Norway

Electrification

Equinor Drops Offshore Electrification Plans Over Rising Costs

Equinor announced on Friday that it has decided to cancel plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by linking several offshore oil and gas platforms to Norway&r…

Ammonia

Hy2gen Gets Zoning Approval for Renewable Ammonia Plant in Norway

Hy2gen Nordic, a subsidiary of German renewable hydrogen producer Hy2gen, has received zoning approval from the Sauda municipal council for the Iverson renewabl…

Floating Offshore Wind

Norway’s First Floating Wind Tender Attracts Two Bids

Norway’s first tender for building commercial floating offshore wind farms has drawn bids from two consortia, the Ministry of Energy said on Monday.Equino…

Norway

Nokia, KONGSBERG Partner to Advance 5G Tactical Communications for Defense

Nokia and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KONGSBERG), Norway’s leading defense technology company, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to advan…

Liquid Hydrogen

DNV Greenlights Samsung Heavy Industries’ 80,000 Cbm Liquefied Hydrogen Carrier Design

Norway-based classification society DNV has granted approval in principle (AiP) to South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) for its newly developed 80…

Carbon Capture

Yinson Production Charting Carbon Capture Course With Norwegian Firm

Malaysia’s Yinson Production, a subsidiary of Yinson, has strengthened its carbon capture ambitions by entering a partnership with Carbon Circle, a Norway…

Hydropower Plant

Statkraft Sells 49% Stake in Indian Hydropower JV

Statkraft, a Norway-based renewable energy producer, has finalized the sale of its 49% minority stake in the hydropower joint venture Malana Power Company to In…

United Kingdom

Ciena, Altibox Carrier Achieve World’s First 1.6 Tb/s Single-Carrier Subsea Transmission

Ciena, in partnership with Altibox Carrier, has announced the world’s first 1.6 Tbps single-carrier wavelength transmission on an in-service submarine cab…

Hydropower Plant

Aker Solutions to Supply Equipment for Blåfalli Fjellhaugen Project in Norway

Aker Solutions has secured a contract to supply turbine and main mechanical systems for the Blåfalli Fjellhaugen hydropower project in Kvinnherad, Norway.…

CCS

Norway’s Northern Lights CCS Project Starts Operations With First CO2 Injected

Norway has begun operations at the Northern Lights carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, with the first volumes of carbon dioxide (CO2) successfully injecte…

SMR

Plans for SMR Plant on Svalbard Progress

On Friday, a planning initiative for a small modular reactor (SMR) power plant in Longyearbyen, the administrative hub of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, w…

Oil Field

Norway’s Northernmost Oil Field Formally Inaugurated

Equinor officially inaugurated the Johan Castberg oil field on August 8. This marks Norway’s northernmost oil development and the third producing field in…

Norway

World’s First Zero-Emissions Quicklime Plant Underway in Norway

Thyssenkrupp Polysius will supply the kiln system for SMA Mineral’s upcoming pilot plant in Mo i Rana, Norway, which is designed to produce quicklime with…

Hydrogen Project

Statkraft Seals Land Deal for Its Hydrogen Project in Shetland

Norwegian renewable energy company Statkraft has secured a lease from the Shetland Islands Council to develop its Shetland Hydrogen Project 2, marking progress …

Norway

OpenAI, Nscale and Aker to Build Massive ‘Stargate’ Datacentre in Norway

OpenAI, in partnership with Norwegian industrial group Aker and London-based AI infrastructure provider Nscale, has announced plans to construct Stargate Norway…