Hundreds of jobs are to be created under an £80 million investment in a new wind turbine facility, it has been announced.German… [mappress] Source: peterboroughtoday, April 25, 2010;
Wind farms are much easier to build in Britain than in most of the rest of Europe, according to a study that contradicts claims by the… Source: timesonline, April 23, 2010;
The global move to offshore wind farm development is enabling nations to accelerate wind energy adoption while reducing reliance on land-… [mappress] Source: prminds, April 22, 2010;
The global move to offshore wind farm development is enabling nations to accelerate wind energy adoption while reducing reliance on land-… [mappress] Source: prminds, April 22, 2010;
Aban Offshore today announced that `Venture Drilling (a 50% indirect joint venture of the company) and Maersk Oil Angola (Maersk 0il) have reached a mutual agreement to amend their drilling contract relating to drillship Deep Venture, bringing the specified term of the contract to midnight of Apr. 2
Northern Offshore UK, a subsidiary of Northern Offshore, which is engaged in the provision of offshore contract drilling equipment and operating services for offshore oil and gas operators, has received a contract from Perenco UK, for the jackup Energy Enhancer. The contract is for a one-well progra
Tsakos Energy Navigation is reportedly close to signing a contract worth US$620 million for a new ultra-deepwater drillship, to be built at a South Korean yard. The order will be placed on condition that Tsakos firms up a five-year time-charter with a national oil company. The vessel to be ordered w
Oil services company Spectrum said it has started the fourth phase of its seismic programme in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The statement comes after the USA announced its Gulf of Mexico lease proposals, which called for the exploration and development of new offshore areas including the resource-ric
Aker Solutions has signed a frame agreement with Petrobras to supply 40 subsea trees for the Iara and Guará fields, located… [mappress] Source: Euroinvestor,April 20, 2010;
Neptune Marine Services Ltd (ASX: NMS) today announced that it has been contracted by Boskalis Australia to provide a range of diving support services on the Gorgon Project in Western Australia. Additional to the Gorgon works announced in January of this year, the latest contract comprises… [mappres
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;
