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BP plans to triple its offshore wind

farm jobs by end of 2023

UK OIL supermajor BP plans to more than triple its launched BP’s green shift in 2020, with a pledge
offshore wind farm jobs in an effort to achieve to ramp up renewable energy, noted Bloomberg.
BP is targeting 880 its CO2 goals, a company executive has told The company is in the process of hiring a
offshore wind farms by Bloomberg. head of floating wind, he said. BP’s first entry
the end of next year. By year-end 2023, BP aims to employ 800 in into floating projects may be in the UK, where
offshore wind, up from about 220 now. the Crown Estate will soon open new leases in
The company also says it will target floating the Celtic Sea off south-west England.
wind in its green push. Floating is a nascent tech- “Floating will play a key role in our strategy,”
nology with massive potential to bring offshore said Sandford. “In the oil and gas business, float-
wind farms into deeper waters. ing structures are something that’s very common
“BP is committed to the energy transition,” and BP have great expertise in that area.”
Richard Sandford, BP’s vice president for off- In other BP news, in a significant contract Par-
shore wind in the UK, told Bloomberg. “Off- is-based Nexans will design and lay export cables for
shore wind is a key component to that story.” the 816-MW Empire Wind 1 project in the US. Empire
Still, even with the additional hires and inter- is a 50:50 partnership between BP and Equinor.
nal moves, offshore wind staff will only comprise The project, off Long Island in New York
just over 1% of BP’s approximately 60,000-strong State, is expected to go online in 2026. Danish
workforce, the news service notes. firm Vestas is the preferred turbine supplier, and
About half of the growth in offshore wind jobs will will supply 54 x V236-15.0 MWs.
come from internal moves, the BP executive said. BP is so far involved in nine offshore wind
Chief executive officer Bernard Looney had projects in the UK, US and Vietnam. ™
NEWS IN BRIEF

Kremlin claims attempt at Estonia’s opposition Centre circumstances, the expenses incurred in
creating necessary capacity must definitely
blowing up TurkStream gas Party files no-confidence be compensated to the companies. Minister
Sikkut has knowingly and maliciously misled
pipeline thwarted, announces motion in minister over LNG and kept Estonia in the dark,” the statement
added.
arrests vessel saga ministers must perform their duties honestly,
The Centre Party says that government
The Kremlin said on October 13 that Estonia’s opposition Centre Party MPs transparently, in the interest of the state and
several people were arrested during a have signed a motion of no-confidence in accordance with the laws of the Republic
thwarted attempt to blow up a section of the in Minister of Economic Affairs and of Estonia, while “deliberately” misleading
TurkStream gas pipeline on Russian territory, Communications Riina Sikkut, representing the public is inappropriate for a minister, in
Interfax news agency reported. the Social Democrats, claiming that she did addition to Sikkut’s failure to protect Estonia’s
Russian leader Vladimir Putin brought not sufficiently stand up for the interests of interests, ensure its energy security and
up the claimed attempt at sabotage during a the Estonian state in relation to a Floating maintain its international reputation, the
meeting in Kazakh capital Astana on October Regassification Storage Unit (FRSU) vessel party’s MPs say.
13 with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip which is sailing to Finland rather than Estonia “Riina Sikkut is not suitable for the
Erdogan, Tass reported. and will supply both countries with their minister of economy and infrastructure of the
Russia said it was tightening security on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) needs over the Republic of Estonia,” the statement concludes.
the TurkStream pipeline, infrastructure that winter, ERR.ee, an Estonian news website, MPs from the other opposition party,
transits Russian gas to Turkey via a route reported on October 13. the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia
through the Black Sea. The motion reads: “The Minister of (EKRE), have also called for Sikkut’s
No more details of the alleged attempt Economy and Communications of the resignation over the matter.
at blowing up the TurkStream section were Republic of Estonia, Riina Sikkut, has lost The plans for the obtaining of an LNG
provided by Russian officials. trust as a minister because she has acted FRSU vessel and the construction of the
Still unexplained are ruptures, seemingly covertly and maliciously relating to the berth at Paldiski needed to bring LNG from
caused by explosions, on the Nord Stream gas bringing of an LNG vessel to the port of ship to shore and to re-gassify it for supply to
pipelines in the Baltic Sea and an oil leak on Paldiski, and in ensuring the security of consumers, were put in place prior to Sikkut
the Druzhba pipeline in Poland. supply of LNG to Estonia.” being appointed to the post.
Putin has warned that the Nord Stream As a result of Sikkut’s actions, there has She has also proposed Estonia procuring
incident has shown that energy infrastructure been a conscious waste of taxpayers’ money its own FRSU vessel for mooring off Paldiski,
everywhere has a certain vulnerability to and deliberate misleading of business, the ERR.ee reported.
sabotage. statement states.
“Taking into account the known

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