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European Wind Power Projects Can Deliver Positive 'Return on CapEx' Through...
The upcoming Wind Developer Congress this week in Berlin should be interesting. I'm hoping that it will help owners, developers, OEMs, and lenders to develop procurement strategies that assure...
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Who Can You Trust for Reliable Data on the Profitability of Renewable Energy...
The World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi this week will provide interesting overview and policy perspectives on the need for solar, wind, geothermal, and other renewables. We all need to better...
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Offshore Project Time and Cost Compression: Observations from Topsides...
Last week's Topsides conference in Galveston fostered discussion on a wide range of valuable "project supply chain" optimization ideas and case studies. Some observations from my supply chain...
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Can Seismic Survey Vessels be Used to Locate the Malaysia Airlines MH370 Jet?
Has anyone thought of deploying seismic survey vessels of the type that are used to do 3D and 4D surveys for subsea oil reservoirs, to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines jet (assuming it is under the...
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What Size and Number of Offshore Wind Turbines Should RWE Use to be the Most...
What size and number of wind turbine generators (WTGs) should RWE choose to produce the targeted power output from its Triton Knoll and other windfarms? Using small turbines (3.6's) can minimize...
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Standardization: How RWE Innogy is Minimizing the Supply Chain Cost of a...
Innogy's Nordsea windfarm program is a model for supply chain leverage. The program is being constructed in three independent projects (Nordsea 1, Nordsea 2, and Nordsea 3). Each of the three was...
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Can Extra Long Monopiles Really Replace Jacket Foundations for Offshore Wind...
Siemens Project Ventures GmbH has apparently not decided which type of wind turbine foundation to use for its 600 MW Hornsea One project (Heron Wind) in the North Sea, despite having chosen Siemens'...
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Savvy Supply Chain Planning the Key to North Sea Offshore Windfarm Profitability
The last 12 months have seen the unraveling of many Round 3 offshore UK windfarm plans. Both Vattenfall and RWE, although they are still committed to some major successful projects, have decided to...
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Mainstream Renewable Power Locks in High Cost Structure at Neart Na Gaoithe...
In contrast to other windfarm owners and developers that have established supply chains that achieve economies of scale through standardization, and replication of proven, reliable, and cost-efficient...
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DONG-Siemens Collaboration a Model for Long-Term, Sustainable Supply Chain...
The DONG-Siemens offshore wind collaboration, a long-term relationship that began in 1991 and has involved over 930 turbines used across more than 13 windfarm projects, is a model of sustainable and...
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Making the Case for Floating Renewable Energy Nodes (FRENs)
Most people assume that the economics of one energy technology will prevail over the others for extended stretches of time. Sure, large oil companies such as Chevron and Saudi Aramco fund small...
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Supply Chain Planning Critical to Latin American Oil & Gas Capital Project...
Budgeting and controlling investment costs for Latin American oil and gas projects can be particularly tricky. If investors and owners don’t use reliable information in negotiating with EPCs and...
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Pemex Is Buying Jackups and Partnering with Keppel to Build More. Should It...
Pemex is investing in offshore oil exploration and production to reverse a 25% drop in oil production levels over the past 10 years, and to secure its claim to domestic offshore oil leases before...
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Bahrain’s LNG Terminal Project: How an Independent Master Supply Chain Plan...
Bahrain’s National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA)’s LNG import terminal project seems to be on path for a 7-year cycle: NOGA initiated partnering steps in 2010, and is forecasting completion for 2017....
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How West African National Oil Companies Can Raise Their Equity Stake in...
Ghana National Petroleum has 15% ownership of the Deepwater Tano Contract Area. The other 85% of the ownership went to Tullow (47%), Kosmos Energy (17%), Anadarko Petroleum (17%), Sabre Oil & Gas...
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Corruption is Delaying Socioeconomic Benefits of Liberian E&P Investments,...
At first glance Liberia doesn’t seem as corrupt as its West African neighbors – it received 41 out of 100 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (higher is better; 90 was the best...
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Is it possible to perpetually extend the fossil fuel frontier?
In their book “Ecological Economics” Daly and Farley wrote: “We almost certainly will never exhaust fossil fuel stocks in physical terms, because there will always remain some stocks that are too...
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The war against ISIS: Changing the oil landscape in the Middle East
The spotlight on recent events in the Middle East, while understandably focused on ISIS and the coalition battling it, has overshadowed the potential emergence of a Kurdish state, which would...
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Boston Strategies Targeting Significant Emission Reduction
BSI has committed to reduce its carbon footprint per revenue dollar for fiscal year 2015 by 63%. This follows a 21% reduction in absolute carbon emission during 2014. As a consulting firm we do not...
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Alternative fuel vehicles:Have we passed the tipping point?
Terrafugia’s production of the first U.S. Federal approved flying car, the Transition, suggests that we have taken a huge step closer to accomplishing a Sci-Fi like story. However, the recent global...
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Fracking Fever in Colombia
In Colombia, shale potential is mainly present in three of its 23 basins: the Middle Magdalena Valley (MMVB), Llanos, and Catatumbo basins, amounting to a total shale gas reserve of 55 tcf. Potential...
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Fracking in Mexico: Challenges and Key Success Factors
Pemex plans to increase shale activity in the next few years, budgeting over $575m in 2014, highlighting some 200 shale gas opportunities in five geologic provinces in eastern Mexico, and opening up...
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Fracking: Where Will Latin America Be Without It?
Latin America, which holds approximately one-fourth of the world’s recoverable shale oil and gas reserves, is poised to reap the benefits of the North American shale revolution between now and 2025....
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