Brent crude dropped towards $106 a barrel on Wednesday, dragged down by a forecast of a rise in Iranian oil exports, while investors looked ahead to weekly oil stockpiles data from the United States to evaluate supply.
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German utility company E.ON has started the construction of the Amrumbank West wind farm, a 288MW wind project in the North Sea, which will consist of 80 turbines, and should be enough to power around 300,000 households, cutting more than 740,000 metric tons of carbon emissions every year. The first foundation has been installed at the site, 37 kilometres off the island of Heligoland.
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Siemens, as operator, has been awarded two contracts valued at £516m from Statoil for the Dudgeon offshore wind farm project.
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According to the BP Energy Outlook 2035, global energy consumption is likely to rise 41 per cent in the period from 2012 to 2035, a considerable decrease if compared to 55 per cent over the last 23 years and 30% over the last ten. 95% of that growth in demand is expected to come from the emerging economies as China and India, while energy consumption in the developed economies of North America, Europe and Asia is projected to register a very slow growth.
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Italian energy firm Eni intends to abandon its shale gas projects in Poland due to unclear regulation and difficult geology, the same concerns that have already pushed other foreign firms as Marathon Oil, Talisman Energy and Exxon Mobil, to quit Polish shale. If Eni will leave as well, Chevron and ConocoPhillips would be the last two companies committed to a shale gas industry in Poland.
read more... 15/01/2014