The latest EIC Monitor report shows healthy levels of contracting activity across the global upstream, midstream and downstream sectors in Q1 2014, with overall figures showing steady growth in the number of major contract awards made since the last quarter. Read more...
JGC Yamal LNG has awarded a Technip-led consortium an EPC contract to build the 16.5 mtpa Yamal LNG facility on the Yamal Peninsula, near Sabetta port in West Siberia, Russia. Read more...
Siemens has been awarded a contract to deliver customised direct electrical heating power supply systems for ten subsea flowlines on the BP-operated Shah Deniz Phase II project in the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan. Read more...
The UK Government has awarded Contracts for Difference (CfDs) for eight renewable energy projects worth up to £12 billion in private sector investment. Read more...
A GDF Suez-led consortium has won the French Government’s US$5.6 billion tender to build and operate two 500MW offshore wind farms in Tréport, Upper Normandy, and the Isles of Yeu and Noirmoutier, Pays de la Loire. Read more...
China’s second bidding round for shale gas blocks recently attracted significant interest with 19 blocks awarded to 57 companies for exploration. Read more...
The US Department of Energy has selected Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group to receive a US$2.5 million award for Phase 2 development of iron-based Coal Direct Chemical Looping technology. Read more...
CO2 Solutions Inc. has exceeded a second set of technical performance milestones for its project to capture CO2 from an oil sands project using enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology. Read more...
The UK and Japan have agreed to increase co-operation on international climate change and energy security issues in a meeting between Energy Secretary Ed Davey and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. Read more...
The UK Trade & Investment has announced that Dominic Jermey, the former British Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, will become its new Chief Executive. Read more...
The Brazilian National Electricity Agency has awarded Abengoa a contract for the engineering, design, construction, maintenance and commissioning of the two transmission lines in Brazil. Read more...
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission has given Indianapolis Power & Light Company the green light to build a 650MW combined-cycle gas turbine power plant near Martinsville and to convert Units 5 and 6 at the Harding Street Generation Station from coal to natural gas. Read more...
Hyundai Heavy Industries has awarded Yokogawa a contract to supply power systems for the 2.9GW Jeddah South super-critical oil-fired power plant in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Read more...
Wärtsilä has been awarded a contract to supply a 60MW gas-fired power plant to the City of Alexandria in Louisiana for long-term supply of peaking power. Read more...
Fugro GEOS is leading a project with Sonardyne, NOC and the British Geological Survey, Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the University of to develop a monitoring system using marine robotics to provide assurance that deep sea carbon dioxide storage sites are secure. Read more...
