Drilling & production

Evonik Power Minerals has announced the completion of the purchase of the remaining shares in Hargreaves Coal Combustion Products Ltd.

The US DOE’s annual wind market report shows positive growth for the industry as a whole, with record levels of new capacity coming online.

August 2010: Kay Sever outlines what uncooperative attitudes are really costing you.

Ormat Technologies has bought Constellation’s 50% stake in the Mammoth geothermal complex, and plans to expand capacity.

BP is selling its gas, exploration and processing business in Colombia to a consortium of Ecopetrol and Talisman.

The Bain Report published in 2008 suggests there are 5000 direct full time employees recorded in the UK large-scale wind energy industry and wave and tidal industries combined.

Ecuador has pledged not to drill for oil in an area of pristine Amazon rainforest in exchange for US$ 3.6 billion worth of payments.

BP has announced that the MC252 well appears to have reached a static condition. The well pressure is now being controlled by the hydrostatic pressure of the drilling mud, which is the desired outcome of the static kill procedure carried out.

In the largest single deal by an Indian company in Australia, Linc Energy has agreed to sell its Galilee Basin coal deposits to India’s Adani Enterprises in a deal worth up to AU$ 3 billion.

Foster-Wheeler awarded contract to assist with initial technical development and conceptual design of a new Uruguayan LNG terminal to feed both Uruguay and Argentina.

The EU has agreed a deal on the financing and timetabling of a fusion reactor project in southwestern France.

Western Gas has agreed to pay Anadarko US$ 498 million to acquire its 1734 mile Wattenberg gathering system.

Ultra Green has unveiled new technology that can potentially clean up the majority of the estimated 4 million bbls of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico by the end of September.

Hunnu Coal has announced the results of coal quality analyses performed on samples taken from the due diligence drill cores at the Tsant Uul coking coal project. Initial test results demonstrate similarities to coals at the giant Tavan Tolgoi field.

Ocean Power Technologies has been awarded a grant for further development of its Powerbuoy wave power technology.