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Vattenfall plans to expand UK offshore wind farm
Swedish energy firm Vattenfall intends to expand its 300-megawatt Thanet offshore wind farm off the coast of Kent in southern England, as it stated, after abandoning the idea in 2010 because of grid constraints.
read more... 06/01/2017
Chevron restarts operation at Gorgon LNG train 1 after an outage of a month
Chevron Corp declared on Wednesday it has restarted production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at one of its two units at the $54 billion Gorgon project, situated off Western Australia, after an outage of a bit more than a month.
read more... 06/01/2017
Russia's Novatek will inaugurate first Yamal LNG train with no extra financing
Russia's Novatek intends to inaugurate its first train with 5.5 million tonnes of yearly LNG capacity in Yamal in 2017, and this will involve no extra financing, as stated on Thursday by Stanislav Shevkunov, a department manager at Novatek.
read more... 11/03/2016
Daily: Oil prices trade below psychological threshold of $30 a barrel for first time since 12 years
Crude oil prices lost 3 % on Tuesday, posting a seventh straight daily decline for oil. Oil prices shed briefly below $30-per-barrel level, which is both a psychological and financial threshold and prolonging a selloff that has trimmed prices by almost 20% this year. Benchmark Brent crude slipped 69 cents to settle at $30.86, after bottoming at $30.34. U.S. WTI dropped 97 cents to close at $30.44 a barrel, a 3.1% loss, after hitting a low of $29.93, which was last recorded in December 2003. The decline was prompted by intensifying concerns about sluggish demand in China and the lack of output restraint.
read more... 13/01/2016
Finland to curtail wind power development amid high subsidies costs
Finland is planning to prune wind power developments and curb subsidy costs, restraining a boom that exceeded government expectations.
read more... 04/09/2015