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EHN of Spain is planning to invest £352m in renewable energy projects across the UK over the next five years, and is setting up a headquarters in Newport, South Wales. 30-Dec-2003 Desire Petroleum is to raise £7.3m in a share placing to fund its oil exploration work in the north Falkland basin. 29-Dec-2003 Centrica has acquired two adjacent offshore wind farm sites in south Lincolnshire from AMEC Investment and Offshore Wind Power for an initial £7m. 24-Dec-2003 Scottish & Southern Energy has won approval to build a £90m wind farm near Girvan, South Ayrshire. 24-Dec-2003 Heerema is to create 250 new jobs at its Hartlepool yard, having won a contract to build part of an oil platform for EnCana. 23-Dec-2003 Centrica is to invest £1.5m at the Roosecote power station in Barrow, securing the future of 35 jobs. 23-Dec-2003 Novera Energy, the Australian renewable energy company that operates 13 generators on landfill sites in the UK, is to raise up to £20m by floating its European operations on Aim. 22-Dec-2003 Airtricity is looking to raise up to £84m to fund the expansion of its renewable energy business, including a wind farm off the coast of Suffolk. 22-Dec-2003 The Department of Trade & Industry has announced £1.8m of additional funding for 16 renewable energy projects across the country, including plans to power a new racecourse in Essex and a learning village in Croydon. 19-Dec-2003 The Welsh Development Agency is to support plans from GreenGas of Australia to set up a European headquarters in Llandeilo with the creation of 30 jobs, in preparation for the opening of a national network of alternative fuel engine conversion centres. 19-Dec-2003 The Crown Estate has selected developers for 15 offshore wind farm sites in the Thames Estuary, the Greater Wash and the North West, including a £1bn project in Kent proposed by RWE and PowerGen. 18-Dec-2003 AWG has won a £10m contract from Fred Olsen Renewables to build two wind farms at Cairn Uish and Paul's Hill in the Scottish Highlands, with the creation of 50 jobs. 18-Dec-2003 Enertrag UK is in talks with Breckland Council about plans to build a wind farm with eight turbines near Swaffham. 17-Dec-2003 Innogy is to abandon its Regenesys electricity storage project after its German parent RWE decided against providing sufficient capital expenditure to commercialise the technology. 17-Dec-2003 Suffolk Coastal Council is in talks with Saxon Windpower about plans to build a £10m wind farm on a former airbase near Framlingham in Suffolk. 15-Dec-2003 UK Coal is to introduce seven-day working at Kellingley colliery in Yorkshire with the creation of 240 jobs, but 70 jobs are being lost at its Ellington colliery and its Selby complex will close in June. 11-Dec-2003 Siemens Energy Services has won a £45m contract to maintain electricity meters for British Gas customers in East Anglia and North London, which will involve the creation of a number of administrative jobs at its Wollaton office in Nottinghamshire. 10-Dec-2003 ChevronTexaco is expected to shed up to 70 jobs at its oil refinery in Pembroke. 08-Dec-2003 Burren Energy is raising £20m in a flotation to fund the expansion of its oil exploration and production operations in Turkmenistan, the Republic of Congo and Egypt. 08-Dec-2003 Airtricity has won planning permission to build a £16m wind farm with 13 turbines at Tappaghan Mountain in Fermanagh. 05-Dec-2003 National Grid Transco is inviting tenders for gas network replacement contracts worth up to £500m over seven years. 03-Dec-2003 Edinburgh Oil & Gas has raised £3.2m from the sale of its 40% stake in the Ryedale gas fields in North Yorkshire to Viking Petroleum, in order to focus on offshore exploration. 02-Dec-2003 SBS Logistics has won a £25m five-year contract to provide onshore services for the Team Marine consortium of four oil companies operating in the central North Sea. 02-Dec-2003 The Department of Trade & Industry has awarded a £1.1m grant for the expansion of the Aberpergwm Colliery near Glynneath, with the creation of up to 78 jobs. 02-Dec-2003 UK Coal has secured a £36m government grant to invest in eight deep mines in Yorkshire, the Midlands and the north-east. 01-Dec-2003 Alnwick District Council is to consider outline proposals from National Wind Power to build a wind farm with 25 turbines at Middlemoor. 21-Nov-2003 Clugston has won a £60m contract to build a waste-to-energy plant in Sheffield, and the site will be operated by Onyx and Sheffield City Council. 20-Nov-2003 SolarGen Solutions has secured a £0.2m cash injection from Finance Wales to fund the expansion of its solar-powered products business. 20-Nov-2003 First Hydro is considering plans to sell off two power stations at Llanberis and Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales, as part of a deal to secure the future of US parent company Edison Mission Energy. 20-Nov-2003 PowerGen is to create 150 jobs at its customer service call centres in Nottingham. 20-Nov-2003 National Grid Transco is looking to sell up to four of its regional gas pipeline networks, including operations in the south, the north, the west, Scotland and Wales. 17-Nov-2003 BG Group and Petroplus have announced plans to build a £250m terminal at Milford Haven to import liquefied natural gas. 14-Nov-2003 Southampton City Council is to unveil plans for the development of a £40m gas-fired plant in Redbridge by 2005, in order to provide heat to 4,000 homes. 14-Nov-2003 UK Coal has won a £200m contract to supply up to 8m tonnes of coal to EdF Energy's West Burton and Cottam power stations. 13-Nov-2003 Gasunie is considering plans to build a £300m gas pipeline from the Netherlands to the Bacton terminal in Norfolk. 12-Nov-2003 Scottish & Southern Energy is considering plans to invest in new gas-fired power stations, and is also interested in the acquisition of regional gas transmission networks in Scotland and southern England. 07-Nov-2003 Scottish Power has announced plans to invest £1.1bn in the expansion of its UK and US electricity and gas operations over the next 18 months, including a £208m gas-fired power station in Utah. 05-Nov-2003 BP has won approval to build 300 petrol stations in the Guangdong province of China, in partnership with PetroChina. 05-Nov-2003 Sheffield City Council is seeking suitable locations to establish a wind farm with up to 15 turbines, and a feasibility study is being carried out by Sheffield First for the Environment. 05-Nov-2003 Sharp is to set up a £2.5m solar panels production facility at its plant in Wrexham, with the creation of 90 jobs by 2005. 31-Oct-2003 Amec has submitted plans to the Scottish Executive to develop a wind farm with 31 turbines at Aultmore Forest in Moray. 30-Oct-2003 Seascape Energy has secured a £10m government grant for the development of the £90m Burbo Bank wind farm in Liverpool Bay, and construction will start in 2005. 30-Oct-2003 Cambridgeshire County Council is considering plans from Wind Prospect to build a £15m wind farm with 12 turbines at Warboys. 29-Oct-2003 BP and Sonatrach of Algeria have formed a joint venture to import the entire capacity of National Grid Transco's LNG terminal at the Isle of Grain in Kent, in order to prevent a fuel shortage in the UK. 27-Oct-2003 The Department of Trade & Industry has approved plans for the development of four offshore wind farms in the North Sea, including sites at Ingoldmells, Skegness, Cromer and Clacton. 23-Oct-2003 Aker Kvaerner is to shed up to 37 of the 2,200 jobs at its oil engineering business in Aberdeen. 22-Oct-2003 BG Group is to buy three liquefied natural gas ships from Samsung Heavy Industries for about £270m, in order to increase its capacity to transport LNG from terminals in Trinidad and Egypt. 21-Oct-2003 SembCorp Utilities of Singapore has announced plans to invest £20m in the expansion of a gas turbine at the Wilton power station on Teesside. 21-Oct-2003 American Electric Power is looking to sell its UK power stations by the end of 2004, including Ferrybridge in Yorkshire and Fiddler's Ferry in Cheshire. 20-Oct-2003 UK Atomic Energy Authority has selected a consortium of Atkins, Serco Assurance, Taylor Woodrow and Weir Strachan & Henshaw to design a £100m waste store at the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness. 17-Oct-2003 Leicester City Council is considering plans to establish a £70m energy services company to oversee the development of projects that will help the city become self-sufficient in energy. 17-Oct-2003 Shell is to announce plans to build a £2.5bn natural gas to liquids plant in Qatar. 16-Oct-2003 ChevronTexaco is to set up a new 15,000 sq ft executive office at Chesterfield Gardens in west London. 13-Oct-2003 Airtricity is to build a £21m wind farm at Ardrossan in Ayrshire by the middle of next year, with construction being carried out by Vestas Wind and McAlpine Business Services. 09-Oct-2003 PwC has sold a power station at Shotton on Deeside out of administration to Gaz de France for undisclosed terms. 08-Oct-2003 Forest of Dean District Council is discussing plans to reopen the Lightmoor Colliery site near Cinderford as an opencast mine to extract about 2m tonnes of coal, which could create up to 40 jobs. 08-Oct-2003 Scottish & Southern Energy is to acquire sole ownership of Medway Power and its Isle of Grain power station, having agreed a £242m deal with EDF of France and AES of the US. 06-Oct-2003 Ramco Energy has raised £9.2m in a share placing to fund the Seven Heads offshore gas field development and further exploration work in the Celtic Sea. 02-Oct-2003 Renewable Energy Systems is planning to build a wind farm with eight turbines near the Angus village of Glamis. 29-Sep-2003 Wood Group has won a £250m contract to build and maintain offshore assets in the North Sea for Talisman Energy. 29-Sep-2003 Fusion Oil & Gas has received a £40m takeover approach from Sterling Energy, but has rejected the bid as undervaluing its West African exploration business. 26-Sep-2003 The North West Development Agency is setting up a regional energy council, in order to develop an energy policy for the region and improve its chances of hosting the country's first energy research centre. 24-Sep-2003 Highland Council is to consider plans from the Wind Energy consortium to build a large wind farm with 500 turbines on the Morvern and Adnamurchan peninsula and on the isle of Mull. 23-Sep-2003 Ocean Power Technologies of the US is planning to raise £25m in a flotation on Aim, in order to establish a UK business and build a wave power demonstration plant. 23-Sep-2003 Scottish & Southern Energy and Talisman are working on plans to develop a deep-water offshore wind farm at the Beatrice oilfield, including up to 200 turbines. 22-Sep-2003 Ceres Power is to raise £7m in a share placing to fund trials of its new technology that allows households to generate their own electricity from fuel cells. 22-Sep-2003 Schlumberger Oilfield Services is to create 100 new jobs at its Global Technology Centre in Gloucestershire by the end of next year, having won new contracts from Shell UK and BP Exploration. 17-Sep-2003 Shell has announced plans to invest £620m in Russia's Salym oil field, in partnership with Sibir Energy. 17-Sep-2003 Paladin Resources is planning to invest £90m in its newly-acquired North Sea oil operations. 17-Sep-2003 Aberdeen City Council and AMEC Wind have unveiled proposals for a £40m wind farm off Aberdeen beach, including a chain of 20 turbines. 16-Sep-2003 British Energy is planning to sell its 50% stake in AmerGen Energy, the US nuclear power plant operator, to FPL Energy for £174m. 15-Sep-2003 Biofuels Corporation has announced plans to build a £25m biodiesel production complex at Seal Sands on Teesside, with the creation of 75 jobs. 15-Sep-2003 Highland Council has approved plans from Highland Light & Power to build two hydroelectric power stations in Wester Ross. 15-Sep-2003 Centrica is to invest £100m in the development of an offshore wind farm near Barrow-in-Furness, in partnership with DONG of Denmark and Statkraft of Norway. 15-Sep-2003 BP is to lease a 128,000 sq ft office at 20 Canada Square in London's Canary Wharf. 12-Sep-2003 Wood Group, the Aberdeen-based energy services company, is to shed 25 of the 250 jobs at its heavy industrial turbines plant in Dundee. 11-Sep-2003 International Power has agreed a £130m deal to take control of the Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire. 01-Sep-2003 British Nuclear Fuels in discussing plans to transfer the engineering department at the Sellafield nuclear site to United Utilities, which could lead to the loss of 20 jobs. 01-Sep-2003 London Borough of Havering has approved plans for the development of two 85-metre wind turbines at Ford's Dagenham plant, which will provide the electricity requirements of the new diesel engine assembly hall. 27-Aug-2003 Edinburgh Oil & Gas has won five new exploration licences in the North Sea, and is negotiating a debt facility to fund the development of the Buzzard field. 22-Aug-2003 Alkane Energy is to acquire a 51% stake in Pro2, the German manufacturer of methane extraction equipment, for £2.8m. 21-Aug-2003 PowerGen is planning to restart a 650MW oil-fired power station at Grain in Kent next month, in anticipation of rising wholesale prices this winter. 20-Aug-2003 BP has put the lease and operation of its Sullom Voe power station out to tender, and interested parties include Scottish & Southern Electric, Fortum O&M, Innogy and Dalkia Utilities. 19-Aug-2003 Stafford Borough Council has received plans from Eccleshall Biomass to build a power station fuelled by elephant grass at the Raleigh Hall industrial estate in Eccleshall, and the equipment will be manufactured by Talbotts Heating. 18-Aug-2003 Centrica has won a contract from Norsk Hydro to build and operate a terminal at Easington to handle the import of gas from Norway by 2007. 18-Aug-2003 Goldman Sachs has offered £130m to take control of the Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire. 15-Aug-2003 Cairn Energy has disposed of its interests in the Dutch sector of the North Sea through the sale of its Holland Sea Search business to Dyas for £17m, in order to focus on South Asia. 14-Aug-2003 Pentex Oil has announced an oil discovery at Avington near Winchester, which could be the UK's largest onshore find for 20 years. 13-Aug-2003 PowerGen Renewables is to submit plans to build a 40MW wood-fuelled power plant in Lockerbie, with the creation of 70 jobs. 12-Aug-2003 Dumfries & Galloway Council has approved plans from Universal Steels of Fife to build a factory to make offshore wind farm equipment at Creetown, with the creation of about 90 jobs. 12-Aug-2003 Viridian has formed The Action Renewables partnership with the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Investment in order to encourage the development of small-scale renewable energy projects in Northern Ireland. 12-Aug-2003 South Hams District Council and Devon County Council are to start talks with Carlton Power about plans to revive the £400m Langage Energy Project in Plymouth, and construction work on the power plant could start within 18 months. 12-Aug-2003 Mid Suffolk District Council has been approached by Hertfordshire-based Tradelink Solutions about plans to build a wind farm at Mendlesham airfield near Stowmarket. 11-Aug-2003 UK Coal has applied for a share of a £79m government grant to develop new coal reserves at eight mines and secure the future of 4,000 jobs. 08-Aug-2003 Dolphin Drilling is to create 20 additional office jobs in Aberdeen, having won a number of offshore drilling contracts in Mexico and India. 07-Aug-2003 PowerGen is to set up a credit management call centre in India, and the 300 staff will be employed by outsourcing company Vertex. 07-Aug-2003 Blaenau Gwent Council is to receive plans from Pennant Wind Energy Ventures for the development of a £25m wind farm near Cwmtillery. 06-Aug-2003 Coalpower has won government permission to build a £350m coal-fired power station near Hatfield Colliery in Yorkshire. 06-Aug-2003 Cairn Energy is to acquire Shell's upstream assets in Bangladesh for £30m, in order to benefit from rising demand in the local gas market. 05-Aug-2003 Vestas-Celtic Wind Technology is to invest £1.4m in the expansion of its wind turbine manufacturing plant in Kintyre, in order to expand its product range and increase production capacity. 04-Aug-2003 Tullow Oil has won four government licences to explore for oil and gas in the North Sea. 04-Aug-2003 Venture Production has acquired First Oil's interests in the southern North Sea for £6.6m, and has also won licences to develop additional blocks with Dana Petroleum. 04-Aug-2003 National Grid Transco is said to be seeking potential bidders for some of its local gas pipeline networks, and an auction could raise up to £5bn. 04-Aug-2003 Shell is to sell its 12 remaining petrol stations in Northern Ireland to John Henderson Group. 01-Aug-2003 Centrica is planning to spend £500m on the development of 1,000 MW of renewable energy by 2010, which will mainly involve offshore wind farms. 01-Aug-2003 Centrica is to acquire a power station in South Wales from AES of the US for £40m. 25-Jul-2003 Texaco is to shed 120 jobs at its refinery in Pembroke over the next two years. 21-Jul-2003 Amec, in a joint venture with Jacobs Engineering and Stork, has won a £238m contract from Shell to provide maintenance and logistical support services for offshore platforms across the Southern North Sea. 17-Jul-2003 The Department of Trade & Industry has announced plans for a major expansion of the offshore wind farm sector, and developers will be able to apply for licences in north Wales, Cumbria, the Wash and the Thames estuary. 15-Jul-2003 BP has acquired 25 service stations in central Scotland from Texaco, in exchange for 21 of its own sites in Wales and the south-west. 11-Jul-2003 Shell has sold a number of its maturing North Sea assets to a start-up operation called Energy North Sea for about £100m, including 41% interests in the Montrose, Arbroath and Arkwright fields. 10-Jul-2003 Innogy Hydro has won planning permission to build a £3.2m hydro power station at Garrogie near Loch Ness by summer 2004. 07-Jul-2003 Lazard Brothers has been appointed by a number of banks to examine ways to restructure the UK's independent power generation industry, which could result in the banks pooling their loans to the sector and a reduction in capacity. 07-Jul-2003 ExxonMobil is planning to shed up to 1,500 jobs across Europe over the next few years, which will involve the rationalisation of a number of support functions and the loss of several hundred jobs in the UK. 07-Jul-2003 UK Coal is seeking permission to set up an opencast coal mine near the villages of Harlington and Bolton-on-Dearne in South Yorkshire. 03-Jul-2003 British Energy is to close its head office in East Kilbride with the loss of 80 jobs, open a smaller office elsewhere in Scotland and transfer 150 jobs to Gloucester. 03-Jul-2003 Moray Council is considering proposals from the Kirkmichael & Tomintoul Community Association for the development of a £14m wood-burning power station in Glenlivet. 01-Jul-2003 Auiron Energy has dropped plans to set up a £500m lignite mining project in County Antrim, having failed to find a partner to build a power station at the Ballymoney site. 30-Jun-2003 The Department of Trade & Industry has announced plans to establish a state-funded authority to control the clean-up of nuclear waste at power stations and research facilities throughout the country. 25-Jun-2003 Betws Colliery in west Wales is planning to close with the loss of 110 jobs, but crisis talks will be held with the DTI to try to save the pit. 24-Jun-2003 BP is to raise £440m from the sale of half of its Algerian natural gas assets to Statoil of Norway. 24-Jun-2003 Harrogate Borough Council has approved plans from two North Yorkshire farmers to build a hydroelectric power plant at Linton Lock, and the output will be sold to the National Grid. 20-Jun-2003 AEA Technology is planning to complete the sale of its nuclear division by the end of the year, which will involve the disposal of its nuclear experimenting and QSA radioactive materials operations. 20-Jun-2003 Compact Power is to invest £1m in the installation of a steam sterilisation unit at its Avonmouth plant, which will double the amount of waste that can be processed in a year. 18-Jun-2003 Scottish Power has raised £430m through a convertible bond to help fund a £900m capital investment programme in activities such as generation, networks and gas storage. 18-Jun-2003 Tullow Oil is to acquire a 19% stake in the Bacton onshore gas terminal from ConocoPhillips for £2.3m, and will also take responsibility for operating the site. 17-Jun-2003 Burren Energy is planning a £100m flotation later this year in order to raise its profile and accelerate its oil drilling programme in Turkmenistan and the Republic of Congo. 16-Jun-2003 Western Isles Council is in discussions with Beinn Mhor Power about plans to build a wind farm on the Eishken Estate on Lewis, with either 25 or 125 turbines. 13-Jun-2003 Amerada Hess is to shed up to 85 jobs at its oil and gas business in Aberdeen, while 160 staff will be transferred to Canadian-owned EnCana and its London workforce will be cut from 184 to less than 100. 11-Jun-2003 United Utilities and Peel Holdings are to submit plans for a £50m 26-turbine wind farm on moor land between Rawtenstall and Rochdale. 10-Jun-2003 Warwickshire County Council has approved plans from De Mulder & Sons to build a renewable energy facility next to its animal rendering plant in Hartshill. 09-Jun-2003 NM Rothschild, the investment bank, is planning to set up an oil trading business in London this year, dealing in over-the-counter products. 09-Jun-2003 Government Office for the North East is seeking suitable locations for a large wind farm in Kielder Forest. 02-Jun-2003 PricewaterhouseCoopers has sold the Eggborough-based willow-fuelled power station out of liquidation to DAS Green Energy of the US, and the new owner is expected to seek financial help from the government to continue the project. 02-Jun-2003 National Wind Power has won permission to build a 16-turbine wind farm near Resolven in Neath Port Talbot. 30-May-2003 Isleburn Mackay & Macleod has won a £6m contract to produce wind farm equipment for Vestas, which will create 100 jobs at a former oil platform fabrication yard at Nigg on the Cromarty Firth. 22-May-2003 Asco is planning to shed up to 68 jobs from its 250-strong workforce in Peterhead, having lost an offshore support contract from BP. 22-May-2003 BP and the Iranian Oil Company are to invest about £350m in the development of the Rhum gas field in North Sea. 22-May-2003 The Engineering Business has secured an additional £2.1m government grant to fund the development of its Stingray Tidal Stream Generator, which will be reinstalled in Yell Sound in Shetland this summer. 20-May-2003 Aker Kvaerner is to make Aberdeen its global centre of expertise for subsea control systems, with the relocation of some staff from London. 20-May-2003 Scottish Power is planning to upgrade the Ben Cruachan hydro-electric scheme in the Highlands, at a cost of £18m. 20-May-2003 Biofuels Corporation is considering sites in Middlesbrough, Liverpool and Hull to set up the world's largest biodiesel production complex, with the creation of up to 70 jobs. 15-May-2003 Hampshire County Council is to consider plans from Star Energy for the development of a £13m gas pipeline at the Humbly Grove Oilfield near Basingstoke, in order to use the site as a gas storage facility during periods of low demand. 13-May-2003 Statnett is seeking permission from the Norwegian Petroleum & Energy Ministry to exchange electricity between Norway and the UK, which could lead to the development of a £700m underwater power cable in partnership with National Grid Transco. 13-May-2003 Centrica has been warned by the Competition Commission that it may have to sell the recently-acquired Rough gas storage facility in the North Sea, in order to ensure that competitors have better access. 09-May-2003 Scottish & Southern Energy has announced plans to build a £85m hydro-electric power station near Fort Augustus. 08-May-2003 Scottish Power is planning to spend up to £800m developing wind farms across the country. 08-May-2003 Your Energy is considering plans to build a £25m wind farm near Scotter in Lincolnshire. 07-May-2003 Auiron Energy has had its shares suspended on Aim, and talks are underway for a reverse takeover by Resource Management & Mining of Australia. 07-May-2003 Highland Light & Power has submitted plans to the Scottish Executive to build small hydro-electric stations at Shieldaig and Slattadale. 06-May-2003 Shell is looking to sell or close up to 600 petrol stations in France, due to competition from hypermarkets. 01-May-2003 Venture Production and Dana Petroleum are to acquire the producing Kittiwake and Mallard fields in the central North Sea from Shell and Esso, including the associated oil storage infrastructure. 30-Apr-2003 Perth & Kinross Council is to consider plans from British Energy Renewables for the development of three turbines at a site in Dunning, to test the suitability of the area for a wind farm. 29-Apr-2003 British Nuclear Fuels is planning to relocate up to 350 staff from Sellafield to a multi-million pound purpose-built office block in Whitehaven, and plans have been submitted to Copeland Borough Council. 25-Apr-2003 Amec has formed a joint venture with Fluor of the US to bid for work to rebuild the oil industry infrastructure in Iraq. 25-Apr-2003 Centrica is to acquire the Roosecote gas-fired power station in Barrow-in-Furness out of administration for £24m. 23-Apr-2003 International Power is linking up with Japanese companies Tepco and Mitsui to acquire a 40% stake in the Umm Al Nar water and power plant in Abu Dhabi, and the consortium will develop a new gas-fired plant on the site. 23-Apr-2003 Ramco Energy is to reposition itself as a European shallow water gas producer, focusing on operations in Ireland, Poland and Montenegro. 16-Apr-2003 Scottish & Southern Energy and Scottish Power have outlined multi-million pound investment plans to upgrade their transmission networks, allowing energy generated in the Highlands to be transmitted to the rest of the country. 16-Apr-2003 Wood Group has won an estimated £50m contract from TotalFinaElf Exploration UK to provide engineering, procurement, construction, and ancillary services in the North Sea. 16-Apr-2003 StrataGas is planning to drill boreholes in the east of Cheshire to test for coalbed methane, following the DTI's decision to award licences to a number of companies. 11-Apr-2003 Your Energy has unveiled plans to establish a wind farm near Kettering, with up to 10 turbines. 09-Apr-2003 Transco has won permission to build a liquefied natural gas import facility at the Isle of Grain in the Thames Estuary, and the first shipments are expected to arrive in early 2005. 08-Apr-2003 The Department of Trade & Industry has awarded a £0.5m grant to the Eccleshall Biomass farmers' co-operative to build a power station fuelled by elephant grass in Staffordshire, and a number of similar projects will receive funding elsewhere in the country. 07-Apr-2003 Weatherford International has announced plans to close its QMS factory in Arbroath, which manufactures flow control products for the oil industry, with the loss of 163 jobs. 04-Apr-2003 Shell is planning to close its regional headquarters in Lowestoft with the loss of 200 jobs, while 100 jobs are expected to be lost in Aberdeen. 03-Apr-2003 The Scottish Executive has approved plans from Fred Olsen Renewables for the development of a 28-turbine wind farm at Ballindalloch near Elgin. 03-Apr-2003 The Department of Trade & Industry is planning to set up the headquarters of the new Nuclear Decommissioning Agency in Whitehaven, with the creation of about 200 jobs. 01-Apr-2003 Alkane Energy, the producer of coal mine methane, is halving its UK workforce due to low energy prices, with its development team, engineers and support staff being cut from 24 to 12. 01-Apr-2003 Dana Petroleum is planning to establish eight exploration wells over the next 18 months, and is also looking to acquire more North Sea assets from the major oil companies. 28-Mar-2003 The Department of Trade & Industry has announced grants totalling £42m for wind energy projects around the UK coastline, including sites at Rhyl Flats and Kent. 27-Mar-2003 Venture Production is looking to spend up to £100m on the acquisition of unwanted oil fields in the North Sea this year. 27-Mar-2003 Shell is planning to shed more than 4,000 jobs, in a restructuring of its worldwide exploration and production operations. 27-Mar-2003 The Scottish Executive is to invest £2m in a marine energy research centre in Orkney, in order to study wave and tidal power. 26-Mar-2003 Shell is to invest £75m in clean fuel technology at the Stanlow Refinery in Cheshire, including the installation of new petrol-treating facilities and an upgrade to existing diesel facilities. 25-Mar-2003 Renewable Devices is planning to create 15 engineering jobs in the Midlothian area, as it prepares for the launch of a household wind turbine. 25-Mar-2003 Global Natural Energy has expanded its Petrol Express petrol station network with the acquisition of five sites from Copes Service Stations and Freeheart, and they will be rebranded under new supply agreements with Texaco and Londis. 24-Mar-2003 Scottish & Southern Energy is forming a £10m joint venture with Weir Group to develop renewable power generation and control systems, in order to benefit from the growing interest in wave and tidal energy. 24-Mar-2003 Venture Production has acquired an additional 50% stake in the Chestnut oil field in the central North Sea from Amerada Hess for an initial £6.5m. 21-Mar-2003 The Scottish Executive has approved plans from Offshore Energy Resources for the development of a £200m wind farm at Robin Rigg in the Solway Firth. 20-Mar-2003 Wintershall of Germany is looking to enter the UK energy market, as part of a European expansion programme in partnership with Gazprom of Russia. 20-Mar-2003 NPower has launched a recruitment drive to fill more than 200 vacancies at its energy billing call centres in Team Valley, Thornaby and Peterlee. 18-Mar-2003 Shell is planning to shed 350 jobs from its North Sea offshore workforce, in order to cut costs and streamline the business. 17-Mar-2003 Sondex is looking to raise new funds to expand its oil services product range, and one possibility is a flotation. 17-Mar-2003 BG Group has raised £600m from the sale of its stake in the North Caspian Sea oil project to Sinopec of China, and the proceeds will be invested in schemes such as the North Sea Buzzard field and Egyptian LNG. 12-Mar-2003 The National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth is one of 18 buildings around the country to share £2m of government funding to fit solar panels. 12-Mar-2003 Alkane has reached agreement with A-TEC and Pro2 of Germany to develop methane generation facilities at abandoned coal mines in Gelsenkirchen, which will involve a £1.3m investment over ten years. 12-Mar-2003 PowerGen is to invest £120m in renewable energy projects in 2003, including a 40MW wood-burning power station in Lockerbie, wind farms and two hydroelectric plants. 11-Mar-2003 Tullow is raising £14m in a share placing, and is looking to spend up to £160m on the acquisition of oil and gas assets. 11-Mar-2003 Wood Group is considering four possible acquisitions over the next few months to expand its Aberdeen-based oil services business. 11-Mar-2003 UK Coal is said to be planning to shed up to 100 jobs, as part of a restructuring that will create new divisions for mining, property management and household fuels. 06-Mar-2003 PowerGen has finalised plans to build a £75m windfarm at Scorby Sands off the Norfolk coast by autumn 2004, and the offshore work will be handled by Vestas Celtic Wind Technology. 04-Mar-2003 The Department of Trade & Industry is to provide a £60m aid package to the coal industry over the next three years, with the funds available only for capital investment programmes. 04-Mar-2003 Energy Power Resources Scotland is to receive a £5m government cash incentive to build a £17m combined heat and power generator at the Arjo Wiggins paper plant in Fort William. 25-Feb-2003 The Department of Trade & Industry has issued a White Paper to increase the use of renewable energy, including proposals to more than double the number of windfarms. 25-Feb-2003 BP is said to be considering plans to set up a major new headquarters in Aberdeen, and may lodge a planning application by the summer to revamp its existing site in Dyce or build a new base nearby. 24-Feb-2003 Celtic Energy has won approval from Neath Port Talbot Council to set up an opencast mine in the Amman Valley, and UK Coal will take overall responsibility for the site. 19-Feb-2003 SLP Engineering is hoping to build a centre of excellence for renewable energy in Lowestoft, which would involve a cluster of offices at the base of its proposed wind turbine at Ness Point. 19-Feb-2003 BP is to sell its gas production interests in the southern basin of the North Sea to Perenco of France for £104m. 14-Feb-2003 BP is to invest £4bn in the acquisition of a 50% stake in the TNK oil company in Russia, and has also announced plans to invest in oil fields in Azerbaijan, the Gulf of Mexico, Trinidad and Angola. 12-Feb-2003 Mid Devon District Council is considering plans for the construction of Devon's first three wind turbines, on land owned by Huntsham Estate near Tiverton. 12-Feb-2003 UK Atomic Energy Authority is seeking permission to build a £16m waste transfer facility at its Dounreay site. 06-Feb-2003 Shell UK has unveiled a £175m investment package for oil exploration work in the southern North Sea over the next three years. 30-Jan-2003 Innogy is considering plans to fit a flue gas desulphurisation unit at the coal-fired Aberthaw power station, in order to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions. 22-Jan-2003 BP has announced plans to spend £26m on the restoration of a fluidised catalytic cracking unit at its Grangemouth plant near Falkirk by March 2004. 22-Jan-2003 BP is to shed 1,000 jobs in the US, including 150 exploration and production jobs in Houston and 500 retail marketing jobs in Atlanta. 22-Jan-2003 PowerGen is to shed 962 jobs in its energy retail operations, affecting sites in Ipswich, Rayleigh, Bolton and London. 21-Jan-2003 Dana Petroleum and 3i are investing £7m in an equity stake in Faroe Petroleum, in order to fund its oil exploration programme off the coast of the Shetland Islands. 20-Jan-2003 Subsea 7 has announced new contracts worth £36m for its Scottish underwater oil and gas pipeline contracting business, which will involve about 400 workers for a period of six months. 15-Jan-2003 Scottish & Southern Energy has announced proposals to build a windfarm at New Luce in Galloway. 14-Jan-2003 Sir Robert McAlpine has submitted a report to the government recommending the revival of plans for a huge tidal barrier across the Severn Estuary, which could cost up to £8bn and generate 6% of the UK's electricity. 14-Jan-2003 BP is to sell the Forties oilfield in the North Sea and 61 small Gulf of Mexico fields to Apache of the US in a £830m deal, and the proceeds will be invested in other assets in the Gulf of Mexico and Azerbaijan. 14-Jan-2003 PowerGen is to close two coal-fired power stations - High Marnham in Nottinghamshire and Drakelow C near Burton-on-Trent - with the loss of 200 jobs. 10-Jan-2003 Renewable Energy Systems is to submit plans later this year for a 50-turbine windfarm in the Keadby area of North Lincolnshire. 09-Jan-2003 PowerGen is to create 100 jobs at its customer service centres in Nottingham, and 150 jobs will be created at its Leicester site. 08-Jan-2003 The University of East Anglia is developing technology to enable historic windmills to generate electricity, and the Norfolk Windmills Trust is expected to seek government research aid for at least one such project. 06-Jan-2003 United Utilities has unveiled proposals to build 12 wind turbines at Clowbridge near Burnley. 02-Jan-2003 The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. 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