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Hydrogen Production

Equinor's H2M Eemshaven Project to Reform Natural Gas to Hydrogen With CCS

Norwegian energy major Equinor and global industrial gases and engineering company Linde have signed a project development agreement to work as partners on the …

Oil&Gas Drilling

Aker Puts Subsea Oil & Gas Tech to Work for Offshore Wind

Norwegian offshore technology company Aker Solutions is working with Norway's Marine Energy Test Centre to try out a new way to set up the power collection …

Offshore Wind Power

Norway Greenlights EUR 2 Billion Offshore Wind Contract for Difference Scheme

Norway has received clearance for up to NOK 23 billion (EUR 2.04 billion) in state aid in the form of a bilateral Contract for Difference (CfD) for the Southern…

Pumped Storage

Statkraft to Acquire 450MW Loch Ness Pumped Storage Hydro Project

Pumped storage turbines to be used in the project. Image: Statkraft.Norwegian power company Statkraft has agreed to acquire a 450MW pumped storage hydro project…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Equinor to Obtain Shell Stake, Operatorship of Linnorm in NCS

Equinor ASA is boosting its stake in the Linnorm discovery in the Norwegian Sea by acquiring Shell plc's 30 percent equity in PL 255.Equinor ASA is boosting…

Oil&Gas Drilling

Norway Oil and Gas Investments Set to Soar in 2024, Industry Says

Equinor's flag in Stavanger, Norway December 5, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOil and gas companies operating in Norway are …

Thermal Coal

Germany's RWE to Win EU Approval for $2.8 Bln Coal Phase Out Aid- Bloomberg News

RWE AG (RWEG.DE) will receive 2.6 billion euros ($2.79 billion) in compensation from the German government for its accelerated phase-out of coal from its energy…

Japan

Japan's Kansai Comes Onboard Norwegian Floating Offshore Wind Project

Japanese utility, the Kansai Electric Power Company (Kansai), has joined the Source Galileo, Odfjell Oceanwind, and Vår Energi partnership which is develo…

Oil Field

Environmentalists Ask Norway Court to Stop Three Oil and Gas Fields

Greenpeace activists demonstrate in front of the Norwegian oil and energy ministry in central Oslo, Norway June 24, 2021, a day after the country granted explor…

Offshore Wind Power

Statkraft Acquires Spanish Based Renewables Business Enerfin From Elecnor Group

The acquisition of Enerfin adds 1.5 GW of operational wind power, wind and solar capacity currently under construction plus a sizeable pipeline of projects in d…

Offshore Wind Power

Ørsted Pulls Out of Norwegian Offshore Wind Partnership

Denmark’s Ørsted has decided to pull out of a Norwegian offshore wind partnership with Fred. Olsen Seawind and Hafslund.Ørsted have informed…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Norwegian Developer Switches on Northernmost Ground-Mounted PV Plant

Norway's Store Norske Energi has a PV system in the Svalbard archipelago, at the 78th parallel north. The islands are the last inhabited locations before th…

Biofuel

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ship Trials HSFO Biofuel in South Korea

Vehicles carrier M/V Torrens has become the first vessel operated by Norwegian shipping and logistics company Wallenius Wilhelmsen to bunker B30 high sulphur fu…

Geothermal Power Project

Geothermal Arena Opens in Unterhaching, Germany

The newly renamed Geothermie Arena in Unterhaching, Germany (source: Apetek89, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)The sports arena on Utzweg in Unterhaching, G…

Solar Technology

Norwegian Startup Uses Solid Hydrogen for Solar Energy Storage Breakthrough

Photoncycle claims it can store solar power from summer to winter cheaper than batteries.Photoncycle, a startup from Norway, is tackling interseason storage of …