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July 17, 2014

by AEA

TAP issues contract notice for supply and installation

TAP issues contract notice for supply and installation of gas turbine compressors in Greece and Albania

Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) is continuing its pre-qualification of potential suppliers for the construction of the 870km-long high pressure natural gas pipeline with its associated infrastructure across Greece, Albania, and Adriatic Sea with landfall in Southern Italy.

This week TAP has issued its fourth contract notice in the Official Journal of the EU – the EU Gazette: Link to the announcement for the supply and installation of ~ 15 MW range gas turbine turbo compressors.

Six turbo compressors will be purchased for installation on two compressor stations – three for a compressor station in Albania near Fier, and three for a compressor station in Greece near Kipoi.

Companies interested in being pre-qualified for this contract need to request a pre-qualification questionnaire from TAP no later than 14.07.2014. This request can be sent to TAP via email atpqq.turbocompressors@tap-ag.com.

The scope of this Supply Contract will include manufacturing, delivery, engineering, installation and pre-commissioning of the turbo compressors. The potential suppliers need to demonstrate that their equipment is “proven technology”, which has been successfully used on compressor stations similar to TAP’s.

The compressor stations will be built in accordance with the international industry standards on health and safety, located at a significant distance away from highly populated areas, causing minimum impact on the environment and local communities. TAP has developed a set of measures to mitigate any impacts as described in its Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA in Albania and ESIA in Greece).

The current pre-qualification is the fourth one, following contract notices on construction of Albanian roads and bridges, onshore pipeline construction in Greece and Albania, construction of compressor stations in Greece and Albania. Full overview of the procurement process in TAP:www.tap-ag.com/tenders.

The next contract notices to be issued by TAP over the next three months will include the pre-qualification of companies supplying Large Diameter Valves and steel line pipes for onshore section of TAP.
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About the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP)

TAP will transport natural gas from the giant Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan to Europe. The approximately 870 km long pipeline will connect with the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) near the Turkish-Greek border at Kipoi, cross Greece and Albania and the Adriatic Sea, before coming ashore in Southern Italy.

TAP will promote the economic development and job creation along the pipeline route; it will be a major source of foreign direct investment and it is not dependent on grants or subsidies. With first gas sales to Georgia and Turkey targeted for late 2018, first deliveries to Europe will follow approximately a year later.
TAP’s shareholding is comprised of BP (20%), SOCAR (20%), Statoil (20%), Fluxys (16%), Total (10%), E.ON (9%) and Axpo (5%).

July 17, 2014

by AEA

China Three Years Late on Installing Offshore Wind Farms

BEIJING – China is three years behind schedule on a plan that would make it the world’s biggest market for offshore wind, a setback for the $15 billion industry that’s seeking to produce affordable electricity from the one of nature’s most reliable energy sources.

China set out an ambitious plan in 2011 to build 5,000 megawatts of offshore wind turbines in four years, enough to power 5.4 million homes. With less than 10 percent of that capacity in place, officials now say they won’t meet that goal.

Strong, steady offshore breezes have the potential to become an important source of electricity, but installing jumbo- jet sized gear in the harsh, marine environment is a complicated and expensive endeavor. The slow pace in China is matched by the U.S., which has no offshore wind farms after more than a decade of development efforts. In Europe, the only continent with any significant sea-based wind power, companies have scrapped plans for more than 5,700 megawatts since November.

China is “more cautious” on offshore wind than it was on solar and onshore wind because “it’s more risky and costly,” said Shi Pengfei, honorary chairman of the Chinese Wind Energy Association.

The target for offshore wind “definitely can’t be attained,” said Li Junfeng, director general of the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation. That’s a rare public admission from the government agency responsible for studying climate-change policy.

Turbine Makers

German power-equipment maker Siemens AG, along with Chinese competitors Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co. and Sinovel Wind Group Co., have the most at stake since they’re the top turbine suppliers for China’s offshore projects.

There was 429 megawatts of offshore wind power operating in China at the end of 2013. The country may install about 500 megawatts of offshore capacity next year and 1,000 megawatts in 2016, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

Worldwide, about 2,570 megawatts are expected to be installed this year, worth about $15 billion. That total may grow to 7,560 megawatts in 2020, according to the London-based researcher.

“Offshore wind is at the testing stage and development won’t be too fast,” said Gao Hongbiao, deputy general manager of Jiangsu Longyuan Offshore Wind Power Co., a unit of one of the four biggest Chinese utilities commissioning wind projects.

Onshore Wind

Offshore turbines are insignificant when compared to China’s onshore wind capacity of 77 gigawatts. That’s the most in the world, and the government has plans to install an additional 18 gigawatts this year, according to the National Energy Administration. The cost of power from land-based wind rivals that of coal or natural-gas fired plants.

China is moving slowly with offshore wind after its onshore wind industry expanded so quickly that the rest of the country’s energy infrastructure couldn’t keep up. As much as 12 percent of its onshore wind turbines weren’t connected to the grid in 2013. Another 11 percent of the turbines had grid connections and were idled because transmission lines couldn’t handle all the output producing.

“China learned from experience on onshore projects when setting offshore policies,” said Tang Wenqian, executive vice secretary-general of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association, an organization that acts as a conduit between government policy makers and industry executives.

‘Well Behind’

What’s happening in China is mirrored in other regions, said Steve Sawyer, secretary-general of the Global Wind Energy Council.

Progress in the industry “is well behind most projections that have been made,” he said in an e-mail.

In the U.S., Cape Wind Associates LLP has been planning what may be the country’s first offshore wind farm for more than a decade, in Nantucket Sound, off Massachusetts. It’s faced stiff opposition from fisherman, American Indian groups and local residents including both the Koch and Kennedy families.

A handful of other companies are also developing Atlantic Coast wind farms. The U.S. Interior Department has awarded five leases from Massachusetts to Virginia and is planning to auction more offshore sites this year.

Europe is the most advanced market for offshore wind, with about 7.3 gigawatts in operation, and 4.9 gigawatts under construction, according to the European Wind Energy Association.

Unexploded Mines

Even there, environmental concerns and risks including unexploded World War II-era undersea mines are driving up the cost of what’s already a costly source of power. Developers have canceled plans to build more than 5,700 megawatts of additional capacity since November.

Offshore wind is among the most expensive renewable energy technologies working at utility scale. Towers as tall as 40- story buildings must be anchored to the seabed, holding blades as long as the wingspan on the biggest commercial jetliners. The units must withstand storms that buffet the coast, including typhoons that hit China in the summer.

The cost of offshore turbines is surpassed only by solar- thermal systems, which use the sun’s energy to heat fluids, and by more experimental equipment that produces electricity from the motion of waves and tides, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The price China is offering for offshore wind power is the lowest among nations that have publicly set out goals for developing the industry.

Offshore Rates

It set incentive rates of 750 yuan a megawatt-hour for projects in inter-tidal areas, waters up to five meters deep, and 850 yuan for turbines in water deeper than that. That comes out to about 89 euros ($121) and 101 euros, compared with 255 euros for offshore wind in Japan, about 150 euros in the U.K. and 124 euros in Germany.

The prices set for offshore wind power are “quite conservative,” said Tang of the renewable energy lobby group.

Even so, China’s rates may be enough to attract some developers. Rates of return for the projects may be as much as 8.2 and 10.3 percent, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimates.

“We can still make money at the new rate,” said Lan Peizhen, investor relations manager at China Longyuan Power Group Corp., the nation’s biggest developer of onshore and offshore wind farms. The company currently operates 250 megawatts of inter-tidal projects. It’s building a 100-megawatt inter-tidal project in the eastern province of Jiangsu and a 400-megawatt sea-based project in Fujian.

Bigger Turbines

Goldwind “will gradually develop offshore turbines with bigger capacity as well as higher reliability and power generation,” the company said in an e-mailed response to questions.

“Offshore wind is the main battlefield of displaying Sinovel Wind’s skill to the full,” Sinovel’s media manager, Bao Zhen, said in an e-mailed response to questions. Cordula Ressing, a spokeswoman for Siemens, declined to comment when contacted by phone and e-mail.

The government in Beijing may have to issue a general plan for ocean uses before pressing the industry to expand more quickly, said Wang Zhongying, deputy head of the Energy Research Institute at National Development and Reform Commission, a state-level organization that studies energy policies. “It’s hard to see a rapid development in offshore wind power,” Wang said.

July 16, 2014

by AEA

3rd Annual Balkans and the Adriatic Oil & Gas 2014 Summit

Albanian onshore licensing round

Albania holds two of continental Europe’s largest onshore fields, the Patos-Marinza and Kucova field, both operated by Bankers Petroleum, placing Albania amongst Europe’s largest and oldest oil and gas producers with substantial onshore and offshore fields.

Patos-Marinza alone is Europe’s largest onshore heavy oil field, originally holding 5.4 billion barrels of oil, and it has been recently reported that it still holds approximately 2 billion barrels of oil.

Bankers Petroleum is a Canadian-based oil and gas E&P company that operates and has full rights to develop the Patos-Marinza and Kucova heavy oilfields.

Very recently, the Ministry of Energy and Industry of Albania launched an open door licensing round for 12 onshore blocks and 1 offshore block, with the new regulations for the entire upstream sector expected to be released and defined in the upcoming month.

Join us on 1st-3rd October at the Grande Bretagne Hotel in Athens to hear exclusive insights on the highly prosperous Albanian hydrocarbons industry from Dorian Ducka, the Deputy Minister of Energy and Industry; and Mark Hodgson, the Business Development Vice President and Deputy General Director of Bankers Petroleum Albania.

For more information on this 3rd edition of the Summit reply with
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Dritan Spahiu, Director of Policies and Development of Hydrocarbons in the Ministry of Energy and Industry of Albania, will give an insightful analysis of the sector in Albania and the current developments at the Summit.

Bankers Petroleum, supporting the Ministry’s objectives and investment incentives, will join the Ministry’s delegation at the 3rd Annual Balkans and the Adriatic Oil & Gas 2014 Summit as a Gold Sponsor to the event.

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May 28, 2014

by AEA

Bible Verses About GOD Being With Us

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May 27, 2014

by AEA

10 Ways To Help Others That Will Lead You To Success

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May 25, 2014

by AEA

Top 25 Christian Leaders You Should Follow on Twitter

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