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Wind-powered offshore enhanced oil recovery concept moves closer to implementation

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The DNV GL-led joint industry project, WIN WIN (WINd powered Water INjection), has completed its first phase and determined that wind power could be used to power offshore water injection. WIN WIN uses a floating wind turbine as a platform for an autonomous water injection system.

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Former Shell consultant accuses gas giant for doing “extreme harms” to the environment

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Caroline Dennett, a senior safety consultant, has accused oil giant Shell of causing “extreme harms” to the environment. They know that continued oil and gas extraction causes extreme harms, to our climate, to our environment and to people. Shell has been one of Dennett’s biggest clients since. “I

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New UK energy strategy pushes new nuclear; up to 8 additional reactors

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The Energy Security Strategy plans also include: Offshore wind: a new ambition of up to 50GW by 2030—more than enough to power every home in the UK—of which up to 5GW should be from floating offshore wind in deeper seas.

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Technip launches Vertiwind floating wind turbine project

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Technip, in association with Nénuphar, Converteam and EDF Energies nouvelles recently launched the Vertiwind project to test a pre-industrial prototype of a vertical-axis offshore floating wind turbine. Technip also designed, fabricated and installed Hywind, the first industrial size floating wind turbine, for Statoil in Norway.

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Rosneft touts major light oil find from “northernmost well in the world” in the Arctic

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Rosneft announced a major oil discovery at the East-Prinovozemelskiy-1 license area in the Kara Sea, following the successful completion of the drilling of the northernmost well in the world—the Universitetskaya-1 well. I can inform you about the discovery of the first oil/gas-condensate field in the new Kara sea oil province.

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Arctic oil on life support

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Oil companies have eyed the Arctic for years. With an estimated 90 billion barrels of oil lying north of the Arctic Circle, the circumpolar north is arguably the last corner of the globe that is still almost entirely unexplored. Statoil, the semi-state-owned oil company from Norway, has been an offshore leader and Arctic pioneer.

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Berkeley Lab releases 8th edition of databook on China’s energy and environment; finding the “missing” energy consumption

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We have gathered statistical information on energy and energy demand drivers from all different resources, such as the China Environment Yearbook , the Transportation Yearbook , the Power Yearbook , the Iron and Steel Yearbook , the Cement Almanac , statistics of oil companies and power companies.