Transition Energy

Chevron’s Methane Satellite-Monitoring Campaign and Power of Collaboration

Chevron is a member of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative. A recent Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) report showed that this kind of teamwork can help mitigate methane emissions when paired with the right technology. The OGCI report detailed a 2022–2023 OGCI satellite-monitoring campaign and how data gained from it helped operators identify […]

Oilfield Africa - Thursday June 5, 2025
TotalEnergies Invests its Largest Solar Field in Europe

TotalEnergies initiates its largest solar power plant cluster in Europe, near Seville in Spain. It consists of five solar projects with a total installed capacity of 263 MW. This solar field will produce 515 GWh per year of renewable electricity, equivalent to the consumption of over 150,000 Spanish households, and will avoid 245,000 tons of […]

Oilfield Africa - Sunday May 25, 2025
TotalEnergies Deploys TADI in Detecting Methane Emissions

As part of TotalEnergies ambition to reach near-zero methane emissions by 2030, The company has announced in November 2024 that it had gone a step further in monitoring and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions with the deployment of continuous, real-time detection technologies at all its operated Upstream sites. But these solutions cannot be put into action until […]

Oilfield Africa - Monday May 19, 2025
Half of China’s heavy truck sales could be EVs by 2028 – CATL

Half of China’s sales of heavy trucks could be electric vehicles by 2028, up from 10% in 2024, the chairman of battery maker CATL said on Sunday, according to a media report. The comments by Zeng Yuqun, made at a heavy-truck battery-swapping launch and reported by the Shanghai government-affiliated news site Jiemian, suggest further headwinds […]

Oilfield Africa - Monday May 19, 2025
UK’s Energy Transition Ambitions Much More Than a Pipe Dream

The go-ahead for a major carbon storage project shows the UK is turning its climate change ambitions into reality, NSTA Chief Executive Stuart Payne told hundreds of energy conference attendees today. Speaking at Innovation Zero in London, Mr Payne said last week’s award of carbon storage permits for HyNet was the latest example of “real […]

Oilfield Africa - Tuesday April 29, 2025
Wärtsilä, Partners Unveil World’s First Floating Ammonia-to-Hydrogen Cracker

Wärtsilä Gas Solutions, part of technology group Wärtsilä, and Höegh Evi, a global leader in marine energy infrastructure, have successfully completed development of the world’s first floating ammonia-to-hydrogen cracker. This breakthrough technology enables floating import terminals to produce hydrogen at industrial-scale volumes from transported ammonia, marking a major step in the energy transition. The project […]

Oilfield Africa - Thursday April 24, 2025
Wärtsilä, Aqualectra Sign Innovative Decarbonization Agreement

Technology group Wärtsilä has signed an innovative decarbonisation services agreement with Aqualectra, the energy utility company of the Caribbean island of Curaçao. The agreement will see Wärtsilä’s payments directly tied to achieving key performance indicators: how effectively it maximises renewable energy use, reducing CO2 emissions intensity, lowering costs, and enhancing energy reliability on Curaçao. The […]

Oilfield Africa - Wednesday April 23, 2025
ExxonMobil, Calpine Sign CCS Agreement for Power Generation Project

Exxon Mobil Corporation has announced an agreement with Calpine Corporation, the nation’s largest producer of electricity from natural gas, to transport and permanently store up to 2 million metric tons per annum (MTA) of CO2 from Calpine’s Baytown Energy Center, a cogeneration facility near Houston. This is part of Calpine’s Baytown Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) […]

Oilfield Africa - Wednesday April 23, 2025
OGS Signs Exclusivity Agreement for FLOW-Park’s Areas of Seabed

Offshore Solutions Group (OSG), a UK-based developer focused on the floating offshore wind (FLOW) sector, has signed a two-year Exclusivity Agreement with Crown Estate Scotland for areas of seabed in the Moray Firth, the proposed location of its ground-breaking FLOW-Park. Developed by OSG and recognised as a global industry first, the Moray FLOW-Park aims to […]

Oilfield Africa - Wednesday April 23, 2025
Equinor Stops Work at Empire Offshore Wind Project

In accordance with a halt work order issued by the US government, Empire Offshore Wind LLC (Empire) will safely halt the offshore construction in waters of the outer continental shelf for the Empire Wind project. On 16 April, Empire received notice from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), ordering Empire to halt all activities […]

Oilfield Africa - Saturday April 19, 2025