Billionaire Viktor Vekselberg is out to prove that solar has a place in Russia, the world’s largest exporter of oil and gas.
Hevel Solar, a venture between Vekselberg’s Renova and OAO Rusnano, plans 22.5 billion rubles ($450 million) of solar farms through 2018 and says diversifying power generation will benefit the country.
“You don’t have to eat potatoes all the time,” Hevel Chief Executive Officer Igor Akhmerov said in an interview in Moscow. “You can have some salad as well.”
At first glance, solar in Russia makes little sense. The country has surplus energy, and the sun barely crests the horizon in midwinter in Moscow. Yet it does shine along the nation’s southern border with Kazakhstan, where Hevel completed its second solar farm in the Orenburg region last week.
Ashtead Technology has secured a deal with Neptune Oceanographics which will add underwater leak detection products to its rental fleet.
The company will now offer Neptune's leak detection systems and senors.
Tim Sheehan, commercial director of Ashtead Technology, said: “With billions invested in installing subsea infrastructure around the world, inspection, repair and maintenance of pipelines becomes increasingly important.
N-Sea offshore has moved into new premises as its business continues to expand.
The move into the Norwich-based premises are aimed at supporting the company's increased activity in the oil and gas and renewable market in the region.
Countries must set a global goal to slash carbon emissions to unlock more than £30 trillion needed in energy investments to tackle climate change, a report has urged.
The World Energy Council study, which draws on insights of more than 2,500 industry leaders and policy makers, also calls for a global carbon price polluters must pay for their emissions, to level the playing field between traditional and clean energy schemes.
Released ahead of key United Nations climate talks in Paris in December, the report warns uncertainty over global policies is one of the biggest obstacles to unlocking £31- £34 trillion in investments in the energy sector needed to address the problem.
Gunmen have tried to assassinate Libya’s internationally recognised prime minister on his way to the airport in the eastern city of Tobruk, a spokesman for his government said.
Abdullah al-Thinni’s motorcade was attacked and one of his guards was lightly wounded but there were no fatalities, according to Arish Said, head of the government’s media department.
“They managed to escape,” he added.
Hundreds of workers have been evacuated from three oil sands projects in Alberta as wildfires affect the region.
Statoil, MEG Energy and Cenovus Energy made the move as fires coarsed through the area.
Projects have also been shutdown by Cenovus and Canadian Natural Resources, though none have been affected by the fires.
A former international director at state-run oil firm Petrobas has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Nestor Cervero is the second person to be convicted in the ongoing corruption scandal.
Federal Judge Sergio Moro said there was evidencd that Cervero has created a company, as a front, to launder money.
The head of Fairfield Energy is to step down later this year.
According to reports, David Peattie has made the move just as the company announced it was set to decommission its Dunlin Alpha platform.
Peattie joined the company four years ago after moving from oil major BP, where he had once headed its operations in Russia.
It's understood a leaving date is yet to be finalised.
The Government has been warned it faces resistance to cuts amid an increase in industrial unrest since the general election.
A threatened bank holiday rail strike was averted after Network Rail improved a pay offer, but many other disputes have broken out, or worsened, since the Conservatives took power.
Steel workers, probation staff, London Underground employees, North Sea oil workers and university lecturers are among those involved in industrial rows over a range of issues including pay, pensions and jobs.
Tourism has not only recovered on the Gulf Coast five years after the BP oil spill - industry officials say it is surging, and they credit fallout from the environmental disaster as being part of the reason why.
BP spent more than $230 million (£148 million) promoting tourism after the 2010 spill, and the company aired national adverts promoting the region for years.
Workers have been safely evacuated after the Foster Creek oil sands and Athabasca natural gas operation after a forest fire on the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range in northeastern Alberta.
The fire has been burning about 25kilometres south of Cenovus's Foster Creek facility.
The company said the decision to send staff home and shut down production was made because of the fire's proximity to the only access road to the facilities.
ExxonMobil has denied reports it has been lobbying the US Government on Iran sanctions.
The company issued a statement in which its vice president of Public and Government Affairs said the reports regarding the matter were "inaccurate".
Safety officials have warned owners of the oil pipeline which ruptured last week that numerous measures must be taken before the line can be restarted.
Work needed includes an in-depth analysis of the factors which may have contributed to the spill.
The corrective action order was issued just a few days after the incident by the US Transportation Department's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration.
A group of US senators has called on the Obama administration to halt oil major Shell's preparations for oil exploration in the Arctic.
The move - by mostly Democratic senators - was made amidst fears the region has a limited capacity to respond to accidents.
A letter was sent by the senators to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and urged her to retire Arctic leases in the Chukchi Sea.
Alberta forest fires have prompted the shutdown of about 9 percent of Canada’s oil sands production.
Cenovus Energy Inc. closed its 130,000-barrel Foster Creek operations and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. shut its 80,000-barrel-a-day Primrose project after a forest fire broke out on the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range in northeastern Alberta, the companies said.
A platform gathering oil in the Gulf of Mexico shut in about 2,200 barrels a day of output after a compressor caught fire.
The Texas Petroleum Investment Co. platform in Breton Sound Block 21, near the southeastern Louisiana coast, evacuated 28 workers without injury after the compressor fire, according to a US Coast Guard statement.
A Coast Guard boat crew was fighting the blaze, and a 1.4-mile rainbow sheen was “drifting southwest of the platform.”
The SNP has been given the chairmanship of the Westminster committee that will scrutinise new devolution legislation.
A nationalist MP will chair the Scottish Affairs Committee in the House of Commons, whose members will examine the Scotland Bill after it is published next week.
Prime Minister David Cameron has already pledged to include a Bill to implement the recommendations of the Smith Commission on devolution in his first Queen’s Speech after winning the election.
Advance wells solutions took centre stage at a showcase event hosted by Welltec.
Senior wells operations personnel from a range of offshore operators and contractors took the opportunity to hear more about the company's portfolio of award-winning technologies.
Wider well design issues were also discussed.
Energy Voice is looking for a digital journalist to join its expanding team.
The successful candidate will have a firm understanding of the oil, gas and wider energy industry, a drive for exclusives, the ability to adhere to strict deadlines and a passion for developing the digital brand.
The role includes producing breaking news, surfacing exclusive content, networking with major industry players and producing creative, accurate copy and video on a daily basis.
The Energy Jobs Taskforce that was set up to support jobs in the troubled North Sea oil and gas industry is hosting a gathering of some of its key players today.
Oil and Gas Athority chief executive Andy Samuel, BP North Sea boss Trevor Garlick, Oil and Gas UK chief executive Deirdre Michie and Scottish Enterprise energy and low-carbon technologies director Maggie McGinlay are among those taking part in the private meeting.
The taskforce was launched earlier this year by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to support people trying to find work.
An oil spill from a pipeline which has closed two California state beaches could take months to restore to its natural condition.
Around 2,500 barrels of crude petroleum hit the San Refugio State Beach about 20 miles west of Santa Barbara when an underground pipeline running along the coastal highway burst.
A fifth of the estimated amount was believed to have reached the ocean, and left oil slicks which were stretched for more than nine miles.
Absoft and Safran Software Solutions are set to lead presentations at an operations and maintenance forum.
The SAP specialist for upstream oil and gas will take part in a bid to offer maintenance and integrated planning solutions for operational excellence in the sector.
Safran Software Solutions, will showcase how their solution integrates with SAP to provide powerful planning and reporting functionality for effective resource scheduling and maintenance optimisation.
A poll taken of Energy Voice readers has found three-quarters agree offshore workers should ballot to strike.
The findings come just a day after North Sea oil and gas workers agreed to press ahead with plans for a ballot on strike action after talks with employers in Aberdeen reached another stalemate.
Union leaders have insisted the door was “not closed” to employers despite no agreement being met.
Workers are in dispute over changes to staff rotas, sick pay and holiday pay.
When asked ‘should workers agree to strike in ballot action?’ , 75.51% supported strike again, while 24.49% were against.
Research by scientists in the Gulf of Mexico has found dolphins who died following the 2010 BP Macondo oil spill had rare lesions linked to petroleum exposure.
The study, researchers said, showed dead dolphins tissue rounded out into a spike in the region affected by the oil spill five years ago.
After millions of barrels of crude oil spilled into the region, dolphin deaths were seen around coastal Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, according to the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
More than 80 crew were evacuated from an offshore support vessel after a blaze broke out in its generator room.
Thirty-five firefighters were called to Peterhead harbour after the alarm was raised on board the 426ft Fugro Symphony.
Two units from Peterhead, two from Ellon and one from Maud went to the scene.
A specialist foam unit from Aberdeen was also called and three firefighters wearing breathing apparatus along with a member of the ship’s own fire team pinpointed the blaze in the ship’s generator room on one of its lower decks.
