Europe is bracing for a tough winter as an energy crisis that’s been years in the making leaves the continent relying on the vagaries of the weather. Faced with surging gas and electricity prices, countries from the UK to Germany will need to count on mild temperatures to get through …
Read More »IEA Head Birol Named Among Top Influencers
Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has been named one of the most influential 100 persons of 2021 by Time, a political magazine based in New York City, United States. Birol, 63, who has been the executive director of the agency since 2015, is the only …
Read More »Major Oil Companies Need to Wind down Oil Production or Face Stranded Asset Risk
New oil and gas projects are incompatible with a future in which the world stays on track with its climate targets. Needless to say, that has enormous implications for the oil and gas industry. A new report quantifies what that would mean for individual companies. While the impact varies, the …
Read More »China’s Unorthodox Intervention in the Global Oil Market
Apparently, China has been the talk of the town for quite some time. While the entire yesteryear passed in a flurry of blame game over the pandemic, this year has been nothing short of a blessing for Xi’s regime. However, while China rapidly compensated for the drastic slump last year, …
Read More »Majority of Fossil Fuels Need to Stay Underground to Avert Climate Disaster
The vast majority of the world’s known fossil fuel reserves must be kept in the ground to have some hope of preventing the worst effects of the climate emergency, according to new research. The peer-reviewed study, published in the scientific journal Nature on Wednesday, found that 90% of coal must …
Read More »Green Hydrogen can Fuel the Low-Carbon World of the Future
Marking India’s 75th Independence Day last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for energy independence by 2047, when independent India will celebrate its centenary, and announced a National Hydrogen Mission to make India a hub for green hydrogen production and export. India is not alone in having big ambitions when …
Read More »A World without OPEC
A few years ago, as U.S. shale oil production soared towards 11 and then 12 million bpd, turning the country into the world’s largest oil producer, it was fashionable to start imagining that OPEC was becoming irrelevant. It took a pandemic to refute that argument; and now, OPEC is more …
Read More »Oil-Rich Nations Face Growing Pressure to Go Green
Governments in long-established oil-rich nations around the world are coming under fire for their decisions over oil and gas versus renewable alternatives. The once-coveted natural resource is now a question of great contention. But how will the oil industry fare over the coming decades as governments strive for green while …
Read More »Researchers Surprised by Sky-High Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Biogas Residues
Scientists are surprised, but they see a way to stop the climate bomb. “The amount of methane that escaped from composting digested food waste was sky high, which surprised us,” says Maria Dietrich, one of the researchers behind the study, on Nibio’s own website. Dietrich has studied food waste used …
Read More »A Major Oil Exploration Is Going on in Russia’s East Arctic Waters
The Bavenit on the 22nd of August set out from Murmansk with course for remote east Arctic waters. The ship, one of Russia’s most advanced vessels of the kind, is due to drill the first ever wells in the Laptev Sea. According to Rosneft, there has never before been drilled …
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