apr

April 2022

Construction starts for Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm

Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm has reached construction phase. The 476MW plant in the German Baltic Sea, o...

26 Apr

April 2022

Subsea installation campaign at Sangomar to start in late 2022

Woodside Energy has reviewed the schedule for its subsea installation campaign at the Sangomar project. According to the...

26 Apr

April 2022

Production begins at Luda 5-2

The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has announced that production has commenced at the Luda 5-2 oilfield...

25 Apr

April 2022

Gemini solar project reaches financial close

American developers Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners and Primergy Solar have announced financial close for its Gemini p...

25 Apr

April 2022

US to invest to prevent premature closure of nuclear reactors

The US government has launched a US$6bn effort under the Civil Nuclear Credit Program (CNC) with the aim of supporting t...

22 Apr

April 2022

ScottishPower and Shell sign option to lease agreements

Following their success in the ScotWind leasing round at the start of the year, ScottishPower and Shell have signed an o...

22 Apr

April 2022

SSE to buy SGRE’s European renewable assets for €580m

SSE Renewables has agreed to acquire Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE)’s south European renewable energy developmen...

21 Apr

April 2022

PETRONAS begins production from Bukit Tua phase-2B project, Indonesia

PETRONAS, through its subsidiary PC Ketapang II (PCK2L), has started production from the Bukit Tua phase-2B project in I...

21 Apr