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31 Mar 26	Wood appoints David Cole as Executive President, Consulting Wood has announced the appointment of Dr David Cole FREng as Executive President of its Consulting business. David joins Wood from Sizewell C, where he was Director of Energy Strategy.
30 Mar 26	Japan: FLOWRA and Bureau Veritas sign MoU to support floating offshore wind technology development in Japan The Floating Offshore Wind Power Technology Research Association (FLOWRA) of Japan and Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore collaboration on technology development for floating offshore wind.
30 Mar 26	Italy: The entire Itabus fleet travels with Enilive HVO diesel biofuel Enilive HVO diesel biofuel, produced from waste and residues, reduces CO2 equivalent emissions by 79.5%. In 2025, Itabus used HVO with a peak of 75%. Its fleet has traveled 20 million kilometers using more than 3 million liters of Enilive HVO.
30 Mar 26	IEA launches tracker to monitor policy responses to energy market impacts of Middle East conflict The International Energy Agency has launched a dedicated policy tracker to monitor government actions taken in response to the energy market impacts of the conflict in the Middle East.
30 Mar 26	UK: TotalEnergies completes the merger of its UK North Sea upstream assets with NEO NEXT TotalEnergies has announced the completion of the merger between NEO NEXT and TotalEnergies’ UK Upstream Oil & Gas business. The combined group is renamed NEO NEXT+. Further to this transaction, NEO NEXT+ becomes the largest independent Oil and Gas producer on the UK Continental Shelf with an expected 2026 production of over 250,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
30 Mar 26	Germany: World Premiere in Mahlsdorf: First wind farm with Nordex N175 turbines commissioned The UKA Group and the Nordex Group have commissioned the Mahlsdorf wind farm on schedule and in full. With an installed capacity of 68 MW, the project sets a technological benchmark for the economic utilization of sites with moderate wind conditions.
30 Mar 26	Norway: Reach Subsea awarded two contracts using Reach Remote 1 Reach Subsea has been awarded two new call-offs under its frame agreement with Equinor, covering both gas reservoir monitoring and subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Both contracts will be executed using the uncrewed surface vessel Reach Remote 1 (RR1).
30 Mar 26	Touchstone Exploration announces update on recent operational activities in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Touchstone Exploration has provided an update on its recent operational activities in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The Company's current strategy is twofold: maximizing the utilization of existing excess capacity in its processing facilities through targeted drilling and deploying capital toward its highest-priced sales contracts to optimize project returns.
30 Mar 26	Sintana Energy provides update on developments across its portfolio of high impact assets in Namibia, Uruguay and Colombia Sintana Energy, the Atlantic-margin focused oil and gas company, has provided an update on developments across its portfolio of high-impact assets - Namibia, Uruguay and Colombia.
30 Mar 26	Egypt: Capricorn Energy provides update on ratification of Western Desert integrated concession agreement Capricorn has been informed that the Egyptian House of Representatives has ratified the consolidated and amended concession agreement covering eight of the Company's existing Egyptian Western Desert concession agreements in which it has a 50% participating interest held jointly with Cheiron Oil and Gas.
30 Mar 26	Angola: Afentra provides an update on the planned Block 3/05 drilling programme, offshore Angola Afentra, the upstream oil and gas company focused on acquiring mature production and development assets in Africa, has provided an update on the planned Block 3/05 drilling programme, offshore Angola.
30 Mar 26	Australia: Jadestone Energy provides Stag field update AIM-listed Jadestone Energy, an independent upstream production and development company focused on the Asia-Pacific region, has provided an update in relation to the impact of Cyclone Narelle on the Stag field offshore Australia.
30 Mar 26	US: 88 Energy's Augusta-1 exploration well planning and permitting underway 88 Energy has provided an update on its recently consolidated South Prudhoe acreage position on Alaska's North Slope. Permitting and planning activities have commenced for the high-impact, multi-zone Augusta-1 exploration well, located within the North-West Lease Area of the South Prudhoe Project. Permitting will include three potential drilling locations, ensuring maximum optionality for potential farmout partners.
30 Mar 26	UK: UK looks ahead to next chapter of extraordinary offshore wind story as plans for new leasing round in 2027 unveiled A major new investment opportunity for the UK’s offshore wind sector is set to open next year, as The Crown Estate announces a new process to accelerate clean energy growth and deliver jobs and economic benefits across the country. The seabed manager has begun a programme of market engagement ahead of an intended official launch of a new leasing round, Offshore Wind Leasing Round 6, in the first half of 2027.
30 Mar 26	UK: New British wind energy record set as gas generation falls to two-year low RenewableUK’s Chief Executive Tara Singh comments on the British wind energy generation record announced March 26 by the National Energy System Operator (NESO), which confirmed a new high of 23,880 megawatts on Wednesday 25 March, beating the previous record of 23,825MW set on 5 December.
30 Mar 26	US: Woodside assumes control of Beaumont New Ammonia operations Woodside Energy has assumed operational control of the Beaumont New Ammonia (BNA) facility in southeast Texas, following successful completion of performance testing and handover from OCI Global.
30 Mar 26	TGS announces AWS as its preferred cloud provider TGS, a leading provider of energy data and intelligence, has announced a multi-year strategic agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS). TGS has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, leveraging AWS high-performance computing (HPC) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to build solutions that will transform how the energy industry explores and extracts resources.
30 Mar 26	UK: Melgarve Cluster connection project secures consent SSEN Transmission has welcomed the decision by Scottish Ministers to approve its Section 37 application for a new 132kV overhead line in the Highlands. As part of the Melgarve Cluster project, the new line will run for approximately 7km, which together with underground cabling will connect the Cloiche Wind Farm – located around 11km southeast of Fort Augustus – to the existing Melgarve 400/132kV substation.
30 Mar 26	Aventus Energy rebrands as Global Energy Solutions and targets turnkey energy infrastructure contracts as four major renewables scopes clinched Aventus Energy, a specialist inspection, maintenance & repair, construction and installation solutions provider for onshore and offshore energy assets and infrastructure, has rebranded as Global Energy Solutions - a new identity that connects it with the wider ‘Global’ brand of its parent company.
30 Mar 26	France: TotalEnergies and EDF sign partnership to secure low-carbon electricity supply for TotalEnergies’ refining & chemicals sites in France Under this agreement, EDF will allocate to TotalEnergies a share of the output of its operating nuclear fleet. This allocation will enable TotalEnergies to cover around 60% of the electricity needs of its refining and chemicals sites in France, estimated at 400 MW.
29 Mar 26	Peru: Condor Energy identifies large-scale deepwater reservoir systems at TEA-86 Condor Energy has provided an update on the integrated subsurface technical studies across its Technical Evaluation Agreement (TEA-86) area in the offshore Tumbes Basin, Peru. The Company has accelerated its technical work programme under the TEA, delivering key geological and geophysical results ahead of schedule and supporting progression toward exploration Licence Contract conversion application.
29 Mar 26	US: XGS Energy and Baker Hughes announce strategic collaboration to advance geothermal development in New Mexico XGS Energy, a developer of next-generation geothermal power systems, and Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, have announced a strategic collaboration and initial order for Baker Hughes engineering services to advance XGS’s planned 150-megawatt geothermal project in New Mexico.
29 Mar 26	Germany: Expro to deliver geothermal well testing services for groundbreaking Lionheart Project in Germany Expro is set to deliver well testing services for the first Schleidberg well as part of Vulcan Energy’s Lionheart Project - one of Europe’s most significant geothermal and lithium extraction developments.
29 Mar 26	Philippines: Prime Energy reports new Malampaya wells on track for first gas by Q4 Prime Energy, operator of Service Contract No. 38 (SC 38), on March 26 said that it is on track to deliver first gas from the Malampaya Phase 4 (MP4) development by the fourth quarter of 2026, following President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s announcement of the successful drilling, completion and flow test of the Camago-3 well in offshore Palawan.
29 Mar 26	Germany: Nordseecluster B: RWE receives approvals for offshore wind farm in German North Sea RWE has been given the green light for a further offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. In late March, the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) granted planning permission for Nordseecluster B (comprising NC 3 and NC 4). This allows RWE to implement the second phase of its 1.6-gigawatt Nordseecluster.