Wood and KBR Win Crux FEED Project Offshore Western Australia
HOUSTON – Wood and KBR,Inc. (NYSE: KBR) have secured a new multimillion dollar contract to deliver integrated front-end engineering design (FEED) for Shell Australia’s Crux project to build a not normally manned (NNM) platform and gas export pipeline located approximately 600km north of Broome, offshore Western Australia (WA). The Crux facilities will be an important source of backfill gas supply to the Shell-operated Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility. The remotely operate...
NEXT Renewable Fuels and Shell Trading (US) Company enter Renewable Diesel Purchase and Sale Agreement
(Houston) NEXT Renewable Fuels, Inc (NEXT) and Shell Trading (US) Company (Shell) have entered a long-term Purchase and Sale Agreement for the purchase of renewable diesel from NEXT’s planned Port Westward, Oregon facility. Representing an investment of more than $1 billion (USD), NEXT continues to develop its Oregon renewable diesel facility with an expected annual processing capacity of 13.3 million barrels (600 million gallons). Scheduled to open in 2021, NEXT will supply Shell and other par...
NEW REPORT Shows Urgent Need for Nevada Legislature to Further Advance Clean Energy
NV Energy’s recently-released December 2018 Renewable Generations report shows that, thanks to the work of the 2017 Legislature, there were nearly 15,000 applications for rooftop solar projects last year, with almost half of them already completed. This represents a 450 percent growth in solar applications over 2017 and would generate enough electricity to power 20,000 Nevada homes. These projects create jobs and reduce consumers’ utility bills, and were made possible thanks to one of the nine b...
Tri Global Energy First in Texas Wind Development for Fifth Consecutive Year
DALLAS - Tri Global Energy (TGE), a leading U.S. originator and developer of utility-scale wind energy projects, ended 2018 as it has for the past five years – the clear wind development leader in Texas, outpacing the nearest competitor in Texas by more than six times the number of megawatts either under construction or in advanced development. With a reported 2,689 MW of combined project capacity at the close of 2018, TGE also ranked fourth among the top five wind development leaders nationall...
Turning Natural Gas into Carbon Nanotubes Cuts Energy Use, Carbon Dioxide Emissions
HOUSTON – Rice University chemical and biomolecular engineer Matteo Pasquali and his colleagues have won a $3.3 million federal grant to develop a method to convert natural gas into carbon nanotubes for materials that can replace metals. The award comes from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), through it's OPEN+ initiative. OPEN+ announced seven awards in its second and third rounds of funding in December to groups advancing concrete and methane techn...
Sun Investment Group Calls for Closer Ties Between Businesses, Universities and European Union Institutions to Create Clean and Innovative Renewable Energy Market
The European Union is currently faced with the dilemma of having several of its member states already reach their 2020 renewable energy targets, but as a whole also being 55% dependent on imported energy from external supplies. By 2050, the EU wishes to run 100% on renewable power from itself, and energy experts believe that this goal can be achieved by the creation of a European “Energy Union.” This step would create a single market despite a number of other EU members predicted to not meet...
New Milestone: Demand for Renewable Electricity Surpasses 500 TWh in Europe
For the first time renewable energy demand in Europe surpasses 500 TWh - or half a billion Guarantees of Origin (GOs),” says Tom Lindberg, Managing Director in ECOHZ, commenting on 2018 statistics from the Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB).”If the growth trend from the last five years continues, the GO-market will soon surpass one billion Euro,” Tom Lindberg adds, noting “that customers are willing to pay a premium on certain origins of energy.” The European Union has previously mandated th...
Wärtsilä Energy Storage System Will Enable Greater Integration of Renewable Power on Caribbean Island of Bonaire
The technology group Wärtsilä has been awarded an integrated 6 MW energy storage project contract for the Caribbean island of Bonaire. The engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) hybrid energy project includes both the hardware, consisting of batteries and inverters, as well as GEMS, the energy management software from Greensmith Energy, a Wärtsilä company. The order with ContourGlobal Bonaire, a subsidiary of London based ContourGlobal, was booked in Q4, 2018. The energy storage sys...
EuroCape New Energy France Gets on Board with Greenbyte Energy Cloud for Data Management
The renewable energy independent power producer has chosen Greenbyte Energy Cloud for data analysis for their operational wind farms in France as well as the upcoming projects in their pipeline. In France, EuroCape New Energy has developed and built a portfolio of more than 100 MW over the last 10 years. Today EuroCape operates 77MW of wind energy, 3 MW of solar energy and has a targeted pipeline of 200 MW in development. Their operational French portfolio includes over 30 turbines from 4 dif...
Power Plant with Wärtsilä 31SG Engines to Secure Reliable Energy Supply in Harsh Climatic Conditions in Argentinian Oil Fields
The technology group Wärtsilä has been selected to supply a highly efficient engine power plant for one of the most important petroleum companies in Argentina. The gas fired plant will have an initial output of 57.4 MW, which can later be increased to 90 MW. The electricity produced will primarily be used to power the local oil fields, with any excess being sold to the national grid. The order with Wärtsilä comprises a complete engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) project, and was bo...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
