Energy

Production in the Peregrino field in Brazil resumed on July 16, aiming to ramp up production and reduce emissions intensity.

Green energy infrastructure developer Cerulean Winds has revealed it will bid for four seabed lease sites to decarbonize the UK’s oil and gas sector as this scale will remove more emissions quickly, keep costs lower for platform operators and provide the anchor for large scale North-South offshore transmission.

Bombora Wave Power (Bombora) is entering the final test and assembly phase of the ground-breaking 1.5MW Pembrokeshire Demonstration Project, as it prepares to validate the world’s most powerful Wave Energy Converter.

New research provides detailed guidance and highlights key innovations still needed to help the floating offshore wind sector overcome technical challenges to reach commercial scale.

Clarksons Research has released onto its Renewables Intelligence Network (RIN) platform a new briefing profiling China’s offshore wind sector, including capacity forecasts, intelligence on vessel deployment and new province level analysis as part of an expansion of Chinese market content on RIN. Reviewing the data, Steve Gordon, Managing Director of Clarksons Research commented:

Getech, a geoenergy and green hydrogen company, is contracted to deploy its proprietary geospatial software and subsurface expertise to support the UK’s first carbon storage licensing round.

Offshore Operations Limited (OOL), provider of operational and technical support services to the offshore renewables industry, and part of the CSO Marine Group, has launched their full-service crew management offering.

Marine-i Programme Director, Professor Lars Johanning, welcomed delegates to the PRIMaRE conference which took place at the University of Exeter campus at Penryn on 6th and 7th July, 2022. Marine-i was one of the sponsors of this event.

North Star is currently building its first offshore wind fleet which has been chartered for at least the next decade in the North Sea. This includes four state of the art service operation vessels (SOVs) and associated daughter craft. The SOVs will be delivered to Lowestoft from early next year.

Ocean Energy Europe applauds the announcement of the first-ever tidal stream auction winners under the UK’s Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme.  The winning projects – Orbital Marine Eday 1 & 2, Morlais Magallanes and Meygen Phase 2 – will together generate over 40 MW of electricity for British homes and businesses.

On July 7, 2022, the UK Government confirmed that Hexicon AB’s TwinHub project in the Celtic Sea was successful in the latest Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round (AR4). It has been awarded a CfD for its 32MW floating wind project at a strike price of £87.30/MWh (2012 real prices) taking the project a significant step closer to completion.

Following a recent Westwood Insight on emissions performance of the UKCS, this insight looks at how Norway is performing and leverages data available in Westwood’s Northwest Europe E&P product, Atlas. Westwood takes a deep dive into Norway’s emissions forecast and the impact future electrification projects are expected to have.