2327 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

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  • Diamond Offshore’s CEO designates 2023 as ‘transformational year’ with multi-million-dollar rig deals in the bag

    28 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Diamond Offshore is looking forward to reaping the benefits of higher day rates once its rigs move to their new contracts that poured in during 2023.

  • Greenpeace activists board Shell’s North Sea platforms

    14 October 2019

    Greenpeace activists from the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark boarded two oil platforms in Shell’s Brent field on Monday.

  • Shetland Bidding to Become Global Leader in Decommissioning

    20 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Shetland is bidding to become a global leader in a multi-billion pound industry as a result of over £20million of investment announced by Cabinet Secretary John Swinney. A set of multi-million pound investments by Lerwick Port Authority and international energy logistics company Peterson aims to create a decommissioning centre of excellence around Lerwick. Lerwick Port […]

  • Shetland to become leading decom hub in Northern North Sea?

    20 August 2014

    £20m investment in Shetland to secure its place as a global decommissioning centre of excellence.

  • USA: Chevron’s Second Quarter Profit Drops

    27 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Chevron Corporation reported earnings of $7.2 billion ($3.66 per share – diluted) for the second quarter 2012, compared with $7.7 billion ($3.85 per share – diluted) in the 2011 second quarter. Sales and other operating revenues in the second quarter 2012 were $60 billion, compared to $67 billion in the year-ago period. “Our second quarter […]

  • New Dredging Projects for More than 1 Billion Euros Awarded to Jan De Nul Group

    4 February 2011

      Over the last couple of months, a total of more than 1 billion euros projects have been added to the order book. These awards bring the total value of current commitments for Jan De Nul Group to 3.1 billion euros. New work was secured in all corners of the world, from South America and […]

  • New Dredging Projects for More Than 1 Billion Euros Awarded to Jan De Nul Group

    6 February 2011
    Project & Tenders

    Over the last couple of months, a total of more than 1 billion euros projects have been added to the order book. These awards bring the total value of current commitments for Jan De Nul Group to 3.1 billion euros. New work was secured in all corners of the world, from South America and the […]

  • Most read articles of 2017

    1 January 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Tidal Energy Today is bringing you the list of the articles you read the most in 2017.

  • UK govt to speed up new energy projects, including five oil & gas developments

    26 September 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    UK government plans to accelerate various energy projects, including five oil and gas as well as several CCS, hydrogen, and offshore wind projects.

  • FMC Technologies, Total pen subsea systems deal

    16 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    FMC Technologies, Inc. has received an order from Total to supply subsea systems for its Edradour and Glenlivet fields offshore in the West of Shetland area. FMC Technologies’ scope of supply consists of subsea equipment including manifolds and associated connections and controls equipment, wellhead systems, subsea tie back connection equipment and a subsea production tree. […]

  • NKT begins installing Shetland link onshore cable

    16 July 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    NKT has begun the installation of the 10-kilometer onshore cable for the 600 MW Shetland HVDC project in Scotland. The onshore cable will run from the converter station at Kergord in Shetland and the Switching Station at Noss Head in Caithness to the subsea cable landfall points. NKT has also started work on the manufacture […]

  • Will the UK’s huge new oil & gas project overcome the hurdles in its path?

    5 December 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Rosebank, located West of Shetland, is now facing additional obstacles that may hinder its progress and delay the sanctioning yet again.

  • BP and Partners to Invest USD 15.6 Billion in UK Oil and Gas Development

    13 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

      BP and its partners are developing four new oil and gas projects that together will involve a total investment of almost £10 billion in the UK’s oil industry over the next five years and help to maintain BP’s production from the North Sea for decades to come. The UK Government today granted BP and […]

  • Round up: Major multi-billion oil & gas projects greenlighted in 2023

    2 January 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    While multiple new oil and gas projects were sanctioned throughout 2023, the top eight ones are listed in this article.

  • UK’s Cairn Buys Norway’s Agora Oil & Gas

    3 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    Cairn announces the acquisition of Agora Oil & Gas AS (Agora) subject to regulatory approval, a private Norwegian company with non-operated, exploration, appraisal and development assets in the United Kingdom (UK) and Norwegian North Sea. The enterprise value of the proposed acquisition of Agora as at 1 January 2012 was $375 million (m), including $58m […]

  • Hallin Installs Tidal Turbine in Orkney Island (Scotland)

    18 August 2011
    Technology

    Hallin Marine, a Superior Energy Services company, has successfully completed the installation of the world’s most powerful single rotor subsea tidal turbine in Orkney Island, Scotland. Hallin was contracted by Atlantis Resources Corporation (Atlantis) to provide specialist services as an experienced integrated subsea contractor to plan install the 1 megawatt tidal turbine AR-1000 at the […]

  • Shetland to mainland subsea power link approved

    17 July 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Transition

    Energy regulator Ofgem has approved the 600MW HVDC subsea transmission link connecting Shetland to the Scottish mainland. The link, advanced by SSEN Transmission, will facilitate the connection of renewable electricity developments on Shetland. This includes SSE Renewables’ 443 MW Viking wind farm which reached a final investment decision (FID) in June 2020. The link will […]

  • Scotland: Hallin Installs Tidal Turbine in Orkney Island

    18 August 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Hallin Marine, a Superior Energy Services company, has successfully completed the installation of the world’s most powerful single rotor subsea tidal turbine in Orkney Island, Scotland. Hallin was contracted by Atlantis Resources Corporation (Atlantis) to provide specialist services as an experienced integrated subsea contractor to plan install the 1 megawatt tidal turbine AR-1000 at the […]

  • Shell and Equinor weeks away from court fight over two mega oil & gas projects in UK waters

    24 October 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    The legal battle that may decide the fate of two of the largest undeveloped oil and gas fields off the coast of the United Kingdom (UK) is fast approaching with less than three weeks left until the set date.

  • Nicaragua: President Proposes Calero Island Wetlands Restoration

    5 August 2011

    The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, announced to propose to his Costa Rican counterpart, Laura Chinchilla, organize a global… (insidecostarica) [mappress] Source: insidecostarica, August 5, 2011

  • Cars powered by tidal energy facilitating Scotland’s drive to net-zero

    22 March 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Technology, Transition

    Scottish tidal energy company Nova Innovation has created the first ever electric vehicle (EV) charge point in Shetland where drivers can ‘fill up’ directly from a tidal power source.

  • UK: Islands push for tidal, wave strike price confirmation

    6 July 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    High-level talks have been held with the UK government aimed at ensuring long term benefits for Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles from renewable energy.

  • Offshore facility electrification to slash O&G industry’s CO2 emissions, Axiom says

    8 July 2020
    Environment, Exploration & Production, Research & Development, Technology, Transition

    Offshore energy research and advisory firm Axiom has studied how the electrification of platforms can have a meaningful impact on the carbon intensity of offshore oil and gas production. The above chart highlights Axiom’s view on how the 2020-2024 fixed production market has evolved through February to June 2020. Recent market conditions have pushed operators […]

  • Are major UK oil projects at risk after windfall tax?

    21 June 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    Operators of two major oil projects located off the UK are laying the groundwork to sanction them next year. This comes at a time when the UK government has imposed the windfall tax on oil and gas profits so the question arises as to the effects of this new tax on these projects.

  • Shetland Composites wins contract from Nova Innovation

    1 December 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Shetland Composites has secured the six month contract from Edinburgh-based Nova Innovation who is developing five 100kW tidal turbines known as the Shetland Tidal Array. A Shetland company will manufacture blades for a bank of tidal turbines that will power 300 homes, Deputy First Minister John Swinney announced today. The turbines, which sit more than […]