Category: Sweden

Lundin Petroleum cuts more than 30 percent from its 2015 spending plans, following industry trend in response to lower oil prices. (UPI/Shutterstock/James Jones Jr.) STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 7 (UPI) — With oil prices falling, Swedish energy company Lundin Petroleum said Wednesday it cut its 2015 spending plans by 31 percent from last year. Lundin said that, combined, its total spending for development, appraisal and exploration for 2015 would total around $1.45 billion. The bulk of the spending, about $750 million, would target ongoing operations in Norway, though the majority would focus on its Bertram project in Malaysia. Company President Ashley Heppenstall said the major focus would be on Norwegian and Malaysia projects that would combine for an increase in production to 75,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. "We have a strong balance sheet and I expect our 2015 capital program to be fully funded from internally generated cash […]

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Swedish energy giant Vattenfall said Tuesday that it had given up its research on CO2 capture and storage, intended to make the company’s coal power plants greener. "Vattenfall will discontinue its R&D (research and development) activities regarding coal power with CCS (carbon capture and storage)," the group said in a statement explaining its new research plans. The state-owned giant had been investing in this technology for more than 10 years, with plans for a power plant equipped with CCS in 2016. Capturing and liquifying CO2 coming from carbon combustion to later store it underground was meant to curb greenhouse effect gas emissions, but its costs and the energy it requires make the technology unviable. These difficulties had already forced Vattenfall to give up in 2011 a large project at a pilot plant in Jaenschwalde, in eastern Germany. The European Union then demanded the reimbursement of funding worth 45 million […]

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Swedish energy giant Vattenfall said Tuesday that it had given up its research on CO2 capture and storage, intended to make the company’s coal power plants greener. "Vattenfall will discontinue its R&D (research and development) activities regarding coal power with CCS (carbon capture and storage)," the group said in a statement explaining its new research plans. The state-owned giant had been investing in this technology for more than 10 years, with plans for a power plant equipped with CCS in 2016. Capturing and liquifying CO2 coming from carbon combustion to later store it underground was meant to curb greenhouse effect gas emissions, but its costs and the energy it requires make the technology unviable. These difficulties had already forced Vattenfall to give up in 2011 a large project at a pilot plant in Jaenschwalde, in eastern Germany. The European Union then demanded the reimbursement of funding worth 45 million […]

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