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Vodafone Romania and OMV Petrom have completed the trial of the standardised NarrowBand-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology in the oil and gas industry.

OAO Yamal LNG (Yamal LNG) was granted State permission to commission the main technological facilities of the LNG plant’s first stage, including the first liquefaction train, 58 gas wells and the respective infrastructure.

In November, Statoil announced that it had fully commissioned Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating wind farm. The company said that it planned to add battery storage to the project in the coming year. Today, Younicos announced that it will be working with Statoil on the 1-MW/1.3-MWh battery that will be connected to the wind farm.

In a move that would help offshore wind farms and fishing industries coexist in the U.S., Deepwater Wind recently pledged $1 million in research funding for the University of Massachusetts.

Wind turbine operators are under tremendous pressure to minimize maintenance costs and maximize turbine availability in order to protect profits. A vibration monitoring strategy can help engineers can establish a robust preventative maintenance regime and boost reliability. 

According to one expert, utilities need a paradigm shift in planning when it comes to recouping the full value and receiving all of the benefits of the next wave energy storage. 

(Tue, 28 Nov 2017) In North Dakota’s Bakken region, the ratio of natural gas production relative to crude oil, known as the gas-oil ratio, has been gradually increasing since 2008 and has increased at a faster rate since 2014. More than 90% of North Dakota’s crude oil and natural gas production comes from the Bakken region, which includes the Bakken and Three Forks formations.

State-owned firm Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) is planning to invest over AED400bn ($109bn), over the next five years, to boost oil and gas output as well as strengthen downstream activities.

US-based Honeywell UOP has bagged a contract to provide a variety of process technologies to the Al-Zour Refinery in Kuwait which is reported to be built with an investment of around $16bn by Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (KIPIC).

To serve twenty-first century needs, legacy grids need the ability to accommodate new demands such as intermittent generation sources and increasingly ubiquitous distributed energy resources (DERs) located throughout the transmission network.

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