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BP, Shell put Sapref refinery on indefinite hold

14 February 2022

BP (UK) and Shell (UK) have announced plans to suspend operations at the Sapref refinery indefinitely.

Fuel contamination concerns lead NNPC to turn two gasoline tankers away

14 February 2022

NNPC has reportedly prevented two tankers that loaded up with gasoline in Antwerp from discharging in Lagos, citing concerns about the possibility that they might be carrying contaminated fuel.

Pouyanné says Mozambique LNG restart may take more than a year

14 February 2022

Patrick Pouyanné, the CEO of TotalEnergies (France), has qualified his recent statements about the possibility that work on the Mozambique LNG project may resume before the end of this year.

Aker to sell part of its shares in floating wind pioneer Principle Power to EDPR

14 February 2022

Aker Offshore Wind of Norway has agreed to sell part of its shares in Principle Power, the designer and manufacturer of floating foundations, to EDP Renovaveis and EDP Ventures SGPS of Portugal.

REM: Eni completes purchase of 20% of 1.2-GW Dogger Bank C offshore wind farm

14 February 2022

Eni has completed agreements to purchase of 20% of 1.2 GW Dogger Bank C offshore wind farm

Norway’s Equinor to revise offshore wind plans

14 February 2022

Norway’s energy company Equinor has told Reuters that it must revise its offshore wind plans because the Oslo government has decided that the first such offshore wind plants can only supply domestic power users.

ExxonMobil launches production at Liza-2

14 February 2022

ExxonMobil (US) and its partners launched commercial operations at the Liza-2 oilfield offshore Guyana on February 11, marking the start of their second development project at the Stabroek block.

California’s largest utilities gave $1.7M to coalition aiming to cut solar subsidies

13 February 2022

California’s three biggest utilities gave a total of about $1.7 million in 2020 to groups that support cutting the state’s generous rooftop solar subsidies, according to public records reviewed by an advocacy group.

France to seek 100GW of solar and 40GW of offshore wind by 2050

13 February 2022

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that country will have 100GW of solar by mid-century. He said too that France add up to 50 offshore wind projects or 40 GW of offshore wind generation capacity by 2050 and double onshore wind capacity.

Solar could have averted almost all of Texas' power problems in the deep freeze a year ago

13 February 2022

New research suggests that rooftop solar could have supplied more than enough electricity to meet the electricity shortfall a year ago in Texas on all but two of the 13 days when power production fell short of forecasted demand.