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...Deep sea mining is closest to reality. The Norwegian government pushed ahead with plans for mining in its waters in December....
...Overall, Petrobras plans to spend $7.5bn on exploration over the next five years drilling 50 wells, mostly in Brazilian waters....
...The answer may be a new offshore frontier located in a 2,200km tract of deep waters along Brazil’s north coast, called the Equatorial Margin....
...The geothermal electricity will be produced by using hot water from deep underground to create steam that drives a turbine, creating clean power....
...As one of the fictional oil conglomerate’s offshore maintenance operatives, he (and therefore you) must help tend to the drilling platforms and pipelines that litter the ocean floor....
...The Bay du Nord project includes several oil discoveries in the Flemish Pass Basin 500km north-east of St John’s, sitting in deep water of around 1,200 feet....
...The sum is more than has been raised by any offshore oil and gas auction in US waters . . . ever....
...Floating offshore wind represents an opportunity for oil companies to bring expertise in deep water exploration and drilling to renewable energy....
...Peak oil demand delayed BP grabbed headlines in the depths of the pandemic when it said that 2019 might have set the high-water mark for oil demand....
...Better known in the US for its petrol stations, offshore drilling and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP last year pledged to begin reducing crude production, cutting emissions — including rampant flaring...
...Offshore drilling company Transocean’s seven-year bond raised last year has risen to 87 cents on the dollar from as low as 31 cents in October....
...wind turbines owing to the nature of the seabed or because waters are too deep....
...The company had planned to mine the deep sea in waters surrounding Papua New Guinea....
...Additional reporting by Richard Waters This article is part of an FT series about the global boom in renewable energy...
...Even though Oceana, an advocacy group, argues in a new report that an end to offshore drilling would prevent more than 19bn tonnes of future greenhouse gas emissions (that’s equivalent to three years of...
...Two things to start: Permian Basin methane emissions are soaring again as drilling in Texas and New Mexico picks up. And the US government unveiled its offshore wind power plan....
...has urged the administration to reform and phaseout onshore federal drilling leasing, and scrap offshore leasing altogether....
...Sometimes, “regulation can get it wrong”, he tells the FT’s Richard Waters....
...Now, in a recent auction for UK offshore wind leases, Total too paid a hefty sum for its own lease, but it was nowhere near BP’s bids which some industry insiders have deemed staggering....
...Power Points Must-read deep dive into the crisis facing mass transit systems in New York and beyond as coronavirus destroys revenues....
...And with offshore wind farms sprouting up in other parts of Asia as well, especially in waters off Taiwan and Vietnam, installed capacity in Asia will nearly match that of Europe by 2025....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 25 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc....
...Chevron has stepped into choppy geopolitical waters....
...Equinor has abandoned a A$200m ($132m) plan to drill for oil and gas in the deep waters of an Australian marine park deeming it not commercially feasible, the third energy group to pull out of the controversial...
...While Makani at first felt it could provide a competitive advantage by using its technology on land and in shallow water — as well as deep water — advancements in competing technologies meant that was likely...
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