Equinor has halted offshore construction in the outer continental shelf for the Empire Wind project.
Equinor has halted offshore construction in the outer continental shelf for the Empire Wind project. On 16 April, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) ordered Empire to halt all activities until it has completed its review. Empire is considering appealing the order. The federal lease was signed in 2017. Empire Wind 1 has secured all necessary federal and state permits and has a gross book value of around $2.5 billion.
KBR is partnering with Neptune Energy to produce battery-grade lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) from gas field brine at the Altmark site in Germany, utilising KBR’s proprietary PureLi refining and conversion technology.
Energiequelle has received planning consent for its Oulu Green Hydrogen Park project in Finland. The first phase includes construction of a hydrogen production plant with a maximum capacity of five MW and a hydrogen refuelling station for buses and heavy commercial vehicles.
Öresundskraft Kraft & Värme AB and INEOS have signed an agreement to store up to 210,000 tonnes of CO2 annually from Sweden in Denmark. The captured carbon dioxide is planned for permanent storage in Greensand facility in the Danish part of the North Sea, with the first volumes to be stored from 2028.
Denmark has awarded Norne Thorning Storage an exploration licence for the Thorning structure as a site for carbon capture and storage. Norne will gather the necessary information about the structure to evaluate and confirm its suitability for safe and permanent CO2 storage.
Block Energy has announced Phase 2 of its CCS project in Georgia including pilot injection of CO2 into the Patardzueli Middle Eocene reservoir, to prove mineralisation and permanent storage of CO2. Analysis of Middle Eocene reservoir rock samples suggest the reservoir is suitable for CO2 mineralisation at depths shallower than forecast.
