After Avangrid Renewables, which recently built North Carolina’s first onshore wind farm, won the rights to develop an offshore wind project off Kitty Hawk for more than USD 9 million, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) hailed the potential effect of the offshore wind industry on the state’
Less than nine months after the inauguration of the Expanded Panama Canal, the waterway has welcomed the 1,000th transit of a Neopanamax vessel. MSC Anzu, a 8,800 TEU containership owned by Swiss Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), made the 1,000th transit on March 19, heading northbound from the
Perth-based Liquefied Natural Gas Limited said that Transport Canada’s Termpol review committee completed the review of Bear Head LNG’s marine terminal systems and transshipment sites.
Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found four improvement points during its audit of Repsol’s emergency preparedness and the helideck at the Gyda platform in the North Sea off Norway. The Gyda field is located in the southern North Sea between Ula and Ekofisk.
UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has joined the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) on the on-going Hypo-Lias project to explore hydrocarbon potential of Jurassic rock formations across the Southern North Sea (SNS). OGA said on Monday that the project, executed as part of
The South Australian government’s plan for accelerating exploration gas grants will enable more gas to be delivered to the market, according to the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association.
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