Industry News

April 2021

Statkraft to build its first wind farms in Chile

Statkraft, Europe’s renewable energy generator, will build its first wind farms in Chile, expanding its renewable energy...

13 Apr

April 2021

McDermott completes engineering for two expandable hydrogen facilities

McDermott International Ltd and New Energy Development Company LLC have announced the completion of engineering for two ...

13 Apr

April 2021

Aramco signs US$12.4bn infrastructure investment deal with EIG-led consortium

Aramco has signed a deal with a consortium led by EIG Global Energy Partners (EIG), one of the world’s leading energy in...

12 Apr

April 2021

Iberdrola, MAPFRE partner to invest in Spanish renewable energy projects

Spanish electric utility company Iberdrola and insurance company MAPFRE have created a new strategic partnership, to joi...

12 Apr

April 2021

Wood and NEL Hydrogen enter into global framework agreement

Wood has entered into a three-year engineering framework agreement with Norway-based NEL Hydrogen, aligning with the com...

9 Apr

April 2021

Barakah-1 starts commercial operations in UAE

The Unit 1 reactor at the Barakah plant in the United Arab Emirates has successfully transitioned to full commercial ope...

9 Apr

April 2021

Nordex Group wins 187MW order in Turkey

The Nordex Group has announced that the Caba Grup ordered 39 N133/4800 turbines from the Delta4000 series for the second...

8 Apr

April 2021

Petrobras increases investments in the north of Brazil

Petrobras has signed agreements with BP Energy do Brasil Ltda (BP) to take over BP’s entire stakes in six blocks, locate...

7 Apr

April 2021

Nordex Group receives 68 MW orders from Energiequelle from Finland

Nordex Group received orders from the international wind farm developer Energiequelle for the supply and construction of...

7 Apr

April 2021

Maersk Drilling awarded four-well drillship contract with Shell in Malaysia

Maersk Drilling has secured a contract with Shell Malaysia for the 7th generation drillship Maersk Viking to drill four ...

7 Apr

April 2021

ACWA Power signs financing package for gas power project in Uzbekistan

ACWA Power, a leading developer, investor and operator of power generation and desalinated water plants in 13 countries,...

7 Apr

April 2021

Siemens Gamesa to deliver turbines for Sofia offshore wind project

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has received a firm order from the Germany-based electricity generation company R...

6 Apr

April 2021

GE to supply turbines for North Central wind energy facilities in US

GE Renewable Energy has reached an agreement with Invenergy to provide onshore wind turbines for the 1,485MW North Centr...

6 Apr

April 2021

Eni signs Memorandum of Understanding with Zhejiang Energy

Eni and Zhejiang Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on strategic co-operation in the energy sector. ...

1 Apr

April 2021

UK government urged to strengthen support for tidal energy

The UK government is being urged to show greater support for tidal energy in its net-zero planning, and to engage constr...

1 Apr

March 2021

Vestas signs 50 MW order in Spain

Vestas has received a 50 MW order of V150-4.2 MW turbines for a wind park in Spain. The contract includes the supply and...

31 Mar

March 2021

Ørsted, Aker Carbon Capture and Microsoft commit to explore development of carbon capture

Ørsted, Aker Carbon Capture and Microsoft have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore ways to support the...

31 Mar

March 2021

KCA Deutag wins $110m of new business in land drilling market

KCA Deutag has secured contracts worth around $110m (£79.8m) for its Land Drilling business in Pakistan, Russia, Kurdis...

30 Mar

March 2021

The top natural gas-producing countries

Two international rivals – the US and Russia – are by far the largest natural gas-producing countries in the world, domi...

30 Mar

March 2021

Aker Solutions Partners Up for Sustainable Energy Projects in the UK

Aker Solutions and Doosan Babcock have agreed to jointly deliver projects for low-carbon solutions and renewable energy ...

29 Mar

March 2021

PETRONAS becomes world’s first to produce LNG from two floating facilities

PETRONAS has become the first global energy company to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) from two floating facilities ...

29 Mar

March 2021

INEOS Energy to sell its Norwegian oil and gas business to PGNiG for $615m

INEOS Energy has today announced an agreement to sell its Oil and Gas business in Norway to PGNiG Upstream Norway AS for...

26 Mar

March 2021

GE wins order for power equipment in Malaysia

GE has secured an order from the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) consortium of Posco Engineering & Cons...

26 Mar

March 2021

Nordex receives a 96 MW order in Mexico

The Nordex Group has received an order for the delivery of 20 N155/4.X turbines in Mexico. The turbines will be delivere...

25 Mar

March 2021

Saipem awarded new contract for pipelines project in Qatar

Saipem has received a Letter of Award from Qatargas for a new contract worth over US$1bn and related to the North Field ...

25 Mar

March 2021

Vestas wins 47 MW order in Japan

Vestas has secured a 47 MW order with Shimizu Corporation for the Oritsume Minami 1 Wind Farm in Iwate prefecture, Japan...

24 Mar

March 2021

Hywind remains UK’s best performing offshore wind farm

For the third consecutive year, Hywind Scotland – the world’s first floating offshore wind farm – reached the highest av...

24 Mar

March 2021

Baker Hughes and Horisont Energi Sign MoU for Groundbreaking Offshore Barents Sea Carbon Capture, Transport and Storage Project

Baker Hughes and Horisont Energi AS have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the Polaris carbon storage proje...

23 Mar

March 2021

Adani Green Energy gets SECI’s LOA for wind power project

Adani Green Energy has announced that its subsidiary Adani Renewable Energy Holding Fifteen (AREHFL) has been issued a l...

23 Mar

March 2021

Siemens Energy to supply modules and support for FPSO offshore South America

Siemens Energy has been awarded a topside EPC contract by MISC Berhad for eight complete topside modules that will provi...

22 Mar

March 2021

DORE acquires portfolio of UK solar assets for £42m

Downing Renewables & Infrastructure Trust Plc (DORE) has announced the completion of the acquisition of a 96MWp portfoli...

22 Mar

March 2021

Serica Energy spuds Columbus development well in North Sea

British independent oil and gas company Serica Energy has announced the spud of the Columbus 23/16f-CDev1 development we...

19 Mar

March 2021

Siemens Energy to supply technology for new power plant expansion project in China

Siemens Energy has been selected by Shenzhen Energy Corporation in China to supply two 460MW F-class gas turbine power i...

18 Mar

March 2021

Nordex Group receives 35 MW order from Italy

The Nordex Group has obtained a further order from Italy. The company is supplying ten N131/3600 turbines projected for ...

16 Mar

March 2021

Brent crude retreats after briefly topping US$70

Brent futures have steadily retreated after briefly topping US$70 a barrel on Monday, a level the global benchmark has f...

16 Mar

March 2021

Lightsource bp solar farm powers bp service stations with 100% renewable energy in Australia

Lightsource bp announced that through a PPA with Snowy Hydro, its West Wyalong solar farm will supply renewable energy t...

15 Mar

March 2021

GE Renewable Energy to open new offshore wind blade manufacturing plant in Teesside

GE Renewable Energy has announced that it plans to open a new blade manufacturing facility in Teesside in the north east...

15 Mar

March 2021

Expro and Frank's to combine to create a leading full-cycle service provider

Expro Group and Frank's International announced a definitive agreement under which the companies will combine in an all-...

12 Mar

March 2021

Planning consent given for EDF Renewables Sutton Bridge solar farm

Planning consent has been given for EDF Renewables’ (EDF R) Sutton Bridge solar farm. South Holland District Council has...

12 Mar

March 2021

Equinor discovers oil near the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea

Equinor and partners Vår Energi and Petoro have struck oil in exploration well 7220/7-4 in production licence 532 in the...

11 Mar

March 2021

Cairn, Cheiron to buy Shell’s onshore Egyptian upstream business

Cairn Energy and Cheiron Petroleum have agreed to acquire Royal Dutch Shell’s onshore upstream interests in the Western ...

11 Mar

March 2021

Wood completes work on Shell’s first solar PV plant in the Middle East

Wood recently completed its role as owner’s engineer on Oman Shell’s first utility-scale, photovoltaic (PV) solar projec...

10 Mar

March 2021

Canada’s newest hydro project starts generating clean energy

Renewable electricity has started being produced at Keeyask Generating Station in Manitoba, Canada, six-months ahead of ...

10 Mar

March 2021

Chevron to acquire remaining shares of Noble Midstream Partners

Chevron has reached a definitive agreement with Noble Midstream Partners to acquire all the remaining shares that it doe...

9 Mar

March 2021

Maersk Drilling secures one-well contract to reactivate Maersk Resolute

Maersk Drilling has been awarded a one-well contract by Petrogas E&P Netherlands B.V. which will employ the harsh-enviro...

8 Mar

March 2021

Further development of the Åsgard field

The partners in the Åsgard licence have decided to invest just under NOK1.4bn to further develop the field and implement...

8 Mar

March 2021

Siemens Gamesa takes UK onshore wind to new heights with deal to install its SG 5.8-155 turbines in Scotland

Siemens Gamesa has signed a 50 MW deal with EnergieKontor UK Ltd to supply the subsidy-free Longhill Burn wind farm near...

5 Mar

March 2021

Enel signs VPPA with Kellogg for Azure Sky wind project

Enel, through its US subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, has signed a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) wit...

5 Mar

March 2021

MDL transpools flowlines for India

Maritime Developments (MDL) has completed transpooling of flowlines for an Indian oil and gas operator. The scope of wor...

4 Mar

March 2021

Shell LNG outlook 2021

The Shell LNG Outlook, now in its fifth year, highlights key trends in 2020. It finds that global demand for liquefied n...

3 Mar