Renewable Energy Group® (NASDAQ:REGI) Tuesday completed the purchase of a 30-million gallon per year capacity biodiesel plant in Mason City, Iowa, formerly owned by Soy Energy, LLC. “We are very pleased to bring REG Mason City into our fleet of biorefineries because it helps us move forward with our growth strategy” [...]

Seddon is looking for new subcontractors to help with a £60m contract with the Sanctuary Group. Sanctuary is developing more than 800 affordable new homes across the Midlands over the next four years in partnership with Seddon. A Meet the Buyer event will be held on Thursday, 8 August at [...]

First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) today welcomes the news that AGL Energy Limited (AGL) has achieved financial close for two utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) projects. First Solar has executed engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts to supply the projects with its advanced thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules and provide EPC services. In [...]

Norwegian oil company Statoil has announced that the agreement signed with the German oil and gas company Wintershall—which includes the divestment of Statoil’s share of the Brage licences, a farm-down in Gjøa and Vega, and acquisition in the Edvard Grieg licence in the North Sea—has been completed. The consideration to [...]

A new campaign urges passengers to be careful around stations, as Network Rail reveals 1,601 recorded incidents of slips, trips and falls. Accidents are more likely to occur after drinking, and the new campaign highlights the importance of caution through posters at all Network Rail managed stations and a YouTube [...]

Tiny wood borers known colloquially as gribbles make their own enzymes and use them to eat through docks in harbor towns, earning enmity from fishermen all around the world. Now, researchers from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and elsewhere are exploring whether that curse can be turned [...]

Mace and Essential Living will develop the UK’s largest private rental scheme at Elephant and Castle in south London. The £100m tower will be 44-storeys high and contain 462 apartments to rent. The scheme will see institutional investment used for the first time in the UK to build a large-scale [...]

Det norske oljeselskap ASA, as partner in PL 535, announces that Total E&P Norge AS as operator of PL 535 is in the process of concluding the drilling of appraisal well 7225/3-2 on the Norvarg gas discovery made in 2011. The appraisal well was drilled approximately 275 kilometres north of [...]

Technip was awarded by Chevron North Sea Ltd a substantial(1) engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPIC) contract for the Alder field. Chevron is developing the Alder field as a subsea tieback to the Britannia Bridge Link Platform (BLP). This field is located in the central North Sea, about 200 kilometers [...]

Utrecht, The Netherlands Dutch banking group Rabobank has highlighted the growing use of geothermal energy to heat commercial greenhouses in the Netherlands. In a new analysis, the bank sees increasing geothermal energy use as a major and relatively cheap way to improve the financials and the stability of the Dutch greenhouse [...]

The Elliott Thomas Group’s construction arm has won its first contracts after being rebranded as Prime last month. The deals will see Prime build a new £3.5m drama centre for St Paul’s School in Barnes, west London and refurbish the school’s sports complex under a separate contract valued at £1.1m. [...]

A £180 million contract to procure another 116 electric multiple unit vehicles for Southern has been signed with Bombardier today, after the mandatory 'stand still' period. The additional trains will be built in Derby. and are being procured by Southern on behalf of the Department for Transport to be used [...]