Royal Dutch Shell's chief executive officer, Ben van Beurden, declared on Thursday the $70 billion purchase of British competitor BG Group is on track and fits into Shell's plans to raise the share of natural gas in its portfolio.
read more... 19/06/2015
Gazprom Neft, a branch of Gazpromneft Sakhalin, has been granted subsoil-use rights to two licence blocks in the Russian Arctic.
read more... 20/01/2015
French power group GDF Suez has acquired the UK-based wind energy developer West Coast Energy (WCE), strengthening its commitment to expand its wind portfolio in the UK, as well as in Europe.
read more... 31/03/2014
ExxonMobil Corp., the super giant oil company, has the intention to reduce expenditures and to begin production simultaneously at 10 significant projects this year, adding to its portfolio a net capacity of 300,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
read more... 11/03/2014
Wind was Spain's top electricity generator for the first six months of 2013. Spain has a vigorous and varied renewable energy portfolio that has considerably reduced its dependence on fossil fuels. Currently Spain imports more than 80% of its gas and coal for domestic use from abroad, making energy security a national precedence. Along with significant growth in solar energy and biofuels, wind energy has become a cornerstone of the Spanish renewable energy portfolio.
read more... 13/01/2014