Gasunie Joins Offshore Green Hydrogen Project
Energy infrastructure firm Gasunie has joined as a partner at the PosHYdon project - the first offshore green hydrogen pilot being worked on in the Dutch section of the North Sea.PosHYdon integrates three energy systems in the Dutch North Sea: offshore wind, offshore gas and offshore hydrogen and will involve the installation of the hydrogen-producing plant on the Neptune-operated Q13a platform.Gasunie…
Nord Stream's Last Pipe Leaves Sweden Port
The last Nord Stream 2 pipe stored within the premises of the port of Karlshamn left the storage area. Russia’s Nord Stream 2 AG is the operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.Nearly 39,000 pipes have transited through the port since October 7, 2017. Out of these, almost 37,000 pipes have been shipped to the pipelay vessels working on the Swedish section of the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline.
German LNG Terminal Signs New Pact
German LNG Terminal GmbH, the joint venture driving forward Germany’s first LNG terminal in Brunsbuettel, has reached another long-term commercial capacity agreement with an unnamed global LNG player.The gas infrastructure company consisting of N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie (Gasunie), Oiltanking GmbH and Vopak LNG Holding B.V said in a press…
RWE Reserves German LNG Import Capacity
Europe’s leading energy companies RWE and German LNG Terminal GmbH, the joint venture driving forward Germany’s first LNG terminal in Brunsbüttel in Northern Germany, have reached an agreement for a considerable part of the terminal’s capacity on a long-term basis.This contract follows a successful “Open Season” in which market interest was tested.
CWind Awarded TP Gate Contract
Offshore wind industry services provider CWind said it has been awarded a contract by DONG Energy, to install new and retrofit existing gates on the transition pieces (TPs) at the Gode Wind and Borkum Riffgrund offshore wind farms, located in the North Sea off the coast of Northern Germany. CWind, which is part of the Global Marine Group and delivers the company’s power capabilities…
Opal Reports Interest in Renewed Capacity Auctions
Pipeline operator Opal Gastransport said on Wednesday it had seen interest in shipping more Russian natural pipeline gas volumes into storage and to the Czech Republic after restarting day-ahead auctions on the German onshore link last week. Germany's Oberlandesgericht Duesseldorf court last month preliminarily rejected a legal challenge capping the amount of gas that Russia's Gazprom can ship on the 470-km Opal…
OPAL Pipeline Operating at Full Capacity -Gazprom
The Opal pipeline is running at full capacity now, Russia's Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said on Wednesday. "Running this (pipeline) at its full capacity is an objective market necessity for our European customers," Gazprom's press service cited Miller as saying in a statement. The Opal pipeline carries Russian gas from the Nord Stream pipeline in northern Germany to German and Czech customers in the south.
Sweden Won't Block Nord Stream Harbor Deals
Sweden's government said on Tuesday it would not stop two municipalities from leasing two harbours to Russia's Gazprom to facilitate the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, despite concerns about security. "The use of the ports would affect Swedish defence interests in a negative way, and we have informed the municipalities about that," Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist told reporters on Tuesday.
German Cabinet Okays Renewable Energy Reforms
The German cabinet approved reforms to Germany's renewable energy law on Wednesday aimed at slowing the growth and better controlling the cost of green energy sources. Generous green subsidies have led to a boom in renewable energy, such as wind and solar power. But the rapid expansion has pushed up electricity costs in Europe's biggest economy and placed a strain on its grid.
E.ON: Grohnde Reactor Outage to be Lengthened
German utility E.ON said on Thursday its nuclear reactor at Grohnde will remain offline after its annual maintenance outage for at least another two weeks to allow for some more inspections of a pump. The 1,430 megawatts (MW) plant in northern Germany went offline on April 2 and should have been reopened around April 20 initially, but transparency platforms in recent days kept adding downtime projections.
ABB Wins $140 Mln Order for HVDC Station
ABB has received an order worth around $140 million from transmission system operators Energinet.dk in Denmark and 50Hertz Transmission in Germany to design, supply and install a high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter station in Bentwisch, Northern Germany. The HVDC Light "back-to-back" converter station, the first of its kind in Europe…
German Study Says Domestic Shale Gas, Oil Production Possible
Tapping Germany's shale gas and oil without damaging drinking water is possible, said the author of a federal study on Tuesday, although the size of reserves is slightly smaller than previously estimated. German lawmakers are debating whether to use the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technique to extract unconventional mineral resources, with many worrying it could damage Germany's environment.
Badly Needed Rainfall Set to Revive European Diesel Demand
Europe's diesel market could soon get a boost as heavy rainfall is expected to bring badly needed relief to Rhine river water levels that have impeded barge traffic for months. Demand for barges has risen sharply in recent days, according to brokers and traders, and cold weather that is set to hit the region could further spur demand for heating oil.
Siemens Setting up Wind Power Plant in Germany
Siemens is investing around €200 million to a wind turbine manufacturing facility in Cuxhaven, Germany. A few days after announcing this project an official signing ceremony took place at the planned site of the factory. The new production will be located directly at the edge of the harbor and will have a surface area of 170,000 square meters – the size of roughly 24 soccer fields.
ABB hands over Germany’s DolWin1
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has successfully commissioned and handed over the DolWin1 offshore wind grid connection to the Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT. The 800 megawatts (MW) High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) link connects offshore wind farms around 75 kilometers off the German coast in the DolWin cluster, with the country’s transmission grid.
Liebherr Sells Knuckle Boom Cranes to China
Liebherr offshore crane division has recently signed a contract with long-time partner DALIAN SHIPYARD (DSIC Offshore) for two state-of-the-art ram luffing knuckle boom cranes of the type RL-K 4200-100 LIT to be delivered for the new high-level semi-submersible BT 4000. "We have already successfully delivered around 40 machines to DSIC to date…
ABB wins Norwegian, German power grids Contract
ABB has won orders worth around $900 million from a consortium comprising leading utilities Statnett and TenneT as well as promotional bank KfW to supply on-shore high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter stations and the cable system in the German sector that will facilitate the first ever interconnection between the Norwegian and German power grids.
Klesch Eyes European Refinery
American businessman set to buy new European refinery; Klesch to complete Wales refinery deal in October. Billionaire investor Gary Klesch, about to complete the purchase of a second European refinery, is already looking to his next deal in a sector that others are scrambling to exit. After buying a struggling refinery in Wales in July…
Port of Hamburg Reports Q1 Results
In the first quarter of 2014 total throughput in the Port of Hamburg reached 35.6 million tons, representing 8.6 percent growth. Both general cargo throughput totalling 25.2 million tons (+ 10.8 percent), and bulk cargo throughput at 10.4 million tons (+ 3.5 percent), ensured especially strong growth for Germany’s largest universal port.
At Hamburg port E-mobility Project, BESIC enters crucial phase
Ten battery-operated heavy goods vehicles now transport containers between ships and the yard at the highly automated handling facility in the HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA). The aim is to charge the batteries of these container transporters when the grid has a surplus of renewable energy generated in northern Germany. The first…
