BHP to invest US$400m to address climate change

by Timothy Reeder | Aug 2, 2019 | News

BHP recently announced a five-year, US$400m Climate Investment Program to develop technologies to reduce emissions from its own operations as well as those generated from the use of its resources. BHP CEO Andrew Mackenzie said: “Over the next five years this program...

BP to expand with Bunge in Brazil

by Timothy Reeder | Aug 2, 2019 | News

BP has agreed to form a 50:50 joint venture with Bunge – a leader in agriculture, food and ingredients – that will create a leading bioenergy company in one of the world’s largest fastgrowing markets for biofuels.  BP will combine its Brazilian biofuels and...

High-wave offshore solar panels soon a reality

by Timothy Reeder | Aug 2, 2019 | News

A consortium of Tractebel, Jan De Nul Group, DEME, Soltech and Ghent University is proud to announce the launch of an innovative project in the field of marine floating solar technology. The partners strongly believe that solar photovoltaic (PV) panels in offshore...

E.ON lays submarine cable for German Island Sylt

by Timothy Reeder | Aug 2, 2019 | News

Just in time for the holiday season there is good news for Sylt lovers: The E.ON network operator Schleswig-Holstein Netz (SH Netz) is making the power supply on the island even safer and has now begun laying a submarine cable from the mainland to Sylt. The last...

Siemens to supply equipment and services for 840 MW power plant in Iraq

by Timothy Reeder | Jul 15, 2019 | News

Siemens has received an order to supply the key components and long-term power generation services for the 840-megawatt (MW) Maisan combined cycle power plant in Iraq. CITIC Construction Co., Ltd., the Chinese engineering procurement and construction firm building the...