2320 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

2320 results found for 'Shetland Islands'
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  • 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 […]

  • TAQA enters 700 MW Northern Ireland-Scotland interconnector, route surveys on schedule

    29 May 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    UK expert submarine cable and survey services provider A-2-Sea Solutions has been appointed to carry out route surveys for a new HVDC subsea electricity interconnector that will link the Belfast region in Northern Ireland and the Ayrshire region in Scotland. The LirIC interconnector project will have a total cable route length of around 142 kilometers […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Rystad Energy: Top wildcat wells to watch this year

    19 February 2019

    Several wildcat wells planned for 2019 have the potential to be “elephant” finds, according to Norwegian oil and gas intelligence firm Rystad Energy.

  • 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.

  • Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland team up for ocean energy

    2 September 2016

    The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), Invest Northern Ireland and Scottish Enterprise launched a collaborative network aiming to intensify ocean energy development at an inaugural meeting held yesterday in Dublin.

  • Multi-billion investment on the horizon, as UK greenlights giant Rosebank oil field

    27 September 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    The North Sea Transition Authority has now given its blessing for the development of the controversial Rosebank field on the UKCS.

  • Equinor files key document ahead of plans to invest billions in UK oil and gas project

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

    Equinor has filed an ES related to the development of its Rosebank oil field located West of Shetland to the UK authorities

  • UK, Scotland Energy Authorities Work on Connecting Scottish Islands to Mainland

    27 June 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Storage

    Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing and UK Energy Secretary Ed Davey have jointly chaired a meeting of the Scottish Island Renewables Delivery Forum. Key decision makers met yesterday to agree a timetable for practical action to connect Scotland’s islands to the mainland transmission grid and unlock their huge potential to generate clean energy.   Mr Ewing […]

  • Best of 2014

    1 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Subsea World News brings you the most popular articles from the previous year (January 01 – December 31). The Best of 2014 represents the readers’ choice, based on the monthly statistics and general interest in the articles.           January: Stork Sells Its Subsea Division to N-Sea Group Stork Technical Services, the […]

  • UK, Scotland Energy Authorities Work on Connecting Scottish Islands to Mainland

    27 June 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Storage

    Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing and UK Energy Secretary Ed Davey have jointly chaired a meeting of the Scottish Island Renewables Delivery Forum. Key decision makers met yesterday to agree a timetable for practical action to connect Scotland’s islands to the mainland transmission grid and unlock their huge potential to generate clean energy.   Mr Ewing […]

  • Op-ed: Different rules, same game – Thinking differently about UK’s energy future

    28 October 2024
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    Terry Allan, CEO of Aberdeen-headquartered nexos, delves into the intricate complexities of the energy industry’s version of a high-stakes poker game in the United Kingdom (UK).

  • Total, Dong sanction Edradour field development

    3 July 2014

    French Total, together with its Danish partner DONG, has decided to launch the development of the Edradour gas field in the West of Shetland area, and has in addition acquired a 60% interest in the neighboring Glenlivet discovery. The tie backs of Edradour and Glenlivet to Laggan-Tormore are expected to add reserves of more than […]

  • Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland Eye Joint Subsea Network Development

    10 June 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The Scottish Government, acting on behalf of itself and its project partners the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in Northern Ireland and the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in Ireland, is commissioning a Business Plan to inform and encourage potential future development of a sub-sea electricity network, which would specifically facilitate the […]

  • Two Mare Island Wetland Sites Selected for Restoration Project (USA)

    24 November 2010

    Some Mare Island property that has technically qualified as wetlands may soon be enhanced to more properly fit the definition. The Vallejo… By Jessica A. York (timesheraldonline) [mappress] Source: timesheraldonline, November 25, 2010;