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Scottish Borders Council is considering plans from Brogan Oils for the development of a fuel distribution storage base in Coldstream. 31-Dec-2002 Northern Petroleum has acquired a 45% stake in the Ayoluengo oilfield in Spain. 30-Dec-2002 Innogy has won government approval to build an offshore windfarm at Rhyl Flats in north Wales, including 30 turbines. 30-Dec-2002 Ramco Energy is to sell four non-core overseas subsidiaries to Falcon Oil & Gas, including interests in exploration licenses in central and eastern Europe. 23-Dec-2002 Neath Port Talbot Council is considering plans from Valleys Energy for the development of a £375m 460MW power station near Onllwyn, which would burn hydrogen produced from coal and create 120 jobs. 19-Dec-2002 ConocoPhillips is looking to sell part of the Bacton gas terminal and its associated gas field in North Norfolk, which employ 88 staff, following a strategic review of its worldwide assets. 19-Dec-2002 Centrica is to acquire the remaining 60% stake in the North Sea's Rose Field from BG Group, in return for £7.3m and a 1.5% stake in the Armada Field. 18-Dec-2002 North Lanarkshire Council has approved plans from LAW Mining to operate an opencast coal mine at Fauldhouse, which will involve the extraction of 570,000 tonnes of coal and the creation of 50 jobs. 17-Dec-2002 Subsea 7 is to shed at least 30 of the 700 jobs at its oil services business in Aberdeen. 16-Dec-2002 UK Coal has agreed a new business plan for the Harworth colliery in Nottinghamshire, securing the future of almost 500 jobs for the next five years. 16-Dec-2002 The Department of Trade & Industry has indicated that untapped oil reserves in the North Sea could be as high as 42bn barrels, raising the prospect of a resurgence in activity. 16-Dec-2002 First Hydro is planning to shed up to 40 jobs at the Dinorwig and Ffestiniog hydroelectric power stations in Gwynedd over the next two years. 13-Dec-2002 Lincolnshire County Council is considering plans from Star Energy for the development of a wind farm with 11 turbines near Lincoln. 12-Dec-2002 BP has awarded a £250m contract to Bond Offshore Helicopters to transport offshore workers in the North Sea, casting doubt over the future of 100 jobs at existing supplier CHC Scotia. 11-Dec-2002 Hampshire County Council is to consider plans from Pentex Oil to drill for oil over a two-year period at Ovington near Winchester. 10-Dec-2002 Cairn Energy is to overhaul its corporate structure in order to separate its oil and gas operating assets from the holding company. 10-Dec-2002 Statoil has acquired the development rights to build an underground gas storage facility at Aldbrough near Hull. 09-Dec-2002 Redcar Council is to consider plans from Sterling Resources to drill for gas in a field at the Kirkleatham Business Park in Redcar. 06-Dec-2002 UK Atomic Energy Authority is planning to build a £100m store for intermediate-level radioactive waste arising from the decommissioning of the Dounreay nuclear plant, with work starting in 2005. 05-Dec-2002 Northumberland County Council has approved plans from Roc Oil of Australia to explore for oil and gas at Bingfield near Corbridge. 04-Dec-2002 Argent Energy has announced plans to build a £10m biodiesel production facility at Newarthill in Lanarkshire by early 2004, providing an outlet for excess tallow from abattoirs. 04-Dec-2002 Highland Council has approved plans from Amec to build a £30m 27-turbine onshore wind farm in Skye. 04-Dec-2002 Renewable Energy Systems and B9 Energy are to start work this month on the development of a 20-turbine wind farm at Altahullion in County Londonderry. 28-Nov-2002 Transco is to announce plans for a £200m investment in new gas pipelines in March, including a liquid nitrogen pipeline between Milford Haven and Aberdulais, with work starting in 2005. 28-Nov-2002 Fenland District Council is to consider plans from Wind Prospect for the construction of eight wind turbines at Glass Moor Fen, near Whittlesey. 26-Nov-2002 The Department of Trade & Industry has identified three priority areas for the development of offshore wind farms - the Wash in East Anglia, the Thames estuary and the coastlines of Lancashire and Cumbria. 25-Nov-2002 Ecotricity is planning to build the world's tallest wind turbine at an unspecified site in East Anglia. 21-Nov-2002 Asco has won a £35m logistics contract from Shell UK Exploration & Production to supply services to offshore platforms from Aberdeen, and a number of staff will transfer from existing supplier Seaforth Maritime. 19-Nov-2002 BG Group has won approval to build a £211m liquefied natural gas terminal at Brindisi in Italy, in order to import gas from Egypt. 19-Nov-2002 East of England Development Agency is in talks with Global Commodities UK about plans to set up a new 41,000 sq ft facility in Lowestoft to produce environmentally-friendly diesel, with the creation of 30 jobs. 18-Nov-2002 British Energy is in discussions to sell its Canadian nuclear power operations to a joint venture between Cameco, TransCanada Pipelines and Borealis Capital. 18-Nov-2002 The Department of Trade & Industry is to publish plans for the development of a major renewable energy industry in Scotland, with cables connecting wind farms and hydroelectric dams in northern Scotland to cities across the country. 18-Nov-2002 Auiron Energy of Australia is about to submit plans for the development of a £500m open-cast lignite mine and power station in north Antrim, with the creation of 300 jobs. 13-Nov-2002 National Grid has announced plans to relocate its headquarters and about 600 staff from Coventry to the Warwick Technology Park next summer. 12-Nov-2002 Talisman Energy has announced a new oil discovery near the Buchan Field in the central North Sea. 04-Nov-2002 BP is planning to shed up to 5,000 jobs, in order to eliminate management duplication between former BP, Amoco and Arco staff. 04-Nov-2002 PowerGen Renewables has announced proposals for the development of an offshore wind farm at Portland Harbour in Weymouth. 01-Nov-2002 BP has warned 300 staff and 250 contractors that cost reductions are needed at the Sullom Voe oil and gas terminal in Shetland, which is expected to lead to job losses and a cut in processing capacity. 31-Oct-2002 Centrica is said to be considering plans to sell its liquefied petroleum gas business, which delivers gas to remote rural areas and employs about 400 staff. 31-Oct-2002 Weatherford International is planning to shed about 200 jobs in its Aberdeen-based oil services business. 30-Oct-2002 Cambrian Engineering is to set up a £3m factory to manufacture wind turbine towers at the Arnish fabrication yard in Stornoway, with the creation of 65 jobs. 29-Oct-2002 Coolkeeragh ESB has awarded a £110m contract to a consortium comprising General Electric of the US and Austria's VA Tech to build a 400MW gas-fired power station near Londonderry. 28-Oct-2002 Mayflower Energy has received a £1.5m grant from One NorthEast to establish an administrative headquarters for its offshore windfarm business in the Tees Valley, which could lead to the creation of 140 jobs. 23-Oct-2002 Tuscan Energy and Acorn North Sea have won government approval for a £55m project to reopen the former Argyll oilfield in the North Sea, with the creation of 120 jobs. 22-Oct-2002 Abbot Group has agreed to sell its 50% stake in wind farm developer PowerGen Renewables to PowerGen UK for £57m. 21-Oct-2002 Scottish Borders Council is to consider plans from Amec Wind Energy for the development of a wind farm with 15 turbines at Innerleithen. 17-Oct-2002 Centrica Business Services has submitted plans to build a new office at Grove Park in Leicester, which would involve the creation of up to 200 new jobs and the relocation of staff from existing sites. 15-Oct-2002 The East Midlands Development Agency is to help fund a £0.4m project to generate power at the former Markham colliery site in Derbyshire, using a 148-acre willow tree plantation as fuel. 11-Oct-2002 Diamond Drilling is considering plans to shed up to 65 jobs in Aberdeen, following a fall in demand for its offshore drilling services. 11-Oct-2002 PowerGen is to mothball 1,800 MW of power station capacity because of low electricity prices, including the Isle of Grain oil-fired plant and the Killingholme gas-fired plant. 10-Oct-2002 British Gas is to recruit a further 2,000 engineers to cope with rising sales of household services, and the extra jobs are in addition to the 3,000 new jobs announced earlier this year. 09-Oct-2002 TXU Europe is planning to shed about 200 jobs in its energy business, with the Ipswich headquarters being hardest hit, and assets worth up to £250m will be sold off. 07-Oct-2002 Vestas is to create at least 40 new jobs at its wind turbine factory in Machrihanish, near Campbeltown, after the government announced £20m funding for a National Wind Power project in Wales and a PowerGen project in Norfolk. 03-Oct-2002 Interconnector UK is to double the capacity of its main gas pipeline between Norfolk and Belgium by 2005, at a cost of £75m. 02-Oct-2002 British Energy is said to be considering plans to close its headquarters in East Kilbride, which employs 500 people, and transfer the work to its engineering support centre at Barnwood near Cheltenham. 01-Oct-2002 Scottish & Southern Energy is considering plans to spend £200m rebuilding its main electricity link between the Highlands and the central belt. 27-Sep-2002 North Warwickshire Borough Council is to consider plans from De Mulder & Sons for the development of an integrated renewable energy and recycling plant at its meat by-products site in Hartshill. 26-Sep-2002 UK Coal is said to be considering plans to close the Maltby and Harworth collieries near Doncaster with the loss of up to 1,000 jobs. 19-Sep-2002 Fusion Oil & Gas is to raise £2m in a share placing to fund further drilling in west Africa. 18-Sep-2002 Pembrokeshire County Council is to consider plans from Petroplus for the development of a liquefied natural gas storage depot in Milford Haven, but the project would depend upon Transco extending the main gas pipeline from Swansea. 17-Sep-2002 Premier Oil has announced a £430m corporate restructuring programme that will involve the disposal of operations in Burma and Indonesia to leading shareholders Petronas and Amerada Hess. 17-Sep-2002 Ecotricity has submitted plans to build a wind farm with six turbines at Sedgeford in West Norfolk. 16-Sep-2002 Aquila is said to be in talks with at least six companies about the sale of Midlands Electricity. 16-Sep-2002 Alkane Energy, the developer of methane gas plants at abandoned coal mines, has cut its opening programme to five sites a year following the fall in electricity prices. 13-Sep-2002 Amec has won a £48m contract from Transco to build a gas compression facility at Bathgate, near Edinburgh. 12-Sep-2002 Aberdeen City Council is considering plans from Shanks Waste Services for the installation of two generators and a gas flare tower at the Tarbothill landfill site, in order to generate electricity from methane. 10-Sep-2002 ExxonMobil is considering plans to set up a liquefied natural gas terminal at the former Esso refinery on the Milford Haven waterway, although a number of other sites are also being looked at. 09-Sep-2002 Mirant of the US has sold its 49% stake in Western Power Distribution, the owner of the SWEB and Swalec electricity networks, to PPL for £150m. 09-Sep-2002 British Energy, the nuclear power generator, has warned that it may be facing insolvency unless financial assistance is received soon. 06-Sep-2002 Transocean is planning to shed up to 200 jobs at its oil drilling business in Aberdeen, following the loss of three offshore contracts. 05-Sep-2002 Alkane Energy is to install methane gas extraction equipment at the recently-closed Prince of Wales colliery in Yorkshire, in order to fuel a distributed electricity generation plant. 04-Sep-2002 John Wood Group is seeking acquisitions to expand its oil and gas services business in Brazil, West Africa and the Asia-Pacific. 04-Sep-2002 Texaco is planning to open 20 liquid petroleum gas service stations for cars by the end of the year, having just opened the first in Birmingham. 30-Aug-2002 Celtic Energy has submitted revised plans to extend opencast mining at East Pit in the upper Amman Valley, which would provide more than 130 jobs. 30-Aug-2002 Siemens Power Generation is to shed 400 jobs at its steam turbines factory in Newcastle-upon-Tyne over the next two years, due to a fall in worldwide demand for power plants. 29-Aug-2002 Cumbria County Council is considering plans from Warwick Energy for the development of 30 wind turbines off Walney Island, while Solway Offshore has lodged a bid for a 60-turbine wind farm off the Cumbrian coast. 29-Aug-2002 Paladin Resources is to acquire a 14.5% stake in the Ross oilfield in the North Sea from Kerr-McGee for £14m. 29-Aug-2002 Highlands & Islands Enterprise is seeking alternative uses for the Ardersier oil fabrication yard on the Moray Firth, following a decision by MacDermotts to close the site. 28-Aug-2002 The Scottish Executive has doubled its target for renewable energy generation to 40% of Scotland's power needs by 2020. 26-Aug-2002 The Coal Authority has awarded a £1.5m contract to Nuttall to refurbish the Morlase mine water treatment works in Llanelli. 22-Aug-2002 Entergy of the US is said to be looking to sell its recently-opened 800MW Damhead Creek power station in Kent, due to low electricity prices. 15-Aug-2002 Lattice is to seek permission to build a liquefied natural gas import terminal at the Isle of Grain in the Medway, and hopes the site will be operational by the end of 2004. 14-Aug-2002 British Nuclear Fuels has won a £230m contract to work on the development of four nuclear power plants in South Korea. 12-Aug-2002 London Electricity has won government approval for a £70m project to fit a flue gas desulphurisation plant at its Cottam coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire. 09-Aug-2002 Shell has announced plans to step up its cost reduction programme, and will shed about 2,000 jobs around the world this year. 02-Aug-2002 Innogy's National Wind Power division has won government approval to build 30 offshore wind turbines near Prestatyn. 01-Aug-2002 AEA Technology has produced a feasibility study on behalf of Greenpeace and TXU for the development of 15,000 wind generators off the coast of East Anglia, and the £30bn scheme could generate 25% of the country's electricity needs by 2020. 26-Jul-2002 The Teesside Power Station at Wilton and the Teesside Gas Processing Plant at Seal Sands are to be operated by PX, a new Stockton-based group of former Enron managers, securing the future of more than 200 jobs. 25-Jul-2002 Shell is in discussions with China National Offshore Oil Corporation about plans to invest £255m in two oil and gas fields off the coast of northern China. 24-Jul-2002 Paladin Resources has won two oil production licences in the UK's latest offshore licensing round, including blocks east of the Piper field and south west of the Britannia field. 24-Jul-2002 Cleveland Potash has secured government permission to build a gas-fired combined heat and power station at the Boulby Mine works in Saltburn. 22-Jul-2002 Vestas of Denmark is looking at the possibility of setting up a £50m factory in Ayrshire to make wind turbine blades, which could lead to the creation of up to 450 jobs. 19-Jul-2002 Redcar Council has approved plans from Amec and Corus for the development of a £30m wind farm with 18 turbines at the former Corus steelworks site at Redcar, and similar projects may be started on nine other Corus sites in the UK and Europe. 18-Jul-2002 UK Coal is planning to close the Selby coalmine complex near York in 2004, with the loss of about 2,000 jobs. 16-Jul-2002 Mayflower is set to win a £70m contract to install 30 wind turbines six miles off the coast of Anglesey for RWE of Germany, in partnership with Vestas Group of Denmark. 15-Jul-2002 International Power has submitted plans for a new flue gas desulphurisation plant to extend the life of Rugeley Power Station. 11-Jul-2002 BP is forming a joint venture with Rosneft to explore for oil in the Sakhalin V zone in eastern Russia. 11-Jul-2002 Sainsbury has appointed RWE Solutions UK to manage a £14m investment programme aimed at reducing energy consumption by 11% over two years, which will involve the modification of in-store refrigeration systems and new lighting. 08-Jul-2002 The University of Nottingham has announced plans to build a £10m eco-village on its Jubilee Campus, in order to test energy and buildings technology and attract tourists. 04-Jul-2002 Transco is said to be planning to build a 30km gas pipeline near Middlesbrough, and the £10m project is expected to be put out to tender in September. 04-Jul-2002 Intersolar is planning to raise £18m in a flotation on Aim next month, in order to fund a new £12m plant to manufacture solar cells. 01-Jul-2002 British Nuclear Fuels is to shed 270 of the 300 jobs at its Capenhurst plant in Wirral over the next four years, due to the completion of decommissioning work. 28-Jun-2002 Renewable Energy Systems is looking into the possibility of building a £200m wind farm off the north coast of Northern Ireland. 26-Jun-2002 British Nuclear Fuels has brought forward the closing date for the Calder Hall nuclear reactor in Cumbria to March 2003 and the Chapelcross reactor in Scotland to March 2005, due to the fall in electricity prices. 24-Jun-2002 EnCana of Canada has announced that the Buzzard discovery in the North Sea contains more than one billion barrels of oil, making it the UK's largest find for 25 years, and the £600m project could create up to 1,000 jobs. 21-Jun-2002 Aquila of the US is considering plans to close its energy trading office in London with the loss of up to 150 jobs. 19-Jun-2002 KYE has announced plans to create 100 jobs at a fabrication yard in Middlesbrough to work on a £150m gas pipeline project in the Irish Sea, while a further 200 jobs will be created in Barrow. 19-Jun-2002 NPower is linking up with Solar Century to encourage homeowners and small businesses to convert to solar energy, with the first project being the country's largest solar roof on a training centre being built at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. 17-Jun-2002 Talisman Energy has launched a feasibility study into plans to build one of the world's biggest offshore windfarms with up to 120 turbines at the Beatrice oilfield 75 miles off Aberdeen. 14-Jun-2002 Allerdale Council is to consider plans from British Energy Renewables to build 12 wind turbines on farmland in Westnewton. 13-Jun-2002 Amec has won a £50m oil rig contract for BP's Clair offshore project, securing the future of about 500 jobs at its Wallsend yard. 12-Jun-2002 Highland Council is to consider plans from RDC Scotland for the development of a £15m wind farm with 14 turbines near Dunvegan on Skye. 10-Jun-2002 Scottish Power has won permission from Argyll & Bute Council to build a £20m wind farm with 35 turbines at Cruach Mhor, Glendaruel, and local companies will now be invited to tender for up to £3m in contracts. 07-Jun-2002 Expro International is seeking acquisitions worth up to £100m to expand its oil services business. 07-Jun-2002 The Department of Trade & Industry has announced a further £8.4m of state aid for six coal mines in Wales, Scotland and Yorkshire. 06-Jun-2002 BP is to build a £2bn 1,090-mile oil pipeline across Turkey in partnership with Eni, Statoil and Unocal. 06-Jun-2002 NPower is considering plans to centralise its IT and administration departments in Birmingham, which would affect 146 staff currently working for its Northern Electric & Gas business at Carliol House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 04-Jun-2002 The International Petroleum Exchange is to go fully electronic by May 2003, and many traders are expected to seek other jobs. 03-Jun-2002 BP is planning to shed a further 800 jobs among its contractors as part of a restructuring of its North Sea operations, which will affect operations in Aberdeen, Shetland, Teesside and Norfolk. 03-Jun-2002 UK Coal is to shed a further 77 jobs at the Harworth Colliery near Worksop. 03-Jun-2002 Venture Production has won government approval for a £90m project to develop the Sycamore oil and gas field, creating 400 onshore and offshore jobs during construction. 29-May-2002 East Surrey Holdings is to invest a further £12m in the Phoenix Natural Gas joint venture over the next three years, in order to develop a new gas distribution network in Belfast in partnership with BG and KeySpan Energy. 29-May-2002 Fenland District Council has approved plans from Wind Prospect to build nine wind turbines at Coldham, in order to provide green electricity to thousands of homes. 28-May-2002 Scottish Power has submitted plans for the development of a £70m wind farm on the site of an abandoned open-cast mine at Forth in South Lanarkshire. 24-May-2002 Centrica has agreed to take the full output of a £425m 860MW gas-fired power plant to be built by InterGen in Spalding, and has also secured planning permission to build a £60m natural gas terminal at Barrow-in-Furness. 23-May-2002 BP and BG Group have agreed a complex deal to swap assets in the North Sea, with BG increasing its stake in the Neptune and Atlantic gas fields and BP acquiring cash and minority stakes in a number of oil fields. 22-May-2002 United Utilities and Abbey National Treasury Services have won a £225m contract from British Gas to install and maintain about 5m gas meters in northern England and North Wales. 22-May-2002 Wavegen is to receive £2.3m of government funding to develop three shallow-water wave energy devices off the Western Isles. 21-May-2002 Weatherford International, the oil services group, is to relocate its manufacturing business and up to 50 staff from Aberdeen to Arbroath, but will soon announce plans for a new research and development site in Aberdeen. 21-May-2002 The Scottish Executive is to consider plans from TXU for the development of an offshore wind farm with 60 turbines at Robin Rigg in the Solway Firth. 17-May-2002 The Scottish Fuel Cell Consortium is seeking business partners to help transform Islay into the world's first hydrogen-powered island, which would involve a wave power station and the use of fuel cells for local people to take home. 16-May-2002 The Carbon Trust has announced plans to provide up to £75m of funding to developers of low-carbon energy technology, as part of a government programme to reinvest some of the proceeds of the climate change levy in industry. 16-May-2002 Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells is to set up a membrane electrode assembly production facility at Lydiard Fields in Swindon in August, with the creation of 100 jobs. 13-May-2002 WS Atkins is to create 50 new jobs at the Westlakes Science Park near Whitehaven, in order to help British Nuclear Fuels deal with nuclear waste. 09-May-2002 Shell has paid £20m for a 20% stake in Iogen Energy, the Canadian company developing technology that uses straw to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from petrol-driven cars. 09-May-2002 Dynegy of the US has received a number of offers for its UK-based gas storage business. 06-May-2002 British Energy is considering plans to take over the management of some of the six Magnox reactors owned by British Nuclear Fuels. 06-May-2002 UK Coal is to invest £1m at the Ellington colliery in Northumberland, in order to maintain production and secure the future of 400 jobs. 02-May-2002 Coalpower is to submit plans for the development of an industry park around its proposed £300m power station at Hatfield Colliery in Doncaster, which could lead to the creation of up to 2,000 jobs. 01-May-2002 Banham Poultry is seeking planning permission to build a power plant fuelled by waste products at its poultry processing factory in Attleborough. 25-Apr-2002 Newark & Sherwood District Council has approved plans from Sherwood Energy Village for the £100m transformation of Ollerton Colliery into a "green" village, including offices, houses, hotels, a biomass power plant and the creation of up to 1,000 jobs. 24-Apr-2002 John Wood Group is planning to raise £140m in a flotation, in order to fund the expansion of its Aberdeen-based oil services business and reduce debt. 23-Apr-2002 CPL Industries is to close the Cwm Coking Works in Llantwit Fardre this summer with the loss of 150 jobs. 22-Apr-2002 Sibir Energy is to receive a £166m equity investment from two Russian oil groups - Tatneft and Corus - in order to establish an oil refinery and distribution venture in Moscow. 19-Apr-2002 PowerGen and Abbot have won government approval for the development of a £80m 76MW offshore wind farm at Great Yarmouth, which will include 38 turbines. 18-Apr-2002 Centrica is to acquire Central Power & Light and West Texas Utilities from American Electric Power for about £100m. 18-Apr-2002 BP is to increase its stake in Russian oil company Sidanco from 10 to 25% at a cost of £260m. 17-Apr-2002 British Gas is planning to create dozens of new sales and customer service jobs at its recently-acquired Enron Direct electricity and gas business in Oxford. 16-Apr-2002 Melrose Resources is considering plans for an equity offering to raise funds for the expansion of its oil and gas exploration activities in Egypt and Bulgaria. 16-Apr-2002 Goldman Sachs has been appointed by NRG of the US to find a buyer for its UK power station operations, including the gas-fired Killingholme plant in Lincolnshire. 15-Apr-2002 Foster Wheeler has won a £60m contract from Shell to build onshore gas processing facilities at the St Fergus terminal in the outer Moray Firth, which will create 70 jobs at its Glasgow office and more than 300 jobs elsewhere in Scotland. 12-Apr-2002 TXU Europe is to stop using door-to-door energy sales representatives in the south west and Wales, and about 30 staff will be offered the chance to transfer to the east or the north west. 10-Apr-2002 Economy Power has secured £1.5m of funding from the Bank of Wales to expand its electricity trading business, and more sales people will be added to the 65-strong Cardiff workforce. 09-Apr-2002 Island Solar is planning to set up a solar panels factory near Cowes on the Isle of Wight this summer, with the creation of about 80 jobs. 08-Apr-2002 Hyder Business Services is to create 150 jobs at its Cwmbran headquarters, having won a £6m call centre contract from Virgin Energy. 04-Apr-2002 International Power is to mothball half the 500 MW capacity of its Deeside power station due to weak wholesale electricity prices. 02-Apr-2002 Vibtech of Glasgow has secured £4m to fund the development of its Infinite Telemetry system for the oil industry, which allows large volumes of seismic geological data to be transmitted via a broadband cellular radio network. 02-Apr-2002 Shell has made a major gas discovery in the President field in the Norwegian Sea, and an estimate of reserves is expected in May. 02-Apr-2002 Emerald Energy has secured two contracts to search for oil in Colombia's Llanos Basin. 02-Apr-2002 Airtricity is planning to create up to 50 jobs in Northern Ireland over the next three years, having formed a new subsidiary to offer cheaper electricity to small businesses, and is currently seeking approval for two wind farms in Fermanagh and Tyrone. 29-Mar-2002 Shell has announced plans to build a £350m liquefied natural gas terminal in Baja California, Mexico, by 2006. 28-Mar-2002 The National Assembly for Wales is considering plans from Celtic Offshore Wind for the development of a £150m offshore wind farm at Abergele, near Colwyn Bay. 27-Mar-2002 Viridian, the electricity supplier, is planning to shed 250 jobs at sites in Belfast and elsewhere. 25-Mar-2002 BP is planning to shed 500 jobs, including 200 in Aberdeen, in order to improve the profitability of its North Sea oil operation. 25-Mar-2002 Paladin Resources has announced a £26m deal to acquire two new stakes in Norwegian North Sea oil fields, increasing production to 29,000 barrels a day. 22-Mar-2002 Dana Petroleum is to pay £48m for a portfolio of North Sea production, development and exploration assets from Agip, gaining estimated reserves of 19m barrels of oil equivalent. 22-Mar-2002 Scottish & Southern Energy has awarded contracts worth £50m to refurbish its hydroelectric power stations, including Ceannacroc, Invergarry and Aigas, near Inverness. 22-Mar-2002 Scottish Power is planning to shed 500 jobs across Scotland and the north-west of England, including 200 at its Manweb customer sales and services division. 21-Mar-2002 Shell has announced plans to invest £5.3bn in the Nigerian energy sector over the next three years, in partnership with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Eni and TotalFinaElf. 21-Mar-2002 Ocean Power Delivery has raised £6m of venture capital to fund the development of its Edinburgh-based wave-power technology business, and hopes to connect floating generators to Scotland's grid within two years. 21-Mar-2002 British Gas is looking to recruit 3,000 additional engineers by 2005, and many will start work at its two new training centres in Glasgow and Basingstoke. 21-Mar-2002 Cambridge University is to share a £4m government grant with 17 other organisations around the country to encourage the use of solar energy, and will install solar panels at the new West Cambridge science and technology campus. 20-Mar-2002 International Power is looking to spend up to £1bn on the acquisition of power plants, but may reduce the output at its 500MW Deeside gas-fired plant due to low electricity prices. 20-Mar-2002 Scottish & Southern Energy is conducting a feasibility study into the development of a 60MW hydroelectric dam near the southern end of Loch Ness. 19-Mar-2002 Aminex has recommended that shareholders reject a £1.8m takeover offer from its smaller exploration rival Apple Oil & Gas. 18-Mar-2002 Edinburgh Oil & Gas is to raise £5.8m in a share placing to fund pre-development work on an oilfield 60 miles off Aberdeen. 18-Mar-2002 Centrica is to expand its Luminus joint venture in Belgium through the £5m acquisition of the electricity customers of four municipal utilities. 15-Mar-2002 Moray Council has approved plans from Fred Olsen Renewables for the development of two £70m 28-turbine wind farms in the hills of Speyside. 15-Mar-2002 BHP Billiton is to relocate the headquarters of its petroleum and purchasing operations from London to Northop, Flintshire, at a cost of £3m. 14-Mar-2002 Shell Expro has won government approval to start work on the £300m Goldeneye natural gas project in the Outer Moray Firth, which will create 300 North Sea construction jobs. 14-Mar-2002 The Welsh Development Agency has launched a pilot initiative to help companies exploit opportunities in the renewable energy sector, as Wales is being considered as a potential location for a number of schemes over the next five years. 13-Mar-2002 Aker Kvaerner is expecting to create up to 1,000 jobs in Aberdeen over the next two years, as part of the ongoing expansion of its oil platform engineering and maintenance operation. 13-Mar-2002 Premier Oil is to invest £7m in the £69m Zamzama gas field project in Pakistan. 07-Mar-2002 Scottish & Southern Energy is looking into the possibility of developing a new 100MW hydro-electric power scheme at an unspecified location in northern Scotland. 06-Mar-2002 Scottish & Southern Energy has announced a contract with Vestas-Celtic Wind Technology to build a £7m 13MW windfarm at Tangy on the Mull of Kintyre. 05-Mar-2002 The Scottish Executive is understood to have chosen Aberdeen as the location for a new Scottish Energy Institute, which could lead to the creation of thousands of jobs. 05-Mar-2002 Compact Power is planning to raise £7m in a flotation on Aim in preparation for next year's opening of its first commercial municipal waste plant in Dumfries. 04-Mar-2002 LEPCO has acquired Westmount Resources, which has interests in oilfields in the Gulf area of the US, from Westmount Energy for £0.5m. 01-Mar-2002 Marathon Oil has announced plans to build a £600m 675km gas pipeline between North Sea gas fields and the Bacton terminal in East Anglia. 01-Mar-2002 British Energy and British Nuclear Fuels are forming a joint venture to develop plans for the replacement of British Energy's ageing nuclear plants with a new generation of power stations. 26-Feb-2002 Innogy is seeking permission to build a new 100,000 sq facility in Swindon for its Regenesys fuel cells business, in order to relocate staff from the existing sites at Harwell and Windmill Hill. 22-Feb-2002 Centrica has raised £426m in a share placing to fund acquisitions and the expansion of its US electricity and gas supply business. 22-Feb-2002 Bank of Scotland is forming a pan-European consortium called Aeolus to invest up to £1bn in wind farm developments, and partners include NordLB, NIB, PB Power, Norton Rose and Marsh. 18-Feb-2002 Venture Production of Aberdeen is planning to raise about £25m in a flotation next month to fund the development of oil and gas reserves in the North Sea and in Trinidad. 18-Feb-2002 Alkane Energy has won eight new onshore oil and gas licences in a 1,190 km area covering 15 blocks from Scotland to North Wales. 15-Feb-2002 Lattice has announced plans to shed 2,400 of the 14,000 jobs in its Transco gas pipeline business, with most of the cuts being in administration and management. 08-Feb-2002 Tuscan Energy has secured £10m of venture capital funding to restart production at the former Argyll oil field in the North Sea next year. 07-Feb-2002 Enterprise Oil is reducing the headcount at its London headquarters from 300 to 200, and has also announced a number of deals to increase its activities in the North Sea, Russia and Brazil. 06-Feb-2002 Castle Cement and waste management specialist SRM are building a £4m plant at Ketton in Rutland to process waste from the paper, printing and packaging industries into fuel. 05-Feb-2002 Seeboard, the south-east England electricity supplier, has again been put up for sale by American Electric Power, and is expected to fetch about £1.5bn. 05-Feb-2002 British Energy has announced plans to invest £31m in improvements at its eight UK nuclear plants over the next two years. 04-Feb-2002 Shell is to shed 176 onshore jobs at its Aberdeen-based Expro operation over the next 18 months. 04-Feb-2002 Bethell has won a £15m electrical cable installation contract from United Utilities, which will create 100 new jobs in the north-west. 04-Feb-2002 UK Coal is to close the Prince of Wales colliery in Pontefract in September, with the loss of about 500 jobs. 31-Jan-2002 Texaco is planning to build multi-storey apartment and office blocks above three petrol stations in London, and is said to be considering the possibility of similar developments on up to 150 sites. 30-Jan-2002 Coalpower is planning to build a new power station next to the Hatfield colliery in Doncaster, which is now in full production and employing more than 200 workers. 29-Jan-2002 Shell, Johnson Matthey and Mitsubishi are to launch an investment company for hydrogen fuel cell technology called Conduit Ventures, and each company will contribute £3.4m. 29-Jan-2002 London Electricity has announced plans to set up a new £13m customer service centre for its SWEB business in Exeter, which would involve the relocation of 600 jobs and the creation of up to 1,000 new jobs. 28-Jan-2002 Shell is to acquire full control of its solar energy joint venture with Siemens and Eon for undisclosed terms, and expects to have 15% of the global photovoltaic market. 24-Jan-2002 Conoco and Foster Wheeler are to start work on the development of a new combined heat and power plant at South Killingholme, which will employ up to 500 construction workers and is due for completion in 2004. 24-Jan-2002 PowerGen has dropped plans to sell its £500m combined heat and power business, and will continue to operate the 17 existing generators and build the four currently under construction. 24-Jan-2002 Scottish Power has submitted plans for the development of a £150m wind farm at Whitelee Forest near Glasgow. 23-Jan-2002 NEG Micon Rotors is to create 50 new jobs at its Newport factory on the Isle of Wight over the next six months, having won an order to supply 69 blades for a wind farm in Australia. 22-Jan-2002 The Crown Estate is in discussions with Northern Ireland's Department of Enterprise about the possibility of building a 150MW 60-turbine wind farm off the Antrim coast near Castlerock. 21-Jan-2002 PanCanadian Energy has announced a major North Sea oil discovery in the Buzzard field, which is expected to lead to a £1bn development involving two 10,000 tonne platforms. 18-Jan-2002 Costain has won a £60m contract to build a gas treatment plant in Barrow-in-Furness, using gas from the River Fields development in the Irish Sea. 18-Jan-2002 BP and ChevronTexaco have announced plans to build a £16m 22MW wind farm at their Nerefco oil refinery near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. 17-Jan-2002 Lattice is forming a £6m joint venture with RWE of Germany to provide transportation services to European gas traders and shippers. 16-Jan-2002 PowerGen is conducting a feasibility study into plans for a £500m 500MW wind farm in the Thames estuary, to provide power to London. 16-Jan-2002 PowerGen is planning to shed up to 100 of the 150 jobs at its call centre in Uddingston. 11-Jan-2002 Scottish & Southern Energy and Wavegen are planning to set up a series of wave energy power stations off north-west Scotland, and Wavegen is looking to manufacture wave energy plants at the former Arnish yard on Lewis. 11-Jan-2002 Enterprise Oil has rejected an unsolicited takeover approach said to have come from ENI of Italy, which is expected to cause an increase in interest in the UK oil group. 09-Jan-2002 Shell is considering plans to invest £5.2bn in Nigerian oil and gas, as part of a consortium with Agip and TotalFinaElf. 09-Jan-2002 Melrose Resources has announced the discovery of up to 50 billion cubic feet of gas at the El Mansoura prospect in Egypt. 07-Jan-2002 Intersolar is to build a £1.2m solar cell factory at an undisclosed location, having secured a £0.5m grant from the Department of Trade & Industry. 07-Jan-2002 National Grid International is seeking permission to build a multi-million pound converter station on 200 acres of land at Hawthorn Colliery in east Durham, which would export any surplus power to Norway through undersea cables. 04-Jan-2002 The information below comes from the UK Activity Report. 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