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Lattice is considering plans to build a large liquefied natural gas import terminal on the Isle of Grain in Kent, in preparation for the UK becoming a net importer of gas in about 2004. 31-Dec-2001 Ecotricity has announced plans to build a £4m wind farm near Dereham in Norfolk, including three turbines. 24-Dec-2001 Redcar Council is to consider plans from Corus and Amec for the development of a £30m wind farm with 19 turbines at Lackenby on the South Bank of the Tees. 21-Dec-2001 Shell is to start looking for acquisitions with a potential war chest of up to £13.9bn, and has also indicated that up to £5bn of poorly-performing assets could be sold off unless improvements are made. 18-Dec-2001 Mountwest Petroleum Engineering has set up a new drilling tools business called Mountwest Services in Aberdeen, where it plans to create up to 25 jobs over the next few years. 17-Dec-2001 AEA Technology is to shed up to 100 jobs at its Nuclear Science division at Harwell, which is set to be sold off to an unnamed buyer next year. 17-Dec-2001 Renewable Development Company has won planning consent for a £35m wind farm with 39 turbines at Cefn Croes, Ceredigion. 12-Dec-2001 Scottish & Southern Energy has announced plans to build a £60m 50-70 turbine wind farm near Girvan in South Ayrshire. 12-Dec-2001 Sibir Energy is to invest £26m in the Upper Salym oil field in Russia over the next two years, having agreed to acquire Shell's 50% stake in return for funding and operating the development. 11-Dec-2001 Blenkinsopp Colliery in Northumberland is to close with the loss of 84 mining jobs, having failed to secure additional government funding. 10-Dec-2001 BP has announced plans to go ahead with the £53m development of the Maclure field north-east of Aberdeen, and production will start next year. 05-Dec-2001 Walters Mining has submitted plans for a £35m open-cast mining project at Winchfawr West near Merthyr Tydfil, which could create up to 100 jobs. 04-Dec-2001 UK Coal is to review the financial viability of the Prince of Wales colliery near Pontefract, which could lead to the pit being closed with the loss of 500 jobs. 04-Dec-2001 Waveney District Council is to consider plans from Next Generation for the development of a wind turbine at Lowestoft's Ness Point. 03-Dec-2001 British Energy and Amec are discussing plans for a £500m wind farm in the Outer Hebrides. 29-Nov-2001 Scottish Power has announced plans to upgrade the electricity network in the Borders region at a cost of £11m, which will create about 100 jobs. 28-Nov-2001 Axiomlab and Energetic Communications have announced the formation of Energetix Group, which will identify new renewable energy technologies and provide infrastructure, management and technical resources. 27-Nov-2001 Centrica has announced the £62m purchase of North Sea and Irish Sea gas reserves from four companies - Innogy, Kerr-McGee, Amerada Hess and Burlington Resources. 23-Nov-2001 United Utilities is planning to invest £200m in renewable energy schemes, including wind farms, landfill gas, biomass and hydroelectric plants. 19-Nov-2001 Heerema is to start recruiting 300 workers at its offshore yard in Hartlepool to work on the Shell Bonga contract for a Nigerian oil installation. 16-Nov-2001 PowerGen is seeking outline planning permission from Tewkesbury Borough Council to build a gas-fired power plant at the DuPont site in Brockworth. 15-Nov-2001 Scottish Coal has announced 170 redundancies at the Longannet deep mine in Fife due to geological problems. 15-Nov-2001 Ramco Energy is to seek a full listing on the London Stock Exchange early next year, in order to boost the liquidity of its oil exploration business. 14-Nov-2001 BP is to shed 1,000 jobs at its Grangemouth refinery and petrochemical complex, following a review of its management and financial performance. 14-Nov-2001 Trent Energy is planning to spend £1m test drilling for oil at four sites near Nottingham, and the reserves are estimated at up to 28m barrels of crude. 14-Nov-2001 BP is developing what is claimed to be the world's most environmentally friendly forecourt store at Hornchurch in Essex, using a combination of wind and solar power, and the concept could be extended to other sites. 12-Nov-2001 The government is considering plans to develop a 400-mile undersea cable off the western coast of Britain to link wind farms and hydro power stations to the national grid. 12-Nov-2001 Scottish & Southern Energy has announced plans to invest £450m in renewable energy, including the refurbishment of hydro power stations and the development of wind farms. 09-Nov-2001 Fenland District Council is to consider plans from Bristol-based Wind Prospect for the development of a wind farm with nine turbines at Stag's Holt, between March and Wisbech. 08-Nov-2001 Innogy is planning to create 500 new jobs at its Nvisage billing call centre in Peterlee, which currently employs 700. 07-Nov-2001 PowerGen is planning to raise £236m from the sale of two US power stations to Progress Energy. 07-Nov-2001 BP is to provide $10m of funding to the Chinese Academy of Sciences for a 10-year research programme into strategic and technical issues relating to the development of cleaner sources of energy. 06-Nov-2001 The government has announced £100m of aid for renewable energy, including £25m of capital grants for offshore windfarms, £33m for green energy crops, £5m for wave and tidal projects and £20m for solar and other technologies. 06-Nov-2001 SLP Engineering has submitted plans to build a 150-metre land-based 3.2MW wind turbine at Ness Point in Lowestoft, in order to test the technology before developing future schemes out at sea. 05-Nov-2001 Taylor Woodrow is seeking permission to build an 11-storey green building powered by the wind and the sun, as part of a new £130m village in Manchester city centre. 29-Oct-2001 TXU is looking to sell the West Burton coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire for £400m. 29-Oct-2001 BG Group has sold its stake in BG Rimi to CPL Concordia for £11m, in order to reduce its oil and gas exploration interests in Italy. 29-Oct-2001 British Gas is to invest £2.7m at its National Sales Centre in Cardiff, with the creation of a further 200 jobs. 26-Oct-2001 Intersolar has won a share of a £4m government grant for the development of housing schemes powered by solar energy. 24-Oct-2001 Halliburton of the US is to merge its subsea business with Norwegian offshore contractor DSND, and the new company will be based in Aberdeen. 22-Oct-2001 Scottish Power is expected to appeal against Cheshire County Council's rejection of its plans to build a £70m gas storage and processing plant at Byley. 22-Oct-2001 Paladin Resources, the oil exploration and production company, is to raise £19m in a share placing to fund acquisitions. 19-Oct-2001 Torren Energy is to install a district heating system that uses forestry waste and pulp at a £4m 50-home housing development at Lochgilphead in Scotland. 18-Oct-2001 Scottish Power is forming a joint venture with Sainsbury to supply gas and electricity through supermarkets, starting with a trial in six stores. 18-Oct-2001 BP has announced plans to proceed with the £650m development of the Clair oil field west of Shetland, with construction starting early next year. 18-Oct-2001 Ramco Energy has announced a "substantial" gas discovery at the Seven Heads field off the coast of Ireland. 17-Oct-2001 Shell is linking up with Akzo Nobel of the Netherlands to develop low-cost solar cell technology. 17-Oct-2001 Marchwood Power is seeking government approval for a £300m project to build an 860MW gas-fired power station in Marchwood, Hampshire. 15-Oct-2001 Scottish Power has won a £69m 20-year contract to supply power from its Seattle Wind Plant development to the city of Seattle's municipal electricity supplier. 15-Oct-2001 London Electricity is planning to create 600 new jobs at its call centre in Sunderland over the next two years, using space freed up by the relocation of the One-2-One call centre to the nearby Doxford Technology Park. 12-Oct-2001 The Coal Authority has approved plans from Coal Power to restart production at Hatfield Colliery, which has estimated coal reserves of up to 23m tonnes. 09-Oct-2001 Edison Mission has agreed to sell the Ferrybridge power station in Yorkshire and Fiddler's Ferry in Cheshire to American Electric Power for £650m, but aims to keep its other UK generation assets. 09-Oct-2001 Renewable Energy Systems has won planning permission to build a £15m windfarm at Glens of Foudland in Aberdeenshire, and the 21 turbines could be operational within 12 months. 08-Oct-2001 BP is to set up a new global headquarters for 200 senior staff in London's West End early next year, having bought the freehold of No 1 St James's Square for about £110m. 08-Oct-2001 Torridge District Council is considering plans from two alternative energy groups for the development of a £2.5m wind farm at Bradworthy in Devon. 04-Oct-2001 British Nuclear Fuels has won government approval to put its Mox fuel fabrication plant at Sellafield into full commercial operation, securing 300 jobs. 04-Oct-2001 Amerada Hess is planning to explore the Barbara oil and gas prospect in the North Sea 140 miles east of Aberdeen, and drilling will start next month. 03-Oct-2001 Amerada Hess of the US has put its UK electricity and gas supply operations up for sale. 02-Oct-2001 Sibir Energy is planning to sell off its stake in the North Sea in order to reduce borrowings and focus on its activities in Russia. 01-Oct-2001 Scottish Power is looking to buy up to 2,000MW of power generating plant in England and Wales and is in discussions with a number of parties. 01-Oct-2001 Ecotricity has launched the UK's first fully commercial wind turbine at a Sainsbury's distribution depot in East Kilbride. 28-Sep-2001 The Northern Ireland Executive has approved plans from Bord Gais Eireann to build a £60m gas pipeline from Gormanstown in Co Meath to Antrim, which means that plans for a new £150m power station at Coolkeeragh can also proceed. 24-Sep-2001 BP is planning to build a new £110m North Sea headquarters in Aberdeen to house 2,000 staff, and has also reaffirmed plans to invest $1bn a year on UK offshore development over the next four years. 21-Sep-2001 International Energy Group is looking to spend up to £100m on acquisitions to expand its Guernsey-based gas distribution business across western Europe. 21-Sep-2001 Clarke Energy is forming a partnership with De Wind of Germany to develop onshore wind farms at a number of locations across the UK. 20-Sep-2001 Yorkshire Water is testing vegetable oil as a new fuel to power its sludge-burning incinerator at Cooper Bridge near Huddersfield, in order to cut energy costs and reduce the use of fossil fuels. 20-Sep-2001 Transco has been ordered by the Health & Safety Executive to speed up plans for the replacement of more than 90,000km of iron gas mains located near buildings. 20-Sep-2001 Shell Expro has unveiled plans to build an onshore gas plant at the St Fergus terminal near Peterhead, which will involve laying a 65-mile pipeline and the creation of 400 construction jobs and 25 permanent jobs. 19-Sep-2001 Premier Oil has formed a £135m joint venture with the Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company, which will involve the transfer of half its Pakistani gas interests. 18-Sep-2001 The Irish Electricity Supply Board is considering plans for a £220m interconnector to link the electricity networks of Ireland and Britain, in order to promote competition and cope with periods of high demand. 17-Sep-2001 The University of Ulster has unveiled plans for a multi-million pound research centre to develop new and renewable sources of energy, which will be completed by autumn 2002. 14-Sep-2001 UK Coal is planning to cut production costs in its mines by 20%, which could involve mothballing several collieries, while capital expenditure is expected to reach £60m this year. 14-Sep-2001 Alkane Energy is on target to open about 100 methane gas production plants on abandoned coal mines over the next five years, and is planning to apply for additional UK onshore licences next month. 13-Sep-2001 British Energy has submitted proposals to the government for a £10bn investment in new nuclear power stations, in an attempt to ensure that nuclear is included in the government's energy review. 12-Sep-2001 Wavegen is planning to build a £2.7m floating wave power generator, which would be linked to the Orkney power grid but could be towed to other areas. 11-Sep-2001 Enterprise Oil has discovered gas reserves 60 miles north-west of the Hebrides, raising hopes that a west coast oil and gas industry could be developed. 10-Sep-2001 British Nuclear Fuels is to shed about 60 jobs at its Magnox centre near Stroud over the next few years, in order to transfer some research work to Cumbria. 10-Sep-2001 Weatherford, the US oil services group, is to set up a £1.5m research headquarters at the Aberdeen Offshore Technology Park, with the creation of 12 jobs. 07-Sep-2001 Hunting is planning to expand its oil services business with five acquisitions this year, including four in Canada and one in Europe. 07-Sep-2001 Centrica is looking to acquire a further 1,000MW of power station capacity in the UK, and is also aiming for expansion in the UK water services and the US gas and electricity markets. 07-Sep-2001 Dana Petroleum is to raise £25m in a share placing, in order to finance its oil exploration programme in the North Sea, Africa and Indonesia. 31-Aug-2001 Innogy, the electricity supply company, is to close call centres in Bradford, Swindon, Worcester and Sheffield, and up to 900 of the 1,100 staff will be offered employment in Peterlee and Stoke. 30-Aug-2001 Atlantic Caspian Resources has acquired the Kizaloy Gas Field in Kazakhstan, and will consider putting the field into production. 29-Aug-2001 Scottish Power has won permission to build a £10m electricity substation on a 20-acre site at Aldermans Seat Farm near Gretna. 29-Aug-2001 BG has paid $80m to buy out its local partner in the Gujarat Pipavav liquefied natural gas project in India, and is planning to invest a further $550m in the terminal. 29-Aug-2001 Innogy's National Wind Power division has launched a government-backed scheme to encourage farmers to install small-scale wind turbines on their land. 29-Aug-2001 National Grid is planning to invest up to £1.6bn in the US having won a contract to manage the new Alliance Regional Transmission Organisation, which covers power lines in 11 eastern states. 29-Aug-2001 Cairn Energy is seeking a partner with deep water experience to help with the development of the Annapurna gas field off the east coast of India. 29-Aug-2001 Centrica has bought long-term operating leases on two power stations in Peterborough and King's Lynn from TXU Europe for £174m, in order to boost its electricity generating capacity. 27-Aug-2001 Wellships Group is planning to create up to 100 jobs in Aberdeen over the next two years, having just ordered a new offshore oil and gas well overhaul and repair ship from a Dutch shipyard. 24-Aug-2001 Ofgem, the energy regulator, is looking to reverse the decline in the number of rural households being connected to the gas network by changing the rules on the funding of new pipelines. 22-Aug-2001 Alstom has won contracts worth £518m for the construction of three gas power plants in Malaysia, Bahrain and Australia. 22-Aug-2001 TotalFinaElf is to sell two gas pipeline businesses to the Star Capital private equity group for £100m, which will involve the transfer of 103 staff and the creation of a new company called Inexus. 20-Aug-2001 Soco has sold its 50% stake in the Permtex oil exploration project in Russia's Volga-Urals basin to Lukoil for £35m, and the proceeds will be invested in North Africa and the Middle East. 20-Aug-2001 International Power is to invest about £56m in a new power and desalination plant in Abu Dhabi, in partnership with CMS Energy and the Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority. 16-Aug-2001 TXU is to consolidate its Eastern Energy and Norweb Energi operations under the new name of TXU Energi, in a £10m rebranding exercise that will create a new national identity for the group. 16-Aug-2001 EnergieKontor is planning to build an offshore windfarm 10km off the coast of Southport, while SeaScape Energy is planning to set up 30 turbines 6km off Blundellsands on Merseyside. 15-Aug-2001 Allerdale Borough Council is considering plans from Pechiney of France for the construction of a 20-metre high wind turbine to power its Lillyhall factory. 15-Aug-2001 BP is expected to start work on the £1.8bn In Salah gas development in Algeria soon, having agreed a key gas sales contract with Sonatrach. 13-Aug-2001 Shell has announced plans to build a floating liquefied natural gas plant, in order to speed up the development of oil and gas fields between Australia and East Timor. 10-Aug-2001 Innogy is to swap its Yorkshire electricity distribution business for the supply operations of Northern Electric, which will expand its customer numbers from 5.5m to 7m. 07-Aug-2001 United Utilities is considering plans to build wind farms and grow green energy crops in Cumbria, in an attempt to find alternative uses for former sheep grazing land. 06-Aug-2001 Scottish Power is forming a joint venture with Alfred McAlpine to provide household gas and electricity connections, which will involve about 500 staff and McAlpine's nationwide network of depots operated by Kennedy Utility Management. 06-Aug-2001 Ramco Energy has started drilling at the Seven Heads gas prospect off Ireland, which is expected to become a £125m commercial development. 06-Aug-2001 Shell is seeking acquisition targets to boost gas volumes, and would consider swapping parts of its oil portfolio for gas assets. 03-Aug-2001 NPower is forming an alliance with Greenpeace to build the UK's first offshore wind farm five miles off Rhyl, and the £60m project will be built by National Wind Power. 02-Aug-2001 British Nuclear Fuels has received clearance from the Health & Safety Executive to reopen the Wylfa nuclear power station in north Wales. 02-Aug-2001 BP is investing £120m in the development of 80 eco-friendly BP Connect convenience store and filling station sites between Scotland's Central Belt and Aberdeen. 01-Aug-2001 British Energy has announced plans to invest £70m at Eggborough Power Station to reduce air pollution emissions, and the three-year contract has been awarded to FLS Miljo of Denmark. 01-Aug-2001 Mayflower is planning to expand its windfarm engineering operations following the development of a new system to install and maintain offshore turbines. 01-Aug-2001 Bouygues Offshore has announced plans to close the oil and gas fabrication yard at Clydebank and sell the site for redevelopment. 01-Aug-2001 Scottish Power has announced plans to build a £150m windfarm at Whitelee Forest near Glasgow by 2003, which will involve the construction of 140 turbines. 01-Aug-2001 Shell is planning to start work on the £200m Goldeneye gas field development in the Outer Moray Firth this winter, which is expected to create hundreds of local onshore civil engineering construction jobs. 27-Jul-2001 Shell is linking up with Westcoast Energy and Ballard Power Systems of Canada to form a private capital fund to invest in hydrogen fuel cell companies. 26-Jul-2001 TXU Europe Power is set to award a £30m contract to one of four construction companies for the development of a new six-storey headquarters in Ipswich. 26-Jul-2001 International Power has raised £372m from the sale of its 25% stake in Union Fenosa Generacion of Spain, and the proceeds will be used to develop new capacity in southern Europe. 26-Jul-2001 The Scottish Executive and Highlands & Islands Enterprise are to provide £0.4m for a full-scale site survey into the development of a marine energy test centre in Stromness. 24-Jul-2001 Chevron has announced plans to increase the output from its North Sea Alba oil field by investing £141m in the development of a major extension known as Alba Extreme South. 20-Jul-2001 Scottish & Southern Energy is expected to spend £250m refurbishing 30 hydroelectric power stations, as a result of government plans to include hydroelectric in its renewable energy programme. 20-Jul-2001 Innogy is planning to reorganise the electricity supply business of Yorkshire Power, which will involve the loss or relocation of up to 300 jobs at Scarcroft in Leeds. 12-Jul-2001 Dana Petroleum has acquired a 26% stake in the Goosander field in the North Sea from Burlington Resources for an initial £2.8m. 12-Jul-2001 International Energy Group is to sell its property portfolio to ComProp for £47m, in order to reduce debt and fund the expansion of its energy business in the Channel Islands and Portugal. 12-Jul-2001 Intersolar is considering plans for a flotation to fund the threefold increase in production of solar roofing tiles, and discussions are taking place with house builders about using the tiles in new homes. 11-Jul-2001 Abbot Group has won a £36m onshore drilling contract from TotalFinaElf for the Dorood field development in Iran. 10-Jul-2001 Northern Electric is said to have been put up for sale by US parent company Mid-American Energy Holdings. 09-Jul-2001 Entergy has sold the 1,200MW gas-fired Saltend power station near Hull to Calpine Corporation of the US for £560m. 06-Jul-2001 Windforce has announced plans to develop more than 600MW of wind power in Sweden, and is also seeking opportunities in France, Greece, Latvia and North America. 05-Jul-2001 Scottish Borders Council has approved plans from Renewable Energy Systems for the development of a 22-turbine windfarm at Black Hill, between Longformacus and Duns. 04-Jul-2001 Centrica is to acquire a 50% stake in Luminus, a newly-formed energy supply business in Belgium, for £52m. 02-Jul-2001 The Broads Authority in East Anglia is planning to develop an energy plant fuelled by waste vegetation, which would involve the creation of a bio-fuel processor that uses scrub cut from the Broads fens. 29-Jun-2001 Cairn Energy has announced a gas discovery off the east coast of India which will double its reserve base. 27-Jun-2001 Onyx Hampshire is increasing the amount of gas recovered from landfill sites to turn into electricity for the National Grid, as part of a £3.5m investment that will include a new plant at Bramshill in Hampshire. 25-Jun-2001 Enterprise Oil is buying a portfolio of North Sea assets, including stakes in 11 producing fields, from Petrobras of Brazil for £114m. 25-Jun-2001 BP is to provide £10m of funding to the Scottish Forest Alliance, which has announced plans to plant five new forests in Scotland over the next 10 years. 22-Jun-2001 Conoco is planning to invest about £600m in the UK sector of the North Sea over the next two years, securing hundreds of jobs in Aberdeen and Great Yarmouth. 21-Jun-2001 Tullow Oil has completed the second stage of the purchase of the Thames-Hewett package of gas assets and related infrastructure from BP, including the producing Gawain field and exploration licences that contain six undeveloped discoveries. 20-Jun-2001 UK Coal is planning to reopen a disused rail line to carry coal from the new Codnor Park opencast mine in Derbyshire to power stations. 20-Jun-2001 Stoke-on-Trent City Council is considering plans from Cogen and Edinburgh Oil & Gas to extract methane gas from the coal seams beneath the former Hem Heath colliery. 19-Jun-2001 Scottish Power is to sell 99 of its 156 electrical stores to Powerhouse and close the rest, in order to focus on energy generation and supply. 19-Jun-2001 Vestas of Denmark has confirmed plans to build a £10m wind turbine manufacturing plant at Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre with the creation of about 100 jobs, and funding will be provided by Highlands & Islands Enterprise. 19-Jun-2001 Shell is planning to invest up to £700m in new energy projects over the next five years, in order to develop viable wind and solar generation operations. 15-Jun-2001 Aberdeenshire Council is to consider plans from Renewable Energy Systems for a £15m windfarm project at the Glens of Foudland, near Huntly. 14-Jun-2001 International Power is buying the Rugeley coal-fired power station in Staffordshire from TXU for £200m. 12-Jun-2001 Save Group, the independent petrol retailer with 400 sites, has received a takeover approach from the Libyan National Oil Corporation. 12-Jun-2001 Conoco is considering plans to sell about 200 company-owned filling stations in the UK, but will retain the 380 Jet stations operated under franchise. 11-Jun-2001 BG has made a "significant oil discovery" near the Blake field in the North Sea, on behalf of a consortium led by PanCanadian Petroleum. 08-Jun-2001 Celtic Energy is forming a joint venture with Cofton, the Birmingham-based property developer, for the commercial development of its brownfield sites across South Wales. 07-Jun-2001 Morrisons is looking into the possibility of using wind turbines to provide power at its supermarkets. 06-Jun-2001 Scottish Enterprise is looking into the potential of the Pentland Firth, between Orkney and the mainland, as a possible site for 5,000 underwater turbines to harness wave power. 05-Jun-2001 Scottish & Southern Energy has announced plans to build an 11 MW windfarm at Tangy, near Campbeltown, and has started work on a 10 MW power station fired by coalmine methane near Leeds. 01-Jun-2001 I&H Brown is planning to set up two new opencast mines in Fife with the creation of 50 jobs, and the sites are at Begg Farm near Cluny and Woodbank Farm near Kennoway. 01-Jun-2001 BP is expected to announce plans this summer for the £600m development of the Clair oilfield west of Shetland, and UK shipyards will have to compete with US companies for a £200m oil platform contract. 29-May-2001 AEA Technology is planning to close a nuclear handling unit at Harwell over the next three years, with the loss of 130 jobs. 25-May-2001 Energis is seeking permission to build three office blocks on the site of the former Metal Box building in Reading, in order to accommodate more than 2,000 staff. 25-May-2001 Moray Council is to consider plans from Natural Power of Norway for the development of 27 wind turbines near Knockando and 28 on Cairn Uish, which would involve local companies being invited to tender for up to £5m of site contracts. 23-May-2001 Blue Circle Cement is seeking permission from the Environment Agency to use sanitised sewage pellets as a replacement for coal at its Cauldon Low works in Ashbourne. 22-May-2001 National Grid is forming a joint venture with Statnett to build a 450-mile sub-sea electricity interconnector between the UK and Norway by 2005, at a cost of up to £500m. 21-May-2001 BP, Shell, Exxon and Phillips Petroleum are to invest $15bn in the Core Venture One gas exploration and development project in Saudi Arabia. 21-May-2001 BG has agreed a 22-year contract with CMS Energy to take over the import capacity at the Lake Charles liquefied natural gas terminal in Louisiana, which will provide a new outlet for its gas fields in Egypt and Trinidad and Tobago. 18-May-2001 Scottish Power, British Energy, BP and other UK energy groups are expected to benefit from US government plans for a major expansion of the power sector, which will include new nuclear plants and the exploitation of Alaskan oil reserves. 18-May-2001 RJB Mining is to change its name to UK Coal and is looking to obtain additional aid from the government's State Coal Aid scheme. 16-May-2001 Hartlepool Borough Council is to consider plans from Amec Border Wind for the development of a £3.5m windfarm in Elwick, which would include three turbines each producing 2MW of electricity. 16-May-2001 BP is to invest £208m on a new development west of Shetland, including five infill wells and a new two-well subsea scheme known as East Foinaven. 15-May-2001 British Energy has announced plans to shed 400 jobs in its UK nuclear generating business over the next four years. 15-May-2001 Energy Power Resources has awarded a £24m contract to FLS Miljo of Denmark to build a 42MW biomass power station in Corby. 10-May-2001 The government has announced a £25m grant for four coal mines, including £18m for the Longannet Deep Mine in Scotland, £1m for Blenkinsopp Colliery in Northumbria, £4m for Hatfield Colliery near Doncaster and £2m for Betws Colliery in Wales. 09-May-2001 The University of Ulster is to conduct a £2.5m environmental research programme on new and renewable forms of energy, as part of a new consortium of universities working on the Integration of New and Renewable Energy in Buildings. 08-May-2001 Shell is working on plans for the development of a cluster of Northern North Sea oil and gas fields, which will be linked by pipeline to the Brent field, at an estimated cost of £260m. 04-May-2001 BP, Shell and other companies have been approached by the government about the possibility of building a large photovoltaic cell manufacturing plant in the UK, in order to encourage the uptake of solar energy. 03-May-2001 Marathon Oil has won approval to drill a second gas exploration well off the Pembrokeshire coast. 02-May-2001 Derby City Council is to consider plans from Brightstar Environmental Partnership for a £10m energy and recycling centre at the former Eagle Tannery in Sinfin Lane, which would convert household rubbish into energy for the national grid. 01-May-2001 Scottish Power is in discussions to acquire Portland General, the Oregon-based electricity utility, from Enron. 01-May-2001 The International Petroleum Exchange is to be acquired by the Intercontinental Exchange of the US for up to £92m. 01-May-2001 PowerGen has announced plans for the development of a £30m combined heat and power facility at the North Mersey Goods Yard, to provide electricity and steam for the Mersey Docks & Harbour Company and Cargill. 30-Apr-2001 Wavegen has raised £5m from a consortium of investors to fund the development of offshore wave generation systems. 24-Apr-2001 Transco is planning to upgrade its nationwide gas mains network over the next four years, at a cost of up to £12bn. 19-Apr-2001 Talisman Energy has announced a new oil discovery at the Lucy Field in the North Sea, and development plans will be finalised later this year. 19-Apr-2001 PowerGen has sold its power station and mining operations in Germany and Hungary to NRG Energy of the US for £130m, in order to reduce debt and focus on the UK and US markets. 18-Apr-2001 Edison Mission Energy is looking to sell the Fiddler's Ferry power station in Cheshire and Ferrybridge in Yorkshire. 18-Apr-2001 International Energy Group is planning to sell or spin-off its £40m property portfolio in order to fund the expansion of its gas distribution business into the Isle of Man and Portugal. 17-Apr-2001 SLP Engineering is considering plans to set up a wind turbine fabrication and maintenance centre in Lowestoft, and has also announced a new contract to build a mini platform for BP's £30m Hoton gas field project in the North Sea. 17-Apr-2001 Shell is to invest $5.8bn in its Malaysian oil and gas operations over the next five years, including upstream operations, refining, IT and financial support. 12-Apr-2001 Celtic Energy is to receive a £3m government aid package to protect jobs at its coal mines, while a further £5m will go to other mining groups around the country. 12-Apr-2001 BG Group has announced plans for a £630m liquefied natural gas project in Egypt in partnership with Edison and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, including the construction of a new plant at Idku. 10-Apr-2001 BP Energy has won government permission to build a 70MW gas-fired combined heat and power station at the Jaguar car plant in Halewood, which will create 250 construction jobs. 06-Apr-2001 NPower is to close the recently-acquired York Gas office at Lendal Bridge in York with the loss of up to 88 jobs, and is seeking alternative premises. 06-Apr-2001 Crown Estate has announced options to build 18 offshore wind farms at a cost of more than £1bn, and sites include the Wash, the Gower peninsula, the Medway estuary, the Thames estuary and Merseyside. 05-Apr-2001 PowerGen is looking to sell its combined heat and power business, which includes 21 plants and employs 230 people, in order to focus on its other generation and retail energy operations. 05-Apr-2001 Transco is planning to upgrade a gas compressor station in Kings Lynn at a cost of £25m, and bids have been submitted by a number of contractors. 05-Apr-2001 UK Atomic Energy Authority and ProLogis Developments have announced plans to add 120,000 sq ft of office space at the Harwell Business Centre in Oxfordshire over the next three years, which will create up to 1,000 jobs. 03-Apr-2001 Innogy has confirmed plans to float its Regenesys electricity storage business, which is expected to be valued at about £1bn later this year. 03-Apr-2001 London Electricity and Eastern Energy are considering plans to float their 24seven joint venture, which manages local electricity networks in London and East Anglia. 03-Apr-2001 Ramco Energy is to withdraw from its main onshore oilfield in Azerbaijan in order to focus on drilling in Ireland, Romania and Georgia. 30-Mar-2001 Renewable Energy Systems has won a £180m contract with FPL Energy of California to build the world's second largest windfarm in Texas. 28-Mar-2001 Shell and RWE are to merge their downstream oil operations in Germany to create a combined group with 24% of the country's petrol retailing market. 28-Mar-2001 Scottish Power has agreed a £78m electricity and gas supply deal that will result in local authorities in the west of Scotland becoming the largest purchasers of green energy in the UK. 27-Mar-2001 Seeboard, the south-east England electricity supplier, has been put up for sale by parent company American Electric Power. 27-Mar-2001 TotalFinaElf is to go ahead with the £145m Otter oilfield development in the northern North Sea, which will create work for Coflexip Stena Offshore in Aberdeen and FMC Kongsberg Subsea in Dunfermline. 26-Mar-2001 Black Rock Oil & Gas of Australia is raising up to £1m in a share placing to fund an oil drilling programme in Hampshire. 26-Mar-2001 Paladin Resources is looking to spend up to £50m on acquisitions, and aims to double oil production and reserves over the next three years. 23-Mar-2001 International Power is planning to build up to nine power stations in Italy in partnership with turbine manufacturer Ansaldo Energia. 22-Mar-2001 Coolkeeragh Power has lodged a formal planning application to build a 400 MW combined cycle gas turbine power plant on the site of the existing oil-fired station at Coolkeeragh in Northern Ireland. 21-Mar-2001 BP has been chosen as preferred bidder to build China's first liquefied natural gas plant, which could lead to an investment of £120m in a gas import terminal near Shenzhen and 300 km of pipeline. 21-Mar-2001 Tulloch has won a contract from the Kazakhstan government to supply 500 skilled workers for a number of oil projects in the Caspian Sea, through its ABC Corries manpower arm. 21-Mar-2001 Enterprise Oil is transferring its corporate headquarters from London to its Aberdeen office, and has also announced plans to spend up to £30m on North Sea exploration this year. 19-Mar-2001 Sainsbury is to set up a commercial wind turbine at its distribution depot in East Kilbride, as part of a policy to use more renewable energy. 19-Mar-2001 Alkane Energy has announced plans to invest £120m over the next five years to produce methane gas for power generation from abandoned coal mines. 16-Mar-2001 British Energy is drawing up plans to build a new nuclear power plant at Hunterston in Ayrshire over the next ten years. 15-Mar-2001 Amec is to create about 1,000 jobs at yards in Wallsend and Hartlepool having won a £300m contract from Shell to build equipment for an oil platform destined for Nigeria. 15-Mar-2001 Shell has announced plans to invest £2bn in the development of natural gas supplies in India, which will involve pipelines, gas-fired power projects and distribution for industrial and domestic use. 15-Mar-2001 RJB Mining has won a five year contract to supply up to 5m tonnes of coal to British Energy's Eggborough power station. 14-Mar-2001 Abbot Group is to invest £40m in its renewable energy joint venture with PowerGen this year, and hopes to win permission to build its first major offshore wind farm at Scroby Sands in Norfolk. 14-Mar-2001 Talisman Energy is planning to bring four new North Sea oilfields into production this year, and has just completed a new £20m headquarters in Aberdeen. 09-Mar-2001 Shell has launched a £1.5bn takeover bid for Barrett Resources, the US natural gas exploration and production group. 08-Mar-2001 Cairn Energy is to increase capital expenditure to £110m this year, and will continue to focus on oil and gas exploration in India. 07-Mar-2001 The government has pledged to invest £100m in renewable energy over the next three years. 07-Mar-2001 British Energy is considering the possibility of replacing its existing generating capacity with nuclear, rather than gas-fired, plant, following an increase in wholesale gas prices. 06-Mar-2001 Halliburton Brown & Root, the energy services group, is to relocate 500 staff from Leatherhead to the South Point office building in Sutton over the next few months. 06-Mar-2001 Esso is to set up a call centre at Salford Quays in Manchester to provide support to retail and industrial customers throughout Europe, with the creation of 300 jobs. 02-Mar-2001 BG Group is selling a 24.5% stake in Phoenix Natural Gas of Northern Ireland to East Surrey Holdings for £50m. 01-Mar-2001 British Gas Trading is expanding its Business Customers Directorate in Leicester, with the creation of 30 new jobs. 28-Feb-2001 Windjen Power has won permission to build a £3m windfarm near Carmarthen, comprising three wind turbines that will supply enough electricity for 2,500 local homes. 27-Feb-2001 Dales Group is launching a new division called Dales Renewable Energy Services to provide fabrication and other engineering services for wind, wave, tidal and biomass power projects. 27-Feb-2001 Transco has awarded a contract to Lawrence of Bath to build a £7m 20km pipeline between Pontyates and Bancyfelin to boost gas supplies to West Wales, and work will start in April. 27-Feb-2001 PowerGen is setting up a new business called European Generation Asset Management to operate power stations in continental Europe, and is also forming a joint venture with Andersen Consulting to provide energy advice to large companies. 27-Feb-2001 Enterprise Oil is to go ahead with the £400m development of the Corrib offshore gas field, which is 50 miles west of Erris Head in Ireland. 26-Feb-2001 Dana Petroleum has announced a large gas discovery off the coast of Java, worth an estimated £450m. 26-Feb-2001 Centrica is considering plans to invest about £1bn on acquisitions and organic growth in North America, where it aims to have 10m gas and electricity customers by 2003. 23-Feb-2001 BHP Petroleum is seeking government permission to extend its gas field in Liverpool Bay and pipe the fuel ashore at Point of Ayr in North Wales for use in the Connah's Quay power station. 22-Feb-2001 Vestas of Denmark is planning to build a wind turbine factory at the former military airfield at Machrihanish in Kintyre, with the creation of 90 jobs. 20-Feb-2001 British Energy has revealed plans for the multi-million pound redevelopment of its 32-acre site at Barnwood in Gloucester, in order to relocate to a new energy-efficient operational support centre with 1,000 staff at Barnett Way. 19-Feb-2001 British Energy is forming a joint venture with the Renewable Energy Systems subsidiary of Sir Robert McAlpine to build offshore wind farms, and Crown Estate is due to award wind farm sites in July. 16-Feb-2001 The government has won European approval to provide £60m of aid to six coal mines, including £23m for Selby, £15m for Harworth, £14m for Maltby, £4m for Hatfield, £3m for Rossington and £0.5m for Blenkinsopp. 14-Feb-2001 Scottish Power has started testing wind speeds on the Ardeer Peninsula in Ayrshire with a view to setting up a 33-turbine wind farm, although a number of other sites are also being considered for the project. 13-Feb-2001 Shell has sold 256 Brazilian petrol stations and three distribution centres to Agip of Italy for undisclosed terms. 12-Feb-2001 Ramco Energy is to close its head office in Dorking in order to concentrate all decision-making in Aberdeen. 05-Feb-2001 The UK Atomic Energy Authority is to recruit a further 200 workers at Dounreay this year, to cope with a rise in the number of new decommissioning projects. 05-Feb-2001 TXU Europe is selling the North Sea assets of its upstream gas business to Consort Resources for £140m. 05-Feb-2001 BP is to sell its 9.5% stake in the Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan to TotalElfFina for £275m. 05-Feb-2001 Scottish Power is to stop selling telecoms and financial services in order to focus on electricity, gas and water, which will involve pulling out of joint ventures with Thus and Royal Bank of Scotland. 02-Feb-2001 Farm Energy Centre, the West Midlands-based supplier of energy efficiency advice to public utilities and the agricultural sector, has undergone a management buy-out. 30-Jan-2001 South Norfolk Council is to consider plans from Next Generation for the construction of two 100-metre wind turbines at Stockton. 29-Jan-2001 Servista.com, the online energy and telecoms provider, has secured £7m of funding from a consortium led by TXU Europe, and TXU will become the company's sole supplier of gas and electricity to UK customers. 29-Jan-2001 Scottish Coal has announced plans to create a further 130 jobs at the Longannet deep coal mine. 26-Jan-2001 Talisman Energy is planning to invest up to £30m rebuilding its North Sea pipeline linking the Beatrice oilfield with the Nigg terminal on the Cromarty Firth, as part of an expansion that will create 1,600 jobs. 22-Jan-2001 BP Amoco is considering plans to shed about 3,000 of its 28,000 worldwide petrol stations over the next three years, and the remaining sites will be redeveloped to offer more goods and services. 22-Jan-2001 Weatherford Completion Systems is to create 65 jobs at its oil-industry manufacturing sites in Arbroath and Aberdeen over the next six months, as part of a £8m capital investment programme. 19-Jan-2001 PowerGen is in discussions with a number of potential buyers, including Eon of Germany. 18-Jan-2001 Innogy is planning to sell Fawley power station near Southampton to Independent Power UK for £42m. 18-Jan-2001 BP is linking up with the Gas Authority of India and Indian Oil to build a new plant to produce dimethyl ether, which is an alternative fuel for power stations. 16-Jan-2001 Cornwall County Council is to consider plans from Baseresult to burn up to 75,000 tonnes of domestic rubbish a year at the South Crofty mine, producing electricity for mining operations and for sale to the national grid. 15-Jan-2001 Octagon Energy is planning to develop mini power stations at abandoned mine sites across Yorkshire, and has just opened a new £2.5m plant at the former Hickleton Colliery to generate electricity from methane seeping from the ground. 15-Jan-2001 RJB Mining is to submit a revised planning application to extract 580,000 tonnes of coal and 180,000 tonnes of fireclay from an opencast site at Brusselton near Darlington. 15-Jan-2001 TotalFinaElf has awarded a £3m contract to Morrison for the refurbishment of its Aberdeen office. 12-Jan-2001 Shell is planning to build 500 petrol stations in China in partnership with Sinopec by 2004, at a cost of £100m. 11-Jan-2001 MacGregor Energy Services of Invergordon is to recruit a further 300 engineers, welders and other workers, having secured a number of offshore drilling rig refit contracts. 10-Jan-2001 Tendring District Council has confirmed that Enron is considering the possibility of reviving plans to build one of the world's largest offshore wind farms at Clacton, at a cost of up to £35m. 10-Jan-2001 Fife Council is to consider plans from the Murray Group of Edinburgh for the development of an opencast coal site in Kirkcaldy, which would create 34 jobs. 05-Jan-2001 Allerdale Borough Council is to consider plans from National Wind Power to build eight turbines at Wharrels Hill, Bothel. 05-Jan-2001 RJB Mining is considering plans to revive the Thorne colliery near Doncaster with the creation of hundreds of jobs, and has also identified 450m tonnes of coal reserves at Witham on the Nottinghamshire border. 02-Jan-2001
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