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DOF Group ASA said it has been awarded two new contracts in Brazil for Skandi Logger, an anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel with a 250-ton bollard pull, by Petrobras. The vessel has been contracted by Petrobras for four years, expected to begin in February 2026. The contract was won in a tender process, DOF said in a news release. In another tender process, Skandi Achiever was also contracted as a remotely operated vehicle support vessel (RSV) for a four-year engagement with Petrobras. The contract is anticipated to start in December in direct continuation of its current contract with another…

QatarEnergy Trading LLC (QET), the LNG trading arm of state-owned QatarEnergy, has contracted Australia’s Santos Ltd. for the supply of 500,000 metric tons a year of the super-chilled gas for two years. Delivery will start 2026 on an ex-ship basis. The cargos will be sourced from Santos’ portfolio, it said in a press release. “Santos’ portfolio of high-quality, tier-one customers now comprises, Hokkaido Gas Co., Ltd, Shizuoka Gas Co. Ltd, TotalEnergies Gas & Power Asia Limited, Glencore Singapore Pte Ltd, Mitsubishi Corporation, PETRONAS, KOGAS, Osaka Gas, JERA, Sinopec (Unipec Asia Co Ltd), CPC Corporation, and now QET”, Santos said. “The portfolio…

Australia’s government is supporting with grant funding the development of a green hydrogen project in the country, which has recently seen setbacks in the sector with major projects canceled or halted.Australia, via the Hydrogen Headstart Program of Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), will back Orica’s Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub with grant funding of $283 million (AUS$432 million), the government said on Friday.The Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub (HVHH) project will produce renewable hydrogen using a 50-megawatt electrolyzer powered by renewable electricity. This hydrogen will replace natural gas in Orica’s ammonia production process, helping to reduce carbon emissions.The project would help decarbonize…

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Karen Abarca, a 33-year-old communications engineer in Los Angeles County. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I am very fortunate to have not just one, but two highly sought-after careers.My mom is a seamstress, so she taught me how to fix my clothes. Once she taught me how to make dresses in high school, it was game over. That’s all I wanted to do.But as a kid, I loved science. I grew up thinking that I would be a scientist or maybe a doctor. I never really saw that path for…

Saudi oil giant Aramco is looking to sell up to five gas-fired power plants, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, as part of a broader effort to free up funds that could generate tens of billions of dollars.The potential sale of four or five gas-fired plants that power refineries could alone raise around $4 billion as the Saudi government pushes Aramco to increase profits and payouts to the state, two of the sources said.Aramco, the world’s most profitable company and the main source of Saudi state income, has been looking to sell some assets, improve efficiency and…

Direct air capture (DAC) technology company Phlair and project developer Carbon Removal, via its subsidiary NorDAC Kollsnes AS, announced a new agreement to build Europe’s first large-scale DAC carbon removal and geological storage project in Øygarden, Norway. The plant will be located next to the Northern Lights carbon transportation and storage project in Norway, with the project initially targeting 60,000 tonnes of CO2 removal per year, scaling to an expected 500,000 tonnes in the project’s second phase. DAC technology, listed by the IEA as a key carbon removal option in the transition to a net-zero energy system, extracts CO2 directly…

Waymo is a robotaxi service owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet. Since opening its service to the public in 2020, Waymo has said it has provided millions of paid, fully autonomous rides.The company continues to expand its service, in part by partnering with other ride-hailing platforms, and has begun testing its robotaxis outside the US.Waymo’s beginningsWaymo was initially formed by Google and was known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project. After seven years of research and development, it eventually spun out into its own company in 2016. Alphabet remains the majority owner of the company.Google started developing Waymo and its…

New Delhi: Global energy giant Shell has acquired Mumbai-based Raj Petro Specialities to deepen its foothold in the world’s third biggest lubricants market in the world, a top company official said.Shell, which has already invested over $5 billion in India across the energy value chain — from LNG import terminals and fuel stations to renewable energy and technology centres — has acquired 100 per cent equity interest in Raj Petro Specialities Pvt Ltd from Germany’s Brenntag Group. “I think the acquisition of Raj Petro marks a very important and a significant milestone for the lubricants business in the country. India…

Power consumption spikes from AI data centers are making grids more volatile, a senior executive from Hitachi Energy has warned.“AI data centres are very, very different from these office data centres because they really spike up,” Andreas Schierenbeck told the Financial Times in an interview. “If you start your AI algorithm to learn and give them data to digest, they’re peaking in seconds and going up to 10 times what they have normally used.”Schierenbeck went on to say that “No user from an industry point of view would be allowed to have this kind of behaviour — if you want…