(Equinor, 23.Jun.2023) — Equinor’s second Polish solar plant, ZagĂłrzyca has started test production. This is another step towards building a material renewable portfolio in Poland, which is one of Europe’s most rapidly growing renewable energy markets. “Equinor aims to be a reliable energy partner for Poland and support its energy transition. […]
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Venture Global LNG and SEFE Ink 20yr SPAÂ
(Venture Global LNG, 22.Jun.2023) — Venture Global LNG and SEFE Securing Energy for Europe GmbH (SEFE) announced the execution of a long-term Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA). Under the agreement, SEFE’s subsidiary, WINGAS GmbH, will purchase 2.25 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from CP2 LNG, Venture […]
Noria Energy Launches Urrá Floating Solar Project
(Noria Energy, 22.Jun.2023) — A new solar power system floating on the reservoir at Colombia’s Urrá Dam will demonstrate that hydroelectric dams dealing with fluctuating water levels can pair with floating solar generation to boost energy reliability and increase production. Noria Energy conceived and led development of the 1.5 MW solar project, which is […]
Equinor Inks LNG Purchase Agreement with Cheniere
(Equinor, 21.Jun.2023) — Today, 21 June 2023, Equinor and Cheniere have announced a new 15-year purchase agreement of around 1.75 million tonnes of LNG per year, with half of the volume starting from 2027. This agreement brings the total volumes that Equinor has contracted with Cheniere up to around 3.5 million tonnes […]
TGT Redefines Acoustics for Well Flow Diagnostics
(TGT, 21.Jun.2023) — TGT Diagnostics announced the launch of its latest acoustic platform, ChorusX, a new diagnostic resource specifically designed to locate and characterise flow in oil and gas wells. This all-new acoustic array platform enables energy companies to find and map fluid flow throughout the well-reservoir system with greater ease […]
Kapsarc Joins Efforts to Boost Global Dialogue
(KAPSARC, 21.Jun.2023) — The King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) announces its recent accreditation of observer status by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), marking another significant milestone in its journey as a leading advisory think tank, actively participating in global dialogues pertaining to energy, climate, and the environment. […]
DNV Buys Nixu in Cyber Security Play
(DNV, 20.Jun.2023) — DNV, the global risk management and quality assurance provider, will fully acquire Helsinki-headquartered cyber security services firm Nixu following a public tender offer which resulted in DNV taking ownership of more than 93% of Nixu’s shares. DNV will combine its cyber security businesses with Nixu following a process […]
TotalEnergies to Supply Biomethane to Saint-Gobain
(TotalEnergies, 20.Jun.2023) — TotalEnergies has signed a 100 GWh biomethane purchase agreement with Saint-Gobain France for a three-year period starting in 2024. The biomethane will be produced by TotalEnergies at its BioBĂ©arn biomethane plant, which came on stream at the beginning of the year and whose production is certified sustainable by […]
QatarEnergy Selects CNPC as NFE Partner
(QatarEnergy, 20.Jun.2023) — QatarEnergy signed definitive agreements with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), covering the long-term supply of LNG to China and partnership in the North Field East LNG expansion project (NFE). The two parties signed an LNG Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA) for the delivery of 4 million tons of LNG […]
Cuban Officials Return from Russia with Promises of Oil
(Reuters, 20.Jun.2023) — A delegation of high-level Cuban officials wrapped up an extended visit to Russia, according to state-run media reports on Tuesday, following up on the nearly 30 trade agreements signed between the allies in Havana in May. Longtime political allies Cuba and Russia – both subject to U.S. […]
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Woodside makes $7.2bn FID for Trion offshore Mexico [PDF download]
PERTH, AUSTRALIA (By Woodside, 20.Jun.2023, Words: 257) — Woodside has made a final investment decision to develop the large, high-quality Trion resource in Mexico. The expected returns from the development exceed Woodside’s capital allocation framework targets and deliver enduring shareholder value. First oil is targeted for 2028. The development is subject to […]
Tecpetrol Updates on Alpha Lithium Offer
(Tecpetrol, 19.Jun.2023) — Tecpetrol Investments S.L., a member of the Techint Group, announced the following updates to shareholders of Alpha Lithium Corporation with respect to its offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Alpha, a Canadian incorporated, headquartered and listed company. Continued Willingness to Engage and […]
TAG Oil on BED 1-7 Well Production
(TAG Oil Ltd., 19.Jun.2023) — TAG Oil Ltd. (TSXV: TAO) (OTCQX: TAOIF) provided the following operations update at the BED-1 Field in the Western Desert, Egypt: BED 1-7 Well Production Since initial flowback of the BED 1-7 well on 23 April 2023, the well started by unloading to surface completion fluid from the fracture stimulation […]
Energy Innovations to Collaborate with Maas Energy
(Energy Innovations, 19.Jun.2023) — Energy Innovations has received orders from Maas Energy Works for the fabrication and delivery of two Biogas Upgrading units, with joint plans for additional units thereafter. The commitment marks a significant milestone for Energy Innovations as a packager of CO-2 removal, H2S removal, and associated gas handling […]
Desert Mountain Buys Helium-bearing Gas Field
(Desert Mountain Energy, 19.Jun.2023) — Desert Mountain Energy Corp. (TSXV: DME) (U.S. OTC: DMEHF) (Frankfurt: QM01) has signed a binding letter of intent to purchase the Pecos Slope West Abo Gas Field and gas gathering system located in Chaves County, New Mexico. The company will close the purchase on 30 June 2023, from a privately […]
Pamesa Group to Launch Hydrogen-Based Fuel
(Pamesa Group, 15.Jun.2023) — The Pamesa Group has become the first company worldwide to use a hydrogen-based fuel to replace natural gas in its production process in partnership with eCombustible Energy. This fuel is completely free of carbon emissions. Going forward, the Pamesa Group plans to implement this fuel in all its operations. eCombustible is […]
TotalEnergies Nigerian Find Largest in a Decade
(WoodMac, 16.Jun.2023) — Addressing TotalEnergies discovery at Ntokon in the shallow water Niger Delta, Gail Anderson, director of upstream research at Wood Mackenzie, said “Ntokon is likely to be Nigeria’s biggest shallow water discovery in a decade. Despite the lack of exploration in recent times, this discovery shows that there is still […]
Ecopetrol Requests Disbursement of Financing Line
(Ecopetrol, 16.Jun.2023) — Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) informs that, as part of its strategy of integral debt management and refinancing of the 2023 maturities, it requests the disbursement of the resources associated to the financing line for an amount of COP 1tn, contracted with Bancolombia, that was announced to the market on 17 March […]
Guyana Postpones Offshore Auction to mid-August
(Reuters, 16.Jun.2023) — Guyana will postpone by about one month its first offshore oil blocks auction as the country finalizes new terms of the country’s oil and gas regulatory framework, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo told Reuters on Friday. The South American nation has three times before delayed the offer of 14 offshore […]
Ecopetrol Informs Resignation of VP of Corporate Affairs
(Ecopetrol, 16.Jun.2023) — Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) informs that the Vice President of Corporate Affairs and General Secretary, MarĂa Paula Camacho Rozo, resigned from her position effective 5 July 2023, to assume a new professional challenge in another company. The company appreciates the management and achievements of Maria Paula during her 25 years of work […]
Petrobras on Remuneration Payment to Shareholders
(Petrobras, 16.Jun.2023) — Petrobras, following up on the Material Facts disclosed on 03/01/2023, 04/27/2023 and 06/12/2023, informs that today it has paid 2nd installment of complimentary dividends approved in the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on 04/27/2023. The gross amount distributed today was adjusted by the Selic interest rate from […]
EverWind Supports Nova Scotia’s Offshore Wind Roadmap
(EverWind Fuels, 16.Jun.2023) — EverWind Fuels Company, Canada’s most advanced large-scale green hydrogen project, is supportive of Nova Scotia’s Offshore Wind Roadmap and the Province’s continued efforts to become a global leader in renewable energy. Nova Scotia is home to some of the world’s best offshore wind resources, with the potential to turn the province into a […]
NexGen on Voting Results from its 2023 Annual Meeting
(NexGen, 16.Jun.2023) — NexGen Energy Ltd. (TSX: NXE) (NYSE: NXE) (ASX: NXG) announced the voting results from its Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders, held on 15 June 2023. Shareholders voted in favour of all matters of business before the Meeting. Each of those matters is set out in detail in the […]
WCI Charity to Support Communities in SE Asia
(WCI, 16.Jun.2023) — International non-profit organization Wildlife Conservation International (WCI) has announced the public launch of Forests for People, a new charitable entity in New Zealand to support and enhance the welfare of indigenous communities in Southeast Asia. The new charity can receive tax-deductible donations from individuals, businesses and philanthropic organizations in New Zealand and direct them to projects […]
Venezuela’s Dictator Maduro is Shameless
(Miami Herald, 16.Jun.2023) — It’s official: The Venezuelan regime will pick a new electoral tribunal to oversee the 2024 presidential elections, and — guess what! — its members will be effectively picked by none other than dictator Nicolás Maduro’s wife. The dictatorship apparently decided to rig next year’s elections ahead of […]
Should Gas Resource Holders Target LNG Exports or Blue Ammonia?
(WoodMac, 15.Jun.2023) — As Europe moves away from Russian gas and Asia reduces its dependency on coal, demand and investment in liquefied natural gas (LNG) continues to rise. But according to “Stick or twist: Should gas resource holders target LNG exports or blue ammonia?”, a new Horizons report from Wood Mackenzie, the acceleration of the energy transition […]
Patterson-UTI and NexTier Enter Merger Deal Valued at $5.4bn
(Patterson-UTI Energy, 15.Jun.2023) — Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTEN) and NexTier Oilfield Solutions Inc. (NYSE: NEX) have entered into a definitive merger agreement to combine in an all-stock merger of equals transaction. The combined company, with an enterprise value of approximately $5.4bn, will be an industry leading drilling and completions services provider with operations in […]
Northstar on Execution of $8.75mn Term Sheet
(Northstar, 15.Jun.2023) — Northstar Clean Technologies Inc. (TSXV: ROOF) (OTCQB: ROOOF) entered into a term sheet with the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) for project financing of up to C$8.75mn in non-revolving senior secured debt. Proceeds from the BDC Financing will be used for the development and construction of the company’s planned asphalt shingle reprocessing facility […]
Canadian Solar Announces Manufacturing Facility in Texas
(Canadian Solar, 15.Jun.2023) — Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), headquartered in Guelph, Ontario, is establishing a solar PV module production facility in Mesquite, Texas. Canadian Solar is building a state-of-the-art solar photovoltaic module manufacturing plant with an annual output of 5 GW, equivalent to approximately 20,000 high-power modules per day. The new facility represents […]
Lithium South Enhanced Resource Update
(Lithium South, 15.Jun.2023) — Lithium South Development Corporation (TSX-V: LIS) (OTCQB: LISMF) (Frankfurt: OGPQ) is providing an update on the recently completed exploration program and status of the updated Mineral Resource Estimate that is currently underway for the Hombre Muerto North Lithium Project (HMN Li Project) in Salta Province, Argentina. All core samples have been […]
FlexCharging Launches EVision Managed Charging Solution
(FlexCharging, 15.Jun.2023) — FlexCharging, a provider of Electric Vehicle (EV) managed charging, announced the release of its EV grid integration and demand response software solution, EVision. The cloud-based application enables electric utility cooperatives (co-ops) and municipal utilities to launch their own managed charging programs. Tim Ellis, Energy Resources Director at Poudre Valley REA, a […]
Phillips 66 Completes Acquisition of DCP Midstream Units
(Phillips 66, 15.Jun.2023) — Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) and DCP Midstream, LP (NYSE: DCP) completed the previously announced acquisition by Phillips 66 of all the publicly held common units representing limited partner interests in DCP Midstream for $41.75 per common unit in cash at a total value of approximately $3.8bn, increasing […]
Frontera to Conserve, Restore and Grow 1 Trillion Trees by 2030
(Frontera, 15.Jun.2023) — Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) has joined the One Trillion Trees (1t.org) movement launched by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2020, with the global goal of conserving, restoring and growing one trillion trees by 2030. It is estimated that six trillion trees covered the planet. Now only […]
FleetZero and EVoke Systems to Provide Zero Emission Fleets
(Evoke Systems, 15.Jun.2023) — A new partnership facilitates open and scalable platform solutions for energy management challenges that fleets face when adopting and utilizing EVs and EV charging infrastructure. EVoke Systems and FleetZero Inc. announced a strategic partnership that enables FleetZero to distribute EVoke System’s open and scalable cloud platform for electric vehicle (EV) charging, energy […]
Pattern Energy Opens New Houston Location in Montrose
(Pattern Energy, 14.Jun.2023) — Pattern Energy Group LP, a leader in renewable energy and transmission infrastructure, moved the location of its Houston office to the Montrose neighborhood. The new office, in the Montrose Collective at 888 Westheimer Road, is now home to Pattern Energy’s growing workforce of 150 employees in Houston in a space designed to […]
JinkoSolar Launches G2 Battery into the European Market
(JinkoSolar, 14.Jun.2023) — JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (NYSE: JKS) officially launched its Second Generation of the High Voltage Energy Storage Battery into the European market. The upgraded product, JKR-B1250~2750-A (high voltage G2 battery) is a high-performance energy storage system designed for residential and small commercial applications. It features a self-developed Jinko HV battery […]
Canadian Solar Launches  Residential Energy Storage System EP Cube
(Canadian Solar, 14.Jun.2023) — Canadian Solar unveils its first residential energy storage system EP Cube, a self-designed-and-developed product by Eternalplanet, at Intersolar Europe 2023, marking another milestone in the European market. One of EP Cube’s remarkable advantages lies in its stylish design. The all-in-one design allows EP Cube to apply various […]
Mantra Closes Purchase of Bolivian PropertiesÂ
(Mantra, 13.Jun.2023) — Mantaro Precious Metals Corp. (TSXV: MNTR) (OTCQB: MSLVF) (FSE: 9TZ) closed its acquisition of two highly prospective licenses, being the East Trend and Media Sur properties, in the San Ramon Greenstone belt in Bolivia. Under the share purchase agreement with Jacob Garland (the “Vendor”), the company acquired all of the shares of […]
TotalEnergies Reveals Discovery Offshore Nigeria
(TotalEnergies, 13.Jun.2023) — TotalEnergies announces the Ntokon oil and gas discovery on OML102 offshore Nigeria. Located in shallow waters, 60 km off the southeast coast of Nigeria, the Ntokon-1AX discovery well encountered 38 meters of net oil pay and 15 meters of net gas pay, while its side-track Ntokon-1G1 encountered 73 meters […]
Air Products’ Equipment Selected for North Field South Project
(Air Products, 12.Jun.2023) — Air Products (NYSE: APD), the world’s leader in liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology and equipment, has been selected to provide its proprietary AP-X® LNG Process technology and equipment to Qatargas for the North Field South (NFS) Project in Ras Laffan, the State of Qatar. It includes the supply of two […]
Aker Awarded first SWIFT™ Contract by Equinor
(Aker Solutions, 12Jun.2023) — Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract by Equinor to deliver the first Submersible Wireless Installer for Tubing (SWIFT™) for 18 tubing hanger installations on the Johan Castberg field, an assignment expected to continue for two years, starting June 2024. Aker Solutions is thrilled to announce […]
Halliburton Wins Well Completion Contract for CCS Project
(Halliburton, 12.Jun.2023) — Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) has been awarded a contract to provide completions, liners, and monitoring products and services for the carbon capture and storage (CCS) system within the HyNet North West project in the Liverpool Bay (U.K.). The first CCS project commissioned in the U.K, the HyNet project […]
Mexico City Mayor Sheinbaum to Step Down Ahead of 2024 Elections
(Bloomberg, 12.Jun.2023) — Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum will resign from her post on June 16 to start her presidential campaign ahead of next year’s election. “I have made the decision to permanently resign from my post on June 16 with the purpose of becoming the first female in the history of […]
Tethys Oil’s May 2023 Production Update
(Tethys Oil, 12.Jun.2023) — Tethys Oil’s share of the production, before government take, from Blocks 3&4 onshore the Sultanate of Oman, in May 2023 amounted to 278,831 barrels of oil, corresponding to 8,995 barrels of oil per day. The Official Selling Price (OSP) for Oman Export Blend Crude Oil for the month […]
OCI Global Fuels First Ever Green Methanol Powered Container VesselÂ
(OCI Global, 12.Jun.2023) — OCI Global (Euronext: OCI) has announced it is fueling the first ever green methanol-powered container ship in a new partnership with A.P. Moller-Maersk. OCI will provide ISCC certified biomethanol to power the maiden voyage of Maersk’s first dual-fueled container ship, in a pioneering step towards the […]
COP28 Must Deliver for the Most Vulnerable:Â Al Jaber
(COP28 UAE, 11.Jun.2023) — COP28 President-Delegate, Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, met with heads of delegations and key negotiating groups including those from the Least Developed Countries (LDC) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) at the Bonn UN Climate Change Conference, being held in the run up to COP28, emphasizing the need to engage and […]
TotalEnergies Inks 25-year PPA for a 1 GW Wind Project in Kazakhstan
(TotalEnergies, 9.Jun.2023) — TotalEnergies confirms its commitment to the energy transition in Kazakhstan with the signature of a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the Mirny project. This will be the first PPA signed in the country for a wind project of such scale. Located in the Zhambyl region, the project aims to […]
The 1.5-degree Ambition is Becoming Increasingly Difficult to Achieve:Â Equinox
(Equinor, 8.Jun.2023) — Energy Perspectives paints the outcome space for the long-term development of the world’s energy markets. Driven by factors such as geopolitics, technology, climate and energy policy, and company and consumer behaviour, energy demand projections are made, but become increasingly uncertain the further out in time we forecast. The world […]
Ecopetrol on Arbitration Issued in Favor of Reficar
(Ecopetrol, 8.Jun.2023) — Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) informs that the International Chamber of Commerce decided in favor of RefinerĂa de Cartagena S.A.S (Reficar), a subsidiary company of Ecopetrol, in the framework of an arbitration proceeding against Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V., CB&I (UK) Limited and CBI Colombiana S.A. (collectively “CB&I”), […]
Petrobras on Potiguar ClusterÂ
(Petrobras, 7.Jun.2023) — Petrobras, following up on the releases disclosed on 01/31/2022 and 05/19/2023, informs that, after compliance with all the precedent conditions provided for in the binding contract signed on 01/31/2022, concluded today the transfer of its total stake (100%) in the set of 20 concessions of onshore and shallow water […]