Energy Update
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä is set to deliver a 15-MW solar PV plant in Burkina Faso — creating Africa’s largest thermal-solar PV hybrid power plant. The solar PV development will be integrated with an existing 55-MW Wärtsilä thermal plant (running on heavy fuel oil), to power IAMGOLD’s Essakane Mine, 330km northeast of the Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou.
(Fri, 04 Aug 2017) Nearly 59 million barrels per day (b/d) of global petroleum and other liquids production moved on maritime routes in 2015, or almost 61% of the world total. Many of these products transited the Suez Canal and SUMED Pipeline, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Strait of Hormuz chokepoints around the Arabian Peninsula.
Petrochemicals, also known as petroleum distillates, are derived from various chemical compounds, mainly from hydrocarbons. These hydrocarbons are derived from crude oil, natural gas or renewable sources such as corn or sugar cane. Petrochemicals are primarily divided into three classes depending on their chemical structure – olefins, aromatics and synthesis gas (a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen).
Tekmar Energy (Tekmar), global leaders in cable and SURF protection, has recently completed the successful delivery of j-tube seals and bend restrictors for the Oseberg Vestflanken 2 project.
MEC Resources advised that its investee company, Advent Energy (Advent) has received an initial assessment of its environment plan (EP) from the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environment Management Authority (NOPSEMA) for the planned 2D high resolution seismic survey in PEP11, offshore Sydney Basin.
Late this fall President Trump is going to decide how to implement any recommendation made by the International Trade Commission in the Suniva/SolarWorld trade case.
Jenn Runyon, Chief Editor of Renewable Energy World and Paula Mints, Chief Market Research Analyst with SPV Market Research discuss three hot topics in the global solar industry for three minutes each. Today’s topics an update on 201, aka the fast-tracked trade case against China, Green Mountain Power's innovative off-grid program and how smart inverters could change the game for residential and commercial solar + battery owners. Check it out!
(Thu, 03 Aug 2017) As of July 2017, thirty states and the District of Columbia have adopted energy efficiency policiesâeither mandated requirements, voluntary goals, or pilot programsâdesigned to lower the growth of electricity consumption by using electricity more efficiently.
DNV GL surveyors have carried out the classification society’s first offshore drone survey on the semisubmersible vessel Safe Scandinavia in the North Sea.
ION Geophysical Corporation (ION) has announced a new 3D multi-client broadband reimaging program offshore the Western Gulf of Mexico using the Mexican National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) data library.
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