An Aberdeen firm is showcasing new wearable technology which it says can “reignite” the North Sea’s position as a global leader.
Management consultancy and technology services firm Accenture has said the wearable helmet-mounted cameras and arm-mounted tablets let offshore workers do their jobs more efficiently, which helps companies lower costs.
Industry experts have said the needs to reduce its cost base if it is to survive the current downturn, which has seen crude prices nose dive from more than $110 per barrel in summer 2014 to less than $35 today.
North Sea oil pioneer Algy Cluff insisted yesterday plans for unconventional gas extraction in the Firth of Forth were not dead.
He was speaking after his company said it was switching its “primary focus” away from the firth to pursue underground coal gasification (UCG) projects in England, and conventional oil and gas developments in the North Sea.
Green groups which recently led a protest against his Scottish UCG plans said it was a “massive victory” for campaigners but the issue would not be buried until his firm handed back its UCG licences.
Renewable energy developer React Energy has secured a €750,000 loan from Spanish firm EBIOSS Energy, as it develops its clean energy portfolio in the UK and Ireland.
GE Power Convention is stepping up its presence in the renewables sector in China.
The company recently signed a deal which will see it equipping Sewind’s offshore wind turbines with its 4MW fully fed LV3 wind converters.
Global Bioenergies and Audi have struck a deal to collaborate as they look to broaden the feedstock flexibility of the company’s Isobutene process.
The company is currently developing a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation.
Statoil has awarded M-I Swaco a four-year NK500 million for new tank cleaning technology for supply vessels that offers a safer, environmentally friendly solution.
Fuel cell developer Intelligent Energy's acquisition of energy management business GTL to a significant step forward after receiving clearance from India's competition authority.
The Government has been accused of “irrational” curbs to renewables subsidies after official projections revealed lower than expected energy bills by 2020.
Ministers have said cuts to support for technology such as onshore wind and solar are necessary to prevent rising costs to consumers and to curb the projected overspend on the £7.6 billion budget by 2020 for a raft of green measures paid for on bills.
But emails obtained by climate change analysis website Carbon Brief under Freedom of Information rules reveal Government projections which show that, while the overspend will add £12 to average household bills by 2020, overall bills would be £97 lower.
An Aberdeen-based not-for-profit organisation aims to continue to support young people to pursue a career in engineering through a series of events taking place in 2016.
It’s designed to recycle spent uranium from Japan’s nuclear power plants, consists of more than three dozen buildings spread over 740 hectares (1,829 acres), costs almost $25 billion and has been under construction for nearly three decades. Amount of fuel successfully reprocessed for commercial use: zero.
The 270-megawatt Hornsdale Wind Farm, under construction about 220km north of Adelaide, has won a contract to deliver an additional 100 megawatts of power to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
The UK wind power industry enjoyed a record breaking 2015 against the backdrop of Tory Government cuts to green energy subsidies.
Onshore and offshore turbines combined forces to generate 11% of the UK’s wind last year, up from 9.5% in 2014, RenewableUK said today, citing National Grid statistics supplied by independent data analysts EnAppSys.
A new monthly record was set in December, with wind satisfying 17% of UK energy demand. The previous record of 14% was set in January 2015.
A new generation of pipeline robotics that can extend the life of large diameter cast iron pipeline infrastructure could help save time and money for utility companies.
Record-low coal prices and increased wind and solar generation that pushed European power prices to their lowest in a decade may cause further declines in 2016.
Average day-ahead electricity prices in Germany, Europe’s biggest market, fell 3.2 percent to 31.70 euros ($34.65) per megawatt-hour in 2015, the least since 2004 on the Epex Spot SE exchange in Paris before the last auction later Wednesday.
Northwest Europe coal fell 33 percent while the share of Germany’s energy demand met by renewable output increased by four percentage points to 30 percent, according to preliminary figures by utility lobby BDEW.
