Alternative Technology Archives

Transition investors pile into buyers’ market for wind and solar

March 21, 2025

(Oil Price) – Investors in energy transition businesses are enjoying a shift in market sentiment that has led to valuation slumps turning a lot of wind, solar, battery storage, and other companies from the area into great bargains. Bloomberg reports that the recent crash in wind, solar, battery, and other transition-related stocks has whetted buyers’ appetite on the grounds that the fundamentals of

Baker Hughes, NextDecade enter framework agreement for Rio Grande LNG expansion

March 17, 2025

(World Oil) – Baker Hughes and NextDecade Corporation have entered into a framework agreement whereby NextDecade plans to utilize Baker Hughes’ gas turbine and refrigerant compressor technology (Equipment Packages) and enter into contractual services agreements to perform maintenance work for these Equipment Packages for Trains 4 through 8 at the Rio Grande LNG Facility. “Utilizing Baker Hughes’ industry-leading rotating equipment

CERAWeek 2025: How ExxonMobil is applying technology to maximize value in the Permian basin

March 14, 2025

(World Oil) – With the general sense of excitement about U.S. production carrying over from panels earlier in the week, ExxonMobil’s panel on operations in the Permian basin convened with great enthusiasm during day three of CERAWeek 2025 by S&P Global. ExxonMobil’s recent headlines have often been tied to their increasing successes and rapidly expanding prospects in offshore Guyana, ever

TotalEnergies and RWE agree one of the world’s biggest green hydrogen deals

March 12, 2025

(Oil Price) – Germany’s biggest utility RWE will supply green hydrogen to France’s oil and gas supermajor TotalEnergies in a 15-year deal from 2030, in one of the largest such agreements globally. RWE to supply around 30,000 metric tons of green hydrogen annually to TotalEnergies from 2030 to 2044, the German utility giant said on Wednesday. The green hydrogen from RWE will be

B3 Insight and Nanometrics partner to integrate advanced seismic data into OilfieldH2O

March 10, 2025

(Oil & Gas 360) – Collaboration provides powerful, centralized solution to understand and manage injection-induced seismicity Denver, Colorado – March 5, 2025 – B3 Insight, a leader in water and subsurface data intelligence, and Nanometrics, a leader in complete, integrated solutions for passive seismic monitoring, today announced a partnership that enables seamless integration of Nanometrics Seismicity Monitoring Service data with B3

ChampionX’s AOGI platform granted EPA approval for methane emissions detection

March 5, 2025

(World Oil) – ChampionX announced today its ChampionX Emissions Technologies’ Aerial Optical Gas Imaging (AOGI) platform has received approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the Methane Alternative Test Method outlined in OOOOb. This approval marks a significant milestone in emissions management, empowering operators to integrate AOGI into their emissions monitoring programs to detect and locate fugitive methane

Baker Hughes, Frontier partner to develop CCS, data center projects in U.S.

March 3, 2025

(World Oil) – Baker Hughes and Frontier Infrastructure have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) and power solutions in the U.S. As part of the agreement, Baker Hughes will provide innovative technologies and resources in support of the development of large-scale CCS, power generation, and data center projects. Frontier is leading the

Diamondback pursues JV for gas-fueled plants to power Permian data centers

February 26, 2025

(World Oil) – (Bloomberg) – Diamondback Energy Inc. is in talks to form a power joint venture that would solve some of the shale giant’s own needs in the Permian Basin while also selling electricity to artificial intelligence data centers in West Texas. Diamondback says it’s looking for an equity stake in a gas-fired power plant that would be built on

BP set to scrap renewable energy goal as it boosts oil and gas

February 24, 2025

(Oil Price) – BP is expected to announce this week that it is shifting its focus back to oil and gas, ditching a target to boost renewable energy capacity generation 20-fold by 2030, sources familiar with the new strategy told Reuters on Monday. BP earlier this month pledged to fundamentally reset its strategy as it booked its lowest annual and quarterly profits in years and

Halliburton launches its second electric TRSV following success of industry’s first

February 18, 2025

(World Oil) – Halliburton today announced the launch of the new EcoStar® electric tubing-retrievable safety valve (eTRSV). This second-generation product builds on the success of the industry’s first electric TRSV, which won the OTC Spotlight on New Technology Award in 2017. With the new EcoStar eTRSV, Halliburton solved a three-decade industry challenge by eliminating hydraulic actuations from safety valve systems.

Aramco’s venture arm invests in Telefonica-backed AI startup

February 17, 2025

(World Oil) – (Bloomberg) – Saudi Aramco’s venture arm has invested in an AI cloud startup backed by Spanish telecom giant Telefonica SA as it seeks to drive the kingdom’s push to become an artificial intelligence hub. The deal with UK-based Ori will see the company establish a regional subsidiary in Riyadh to develop talents and advance technologies in the local

Trump is looking for ways to cancel $400 billion in clean energy loans

February 5, 2025

(Oil Price) – The Trump administration is looking into ways to cancel federal loans granted by the Department of Energy for transition projects from a $400-billion fund, Bloomberg has reported, citing an unnamed source. According to the report, the new leadership at the Department of Energy would focus its financial firepower on projects in nuclear energy, liquefied gas and other segments supported

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