Ocean Sun, Partners Get Norwegian Gov't Green Funds
Norwegian floating solar tech company Ocean Sun has received, through its participation in consortiums Scatec and Norsk Hydro, the Norwegian government green funds.The funds have been granted through the Green Platform, a new initiative that gives companies and research institutes funding for research and innovation-driven green growth. The purpose of the initiative is to create green jobs and a more sustainable future.The consortium between Ocean Sun - Scatec and has been awarded NOK 79 million to develop the world's first large-scale hybrid hydro and floating solar power plant.At the same time
Vigdis Gets a Boost
into the Snorre field, while gas from Borg Nordvest and Vigdis Øst is piped from Snorre A to Statfjord A. Stabilized oil is transported by pipeline to Gullfaks A for storage and export.The former Saga Petroleum company became operator for licence PL 089 when the licence was awarded in 1984. Norsk Hydro took over operatorship after acquiring Saga in 1999. Then Statoil, now Equinor, took over operatorship on January 1, 2003
HYDRALIGHT Optical Enables Deep Sea Communications
, the HYDRALIGHT series is an eight-channel, fully underwater mateable, oil-filled, pressure-balanced and reliable connector qualified to 7,000 meters. This connector has a design life of 30 years and a minimum of 100mate/de-mates and meets “Optical Wet-Mate Connector Specifications” for Norsk Hydro, Statoil, Elf Exploration, Total, Hess and BP. TE customers will find one of the widest array of connectors, wire & cable and sensor solutions for subsea applications. We support both dry-mate connectors for permanent use in equipment and wet-mate connectors for subsea mate-ability
MTR100: SEACON
fully qualified to 7,000m, with an average single mode insertion loss of less that .2dB and a average single mode back reflection of -50 dB. With a design life of 30 years and a life cycle of a minimum of 100 mate/de-mates, this connector meets the following specifications: • Norsk Hydro NHT-152-00073 Rev 04H • Statoil TR1233 • Elf Exploration AO-32-2-011-LT-00-SN-005 Rev C • Total GSEPSPS021 • BP GP78-21 The MTR100 is Marine Technology Reporter's Annual report on 100 leading companies
Statoil Nominates Agerup on Board
female board member as a replacement for Hughes is now finalised, and the nomination committee proposes that a supplementary election to the board is held in the corporate assembly meeting 20 August 2015. Wenche Agerup was the Executive Vice President for Corporate Staffs and the General Counsel of Norsk Hydro ASA from 2010 to 31 December 2014. She has held various executive roles in Hydro since 1997, including within the company’s M&A-activities, the business area Alumina, Bauxite and Energy, as a plant manager at Hydro’s metal plant in Årdal and as a project director for a Joint
Trelleborg to Enhance Safety at Sverdrup Oil Field
and solutions since 1896. In 1972, the company started providing corrosion protection to the oil industry and in 1986 made its first delivery of thermal insulation to the Oseberg field, Norway. After the Pipe Alpha disaster in 1989, Trelleborg worked with Hydro and Saga Petroleum, now Norsk Hydro, to develop a new type of fire protection in rubber, for use on risers in splash zones. Since then, Trelleborg’s Firestop technology has developed further, growing the portfolio of fire protection solutions for the oil and gas market.
Seacon’s Hydralight Connector
balanced connector is fully qualified to 7,000m, with an average single mode insertion loss of less that .2dB and a average single mode back reflection of -50 dB. With a design life of 30 years and a life cycle of a minimum of 100 mate/de-mates, this connector meets the following specifications: Norsk Hydro NHT-152-00073 Rev 04H, Statoil TR1233, Elf Exploration AO-32-2-011-LT-00-SN-005 Rev C, Total GSEPSPS021, and BP GP78-21. Typical uses include high speed communications, long-distance, production control, pumping systems, sensing systems, Riser and PRM systems. (As published in the June
Norway to Retain Statoil Stake
Norwegian continental shelf. Norway is the world's seventh-biggest oil exporter and the second-biggest supplier of natural gas to Europe after Russia. The government said in a white paper published on Friday it also intended to keep stakes in bank DNB, fertilizers producer Yara and aluminium producer Norsk Hydro at the current levels. The government - with a budget surplus exceeding 10 percent of GDP and a rainy day cash pile worth $880 billion - is under no pressure to raise money. Even in case of shares in Telenor, the government was under no pressure to sell them in the short term, and any changes
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