Bloomberg/New York Just three years after it began sending liquefied natural gas overseas, America now trails only Australia and Qatar in the volume of the fuel it’s capable of exporting. The US…
Shell makes aggressive move into UK retail power market
Bloomberg/London Royal Dutch Shell Plc took a step forward in its aim to become the world’s biggest power company with an aggressive move into the UK retail market by offering one of…
Norway Deals a Blow to an Oil Industry That’s Quickly Losing Friends
The decision of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund to reduce holdings in oil stocks wasn’t as far-reaching as the industry feared, but dealt a symbolic blow to fossil fuels that will…
CCUS is a stopgap to a big hydrogen world
As a proponent of hydrogen being key to the UK’s atmospheric decarbonisation drive, I am concerned that hydrogen receives so little press when compared with carbon capture and storage (CCS). CCS, to…
Carbon emissions leap as global growth strengthens fossil fuel demand
Carbon emissions from fossil fuel use hit a record last year after energy demand grew at its fastest pace in a decade, reflecting higher oil consumption in the U.S. and more coal…
Shell boosts its bet on U.S. LNG exports
Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Energy Transfer LP said they are pursuing plans to convert a liquefied-natural-gas import facility in Louisiana into an export terminal, a bet that the future of U.S….
Claim that LNG is no greener than coal gets new scrutiny
One of the biggest bites ever taken out of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in any developed country is one that environmentalists and renewable energy advocates never seem to mention. Since 2005, energy-related…
MPs demand scrapping Israeli gas deal ‘at any cost’
AMMAN — The Lower House on Tuesday declared its “utter rejection” of the gas deal between Jordan’s National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) and the Israeli occupation authorities. House Speaker Atef Tarawneh said…
Let’s talk about geoengineering
By David Keith/ Cambridge Negotiations on geoengineering technologies ended in deadlock at the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, last week, when a Swiss-backed proposal to commission an expert UN panel…
PetroChina plans to boost capex to $45bn this year
Reuters /Beijing PetroChina, Asia’s largest oil and gas producer, plans to boost capital spending to 300bn yuan ($45bn) in 2019, up 17% from last year, a company filing to the Hong Kong…