Energy News and Jobs - Weekly Roundup - 20th January 2023
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OIL AND GAS NEWS
Windfall tax blamed as North Sea's biggest oil and gas producer plans job cuts
Major North Sea oil and gas operator Harbour Energy has revealed plans for job cuts, blaming the impact of the government's windfall tax on profits.
A spokesperson for Harbour, the biggest offshore producer in UK waters, told the Reuters news agency the job losses would impact its head office functions in Aberdeen.
They added that staff had been informed of the plans but the extent of the cuts were yet to be decided.
The final proposals would be subject to consultation, the spokesperson added.
It marked an escalation in the company's response to the rise in the levy on?energy?profits revealed in Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's autumn statement last November.
It took the rate to 35% from 25% as the government sought to recover some of the cost of its energy bill support for households and businesses.
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Construction Manager - USA
Proposal Manager - UK
Engineering Manager- Denmark
Project Director - Denmark
Business Developer For Power Trading - Denmark
Studies Manager - Denmark
Site Manager - Whitla Wind Farm - Canada
Project Control Manager - Finland
Network Engineer - Germany
Vice President HSSE Renewables - Germany
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Time For A Change ?
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Big Oil's good times set to roll on after record 2022 profits
The West's top energy firms are expected to rake in a combined record profit of $200 billion from a turbulent 2022 marked by huge volatility in oil and gas prices after Russia's invasion of Ukraine with buoyant earnings likely to roll through 2023.
Flush with cash, BP?(BP.L), Chevron?(CVX.N), Exxon Mobil?(XOM.N), Shell?(SHEL.L)?and TotalEnergies?(TTEF.PA)?also delivered shareholders unprecedented returns through dividends and share buybacks last year.
These firms are expected to post a combined profit of $199 billion for 2022 when they report final quarterly results later this month and in early February.
Profits are forecast to decline to $158 billion this year due to weaker energy prices and inflationary concerns, but that would still be well above the previous 2011 record, according to analysts estimates provided by Refinitiv.
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RENEWABLE ENERGY NEWS
45% renewables target ‘is ambitious but feasible’, says EU climate chief
The European Commission defended its proposal to source 45% of the EU’s energy from renewable sources by 2030 as EU countries look to lower ambition, EU climate chief Frans Timmermans told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.
EU countries and the European Parliament are currently in talks about a new law to boost green energy production, including a target setting out how much of Europe’s energy mix should come from renewables by 2030.
In December,?EU countries supported a 40% renewable energy target?as part of ongoing talks to revise the EU’s renewable energy directive, a goal lower than the 45% tabled by the EU’s executive Commission and supported by Parliament.
“I think we need to hold the line for 45%,” Timmermans said.
“If you see the pace with which our renewables are being built – offshore wind but especially also rooftop solar – I think the target is ambitious, but feasible,” he added.
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AIRSWIFT ARE #HIRING
Airswift are #recruiting globally right now.
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GLOBAL AIRSWIFT JOBS INCLUDE:
Construction Manager - USA
Mechanic - USA
HSE Advisor - Finland
Process Safety Engineer - Canada
Environmental Engineer - France
Project Manager - USA
Construction LNG Tanks Head - Doha
Project Coordinator - Canada
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Asia Set For Rapid Renewable Energy Expansion In 2023
The International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that renewable energy capacity in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding China, will expand by 360 GW, or 70%, in the 2022-27 period, with solar accounting for more than two-thirds of new deployment.?
Backed in part by demand from Singapore, which by 2035 aims to import up to 4 GW of low-carbon electricity, equivalent to 30% of its demand, Indonesia announced several new solar mega-projects in 2022.
Although Indonesia has just 210 MW in installed solar capacity, one of the smallest solar footprints in the world, planning has begun for projects amounting to up to 17,000 MW in capacity. All but 3300 MW is slated for export, signalling significant potential for future renewable projects for the domestic market.
For its part, in October 2021 Malaysia banned the export of renewably generated energy, citing domestic needs.?
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NUCLEAR NEWS
Filmmaker Oliver Stone slams environmental movement over ‘destructive’ actions on nuclear
The environmental movement’s stance on nuclear power is “wrong” and derailed the sector’s development, according to the filmmaker Oliver Stone.
Stone - who’s made a new documentary called “Nuclear Now” - was asked where his passion to tackle the climate crisis came from.
“Passion comes from the fact that … it’s my children, hopefully grandchildren soon,” replied Stone, who was speaking to CNBC on Tuesday afternoon.
“But what are they going to do? It’s going to be a miserable existence if we have worse and worse hurricanes, fires, droughts. It’s frightening.”
“We had the solution [nuclear power] … and the environmental movement, to be honest, just derailed it. I think the environmental movement did a lot of good, a lot of good ... [I’m] not knocking it, but in this one major matter, it was wrong. It was wrong.”?
“And what they did was so destructive, because by now we would have 10,000 nuclear reactors built around the world and we would have set an example like France set for us, but no one … followed France, or Sweden for that matter.”
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BOSS ENERGY JOBS HIRING?NOW INCLUDE:
VP of Engineering - USA
Senior Business Development Manager - Germany
Project Director - Saudi Arabia
Senior Technical Safety Engineer - Singapore
BESS Development Manager - London
Project Manager - Germany
Quality Engineer - USA
Senior Project Purchaser - Singapore
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EV and BATTERY NEWS
Britishvolt: UK battery start-up collapses into administration
UK battery start-up Britishvolt has collapsed into administration, with the majority of its 232 staff made redundant with immediate effect.
The firm had planned to build a giant factory to make electric car batteries in Blyth, Northumberland.
Ministers had hailed it as a "levelling up" opportunity that would boost the region's economy and support the future of UK car making.
But Britishvolt struggled to turn a profit and ran out of money. Its board is believed to have decided on Monday that there were no viable bids to keep the company afloat.
Plans for the ￡3.8bn factory in Blyth were part of a long-term vision to boost UK manufacturing of electric vehicle batteries and create around 3,000 skilled jobs.
The UK currently only has one Chinese-owned battery plant next to the Nissan factory in Sunderland, while 35 plants are planned or already under construction in the European Union.
Industry experts have said the UK will need several battery factories to support the future of UK car making as pure petrol and diesel engines are phased out over the next decade.
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