BG Group today announced an update on the Tupi and Guará fields in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The update relates to the first two Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels on the Tupi field and the first FPSO on the Guará field.

Progress and Status
Origin Energy, on behalf of the T/44P Joint Venture, advises that as at 6:00 EDT on Thursday 9 December operations at the Silvereye 1 exploration well were running in to hole prior to drilling ahead from 1,112mRT.

SNC-Lavalin is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract to design, build, operate and maintain a workforce lodge for oil sands workers in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

TGS will commence a multi-client 3D survey Offshore Benin in blocks 5 and 6. This project covers roughly 4,000 km2 in the deep water area of Benin.   Data acquisition will commence in January 2011 and is expected to be completed in Q2 2011.  This project is the second in a series of surveys along the […]

Beach advises the following in relation to its operations in PEL’s 91 and 92 in the Western Flank of the Cooper Basin:
planning underway for two drilling rigs to commence a minimum 15 well drill program in January/February 2011; and construction of a new bridge over Cooper Creek, to give access to Western flank oil […]

Rajeev Gupta, director finance of KEI Industries, in an interview on CNBC-TV18 spoke about the latest happenings in his company and sector.

REC today launched their first building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) solution combining the high performing REC Peak Energy Series Module and the proven SolrifTM installation system distributed by Ernst Schweitzer AG.

Conergy AG is selling off its German and French wind development and operating business to an investment fund managed by Impax Asset Management, as part of its programme to refocus on its core solar business.

LDK Solar announced that the company has entered into a multi-year wafer and polysilicon supply contract with Shanxi Lu’an Photovoltaic Technology, a subsidiary of Lu’an Group.

Kern Community College District and SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB) are dedicating today a 1.1-megawatt solar power system atBakersfield College.  The system is expected to supply approximately one-third of the college’s electricity demand, due in large part to the use of SunPower’s high-efficiency solar panels and advanced sun-tracking technology.