The world’s largest offshore wind power farm is under construction off England in the North Sea, but it won’t hold the title for long, as a Swedish developer plans a much larger wind farm further offshore in deeper waters, the Wall Street Journal reported. Because there is little room in its crowded
A review by independent consultancy Pöyry AS, entitled ‘Wind Energy and Electricity Prices’, asserts that wind energy reduces electricity… [mappress] Source: proactiveinvestors, April 21, 2010; windenergyplanning
As New Englanders await a decision in Massachusetts on a bitterly contested proposal to build the nation’s first offshore wind farm, the… [mappress] Source:BangkokPost, April 21, 2010;
As New Englanders await a decision in Massachusetts on a bitterly contested proposal to build the nation’s first offshore wind farm, the… [mappress] Source:BangkokPost, April 21, 2010;
She’ll speak Wednesday morning at a conference sponsored by the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association. The two-day conference started… [mappress] Source: wjtv, April 21, 2010;
Yangzijiang Shipbuilders, together with its nonexecutive director Yu Kebing and an unnamed Middle East investor, have offered to buy Singaporebased PPL Holdings for US$155 million , the company said on Saturday. When the deal is completed, Yangzijiang will own 50.1 per cent of PPL Holdings, while th
CNOOC Limited announced today that the Company has successfully made an important new discovery — Penglai(PL)9-1 in the Eastern Bohai Bay. The new discovery — PL9-1 is located in the Miaoxibei Uplift in the Eastern Bohai Bay. The discovery well PL9-1-2 penetrated oil pay zones with total thickness o
CREATING an industrial revolution on the Tyne has been unveiled as a key strand of Labour’s North East manifesto.The party’s manifesto co… [mappress] Source: chroniclelive, April 20, 2010;
CREATING an industrial revolution on the Tyne has been unveiled as a key strand of Labour’s North East manifesto.The party’s manifesto co… [mappress] Source: chroniclelive, April 20, 2010;
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan group of five U.S. Senators introduced legislation today that would spur research on potential offshore wind projects, expand incentives for offshore wind development, and require the Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a comprehensive roadmap for the deployment of
PNE WIND AG has taken a further step in the financing of their offshore wind farm project “Gode Wind II” by mandating Energy Bankers à Paris [mappress] Source: tradesignalonline, April 19, 2010;
Dresser Masoneilan today announced that it has been named the emergency shutdown device (ESD) supplier for BP’s floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the Plutao, Saturno, Venus and Marte oil fields off the coast of Angola, Africa. Dresser Masoneilan will supply SVI II ESD anal
ATP Oil & Gas Corp. said that the Minerals Management Service has accepted ATP’s bid of $232,100 for Garden Banks Block 782, also known as Entrada. ATP said it made the bid at the Central Gulf of Mexico Offshore Lease Sale 213 held in March 2010. It said that previous exploration drilling on Garden
Seadrill has a letter of intent from Statoil for a new harsh environment jackup to drill on the Norwegian continental shelf. The five-year contract has an estimated value of around $650 million, including a $24-million mobilization fee, and is due to start in summer 2011. Statoil has an option to ex
