icegram campaigns=”30234″]Shell said Wednesday it’s working towards safe resumption of operations at a crude oil facility in the Niger Delta, after hundreds of protesters last week invaded the flow station demanding jobs and infrastructure development. A spokesman for Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) told Kallanish Energy a group of individuals … Read more
Royal Dutch Shell said Wednesday it completed the $9.45 billion sale via three Canadian units and two deals of all its Canadian in-situ (in-ground) and undeveloped oil sands assets interests, and reducing its share in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP) from 60% to 10%. Under the first agreement, Shell completed the … Read more
French state-controlled utility firm EDF is “secretly planning” to extend the lifespan of 58 nuclear reactors in France by 10 to 20 years, pushing back the country’s energy mix targets, local BFM television reported Monday. Citing an internal EDF plan, BFM said the nuclear giant intended to delay targets outlined in France’s 2015 energy … Read more
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced WPX Energy Appalachia has agreed to pay a $1.2 million fine for oil and gas violations that impacted groundwater and private water supplies in Westmoreland County, Kallanish Energy reports. “When leaks and other impacts do occur, the responsible party must remediate the damage and restore the resource,” said acting … Read more
The two nuclear reactors under construction at the Taishan nuclear power plant in China’s Guangdong Province will not come online until the second half of 2017 and the first half of 2018 — some six months later than originally scheduled. Taishan 1 and 2 are the first two reactors based on French firm Areva’s EPR design … Read more
Austrian steelmaker voestalpine has joined Siemens and utility Verbund for the project “H2Future” to test the viability of using so-called “green hydrogen” as a fuel in the steelmaking process. The partners this week signed for the construction of one of the largest such demonstration plants in the world at the voestalpine site in Linz, according … Read more
Investment manager Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) said Wednesday it invested over $400 million for its clients in the Grande Prairie Wind project (GPW), Kallanish Energy finds. GPW is a 400-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Holt County, Nebraska – the largest wind energy project in the state’s history – owned by BHE Renewables, a Berkshire Hathaway … Read more
Thirty-nine months after it occurred, a 20,000-barrel (Bbl) oil spill in North Dakota still isn’t fully cleaned up – and the company responsible for the accident has yet to set a date for completion. Though crews have been working 24/7 to deal with the Tesoro pipeline break, which happened in in September 2013, less than … Read more
A 119-turbine wind farm in Aroostook County that would have been the largest in Maine and one of the largest ever planned for New England has withdrawn its application, citing interconnection problems. EDP Renewables has told the Maine Department of Environmental Protection that it’s not going forward for now with the Number Nine Wind Farm, … Read more
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