DNV to Conduct Safety Study at Offshore Hydrogen Production Site in France
design of the new facility, DNV’s experts will undertake workshops and technical sessions to identify and analyze the main environmental, safety, and operational risks associated with the project.Hydrogen: Future of Energy StorageSantiago Blanco, Executive Vice-President and Regional Director Southern Europe, MEA and LATAM, Energy Systems at DNV says: “This is potentially a watershed project, one we are excited to be supporting during the FEED stage. Proving the safety of such activities, particularly with new technologies, to gain acceptance and move them closer to adoption, is vital for
MENCK, Van Oord Partner on Installation of Italy’s First Offshore Wind Farm
installation of 10 monopiles, each supporting a 3-MW turbine, will begin in Q3 2021 using the MPI Resolution and is expected to take 16 days. MENCK will supply one MHU 800S hydraulic hammer spread, including service technicians.The Taranto project is a milestone for offshore wind power in Italy and southern Europe in general. The 30-MW development will be Italy’s first offshore wind farm and the first to be built in the Mediterranean Sea. The project is being run by Italian company Renexia, which is developing other offshore wind projects around the world.MENCK has previously worked with Van Oord
Nicola Offshore, Cyprus Subsea Partner Up
for marine monitoring, as well as its experience in automating aspects of marine environmental surveying.Seaglider with Limassol in the background - Credit Cyprus Subsea“The partnership helps to extend the reach of both companies, opening more opportunities to support clients in Northern and Southern Europe,” said Daniel Esser, Managing Director, Nicola Offshore. “While the commercial potential is exciting, we’re also keen to extend our service platform with glider capabilities and expertise, and be part of developing new methodologies and processes together with C.S.C.S. that
NKT Names Kara CEO
has appointed Alexander Kara as President and CEO. He will join NKT August 1, 2019.Kara joins NKT from ABB where was most recently Senior Vice President, HUB Business Unit Manager CSE, High Voltage Products with responsibility for all ABB high-voltage product plants and markets in Central and Southern Europe. Prior to that, he has held several key positions at ABB from 1987. From 2012 to 2014, he was head of ABB’s global power cables business in Karlskrona, Sweden, now owned by NKT.When Kara joins NKT, he and CFO Roland M. Andersen will constitute the NKT A/S executive management team. Until
Gazprom: Work on Underwater Section of Turkstream to Begin in H2 2017
...we will make a decision how we will work. It's about gas supplies via Turkey towards the Turkish-Greek border and construction of new pipelines on EU territory toward the South of Italy". Gazprom had for years pushed its South Stream gas link project, to allow it to ship gas direct to southern Europe while circumventing Ukraine. But it had to scrap the South Stream project because of opposition from Brussels. (Reporting by Denis Pinchuk; Writing by Christian Lowe
TE Subcom Supplies MAREA Submarine Cable System
; As announced by Facebook and Microsoft in May 2016, MAREA will be the highest-capacity subsea cable to ever cross the Atlantic – featuring eight fiber-pairs and an initial estimated design capacity of 160 Terabits/sec. The new 6,600 km submarine cable system will connect the United States to southern Europe: from Virginia Beach, Virginia to Bilbao, Spain. This new southern route will provide greater diversity of connections and enhanced reliability for customers, as well as optimal connectivity to data centers on the East Coast of the United States. Led by Facebook and Microsoft, TE SubCom
Saipem: No Changes to South Stream Work Suspension
were expected until Feb. 19, according to a statement. Saipem said on Dec. 4 that the project's "marine spread activities", which include pipe-laying operations, were suspended. This was just days after Russia abandoned the South Stream project, which was to supply gas to southern Europe without crossing Ukraine, citing European Union objections. It instead proposed an undersea pipeline to Turkey. (Reporting by Agnieszka Flak
Climate Change Could Cost Europe $260 Billion
welfare loss of 1.8% of its current GDP. Several weather-related extremes could roughly double their average frequency. As a consequence, heat-related deaths could reach about 200 000, the cost of river flood damages could exceed $13.6 billion (€10 billion) and 8,000 km2 of forest could burn in southern Europe. The number of people affected by droughts could increase by a factor of seven and coastal damage, due to sea-level rise, could more than triple. These economic assessments are based on scenarios where the climate expected by the end of the century (2080s) occurs in the current population and
Shell Commited To Russia Expansion Despite Sanctions
top crude oil producer and a leader in natural gas, Russia has signed deals with international majors including ExxonMobil, Eni, Statoil and BP, mainly relating to projects in the Arctic. Novak also said the 2,400-kilometre (1,490-mile) South Stream pipeline from Russia via the Black Sea to southern Europe, avoiding Ukraine, would proceed despite signs that the European Union may withdraw its support. (By Alexei Anishchuk, Reporting by Alexei Anishchuk and Anastasia Lyrchikova; Writing by Vladimir Soldatkin and Conor Humphries; editing by Jason Neely, Reuters)
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