DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Read time: 4 mins Environmental lawyers have made a formal complaint against oil giant BP , claiming its latest advertising campaign is misleading consumers about its commitment to tackling climate change. Tags: bp Client Earth

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The case charges BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute with conspiring together and through front groups to run “tobacco-industry-style campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products.”

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2020

Tags: Dentons EJM Associates AFL-CIO IBEW International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers U.S. Unlike those calling for a Green New Deal, though, this alliance supports increased fracking for oil and gas, as well as other controversial technologies that critics say prop up fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2019

BNP Paribas Asset Management calculates that oil majors like Exxon, BP and Shell will have to produce petrol from oil at $10 a barrel (the current price is $58) to compete with electricity on price, while for diesel, it says, oil can cost no more than $19 a barrel. Tags: electric vehicles BNP Paribas renewables investment cars

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2020

Tags: exxon shell ShareAction Follow This as you sow bp

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Tags: Covering Climate Now 2019 fracking advertising spin ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) bp Now, fossil fuel companies are reckoning with a different communications challenge: convincing their investors that the future of oil and gas companies is bright … or at least bright enough.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Lightsource BP. Ever since BP first took up its now expanded investment in U.K.-based Former SolarReserve CEO Kevin Smith joined as Lightsource BP's CEO for Americas this year. BP recently upped its stake in the partnership to 50 percent, making the operation a bona fide joint venture. In the U.K.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

Oil and gas supermajors including Shell and BP are using UK influencers to push false solutions to the climate crisis and manufacture a more family friendly image, DeSmog can reveal. but did not tag Shell, nor mention his commercial relationship with the brand. This was also not the first time that Campbell had partnered with Shell.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 5, 2024

But let’s chit-chat about something that often tags along with investing: dividends. BP plc – BP p.l.c., You’re probably eyeing those green stocks, and I hear you. We all want to back companies that are kind to Mother Earth, right? Now, what’s the big deal with dividends when it comes to green stocks?

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. Following the oil spill, BP’s stock price plummeted ~50% over two months. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. Estimates suggest the company’s clean-up costs alone were ~$90 billion.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. Following the oil spill, BP’s stock price plummeted ~50% over two months. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. Estimates suggest the company’s clean-up costs alone were ~$90 billion.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 11, 2024

Among the major oil and gas firms that have made direct investments into geothermal energy startups and projects include BP, Chevron, and Devon Energy. Lowering the cost of geothermal energy well drilling Drilling geothermal energy wells comes with a hefty price tag.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 30, 2021

Further investigations found that Chevron, Shell, BP and other oil giants likewise knew that their products threatened to render the earth’s climate uninhabitable. Please help amplify this message by sharing it and tagging @CoveringClimate and using the hashtag #CCNow. In short, it wasn’t just that Exxon knew. They all knew.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The huge price-tag for this unprecedented intervention lays bare the cost of our reliance on volatile and expensive gas. Liz Truss has decided to let the likes of Shell and BP enjoy the billions they're making from the enormous suffering caused by the climate and energy crisis, leaving UK taxpayers to foot the bill.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

We will use our benchmark projects - BP Lingen refinery and Helios green hydrogen facility in Saudi-Arabia - to provide an estimate of the required electrolyzer capacity. At BP's Lingen refinery, they plan to install a 50MW electrolyzer, which is expected to produce 24 metric tons of green hydrogen per day. Who could do it?

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

We will use our benchmark projects - BP Lingen refinery and Helios green hydrogen facility in Saudi-Arabia - to provide an estimate of the required electrolyzer capacity. At BP's Lingen refinery, they plan to install a 50MW electrolyzer, which is expected to produce 24 metric tons of green hydrogen per day. Ørsted (and friends).

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

The majority of Denbury’s revenue comes from EOR, which involves injecting CO2 into the ground in order to extend the life of oil fields, and ~60% of the price tag likely covered the value of Denbury’s oil production rather than the CCS infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2020

On March 18, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management ( BOEM ) held a lease sale for 397,285 acres of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico that attracted bids by companies such as BP , Chevron, Shell, Total, BHP Billiton and a slew of smaller independent drillers.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The Energy Futures Initiative is advised by a board chaired by former BP CEO Lord John Brown Madingley and includes former CIA director and Cheniere Energy board member John Deutch, and J. Also not mentioned: NRG’s Petra Nova project doesn’t actively capture carbon, despite its $1 billion price tag.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Read time: 7 mins Delaware, the home state of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, announced on Thursday , September 10 that it is taking dozens of major oil and gas companies including BP , Chevron, and ExxonMobil to court over the rising costs of climate impacts such as sea level rise and coastal flooding. Like other U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Shortly after Shell started to back Fisher, BP came onboard as well, and suddenly the IEA started to have some real impact. Internal BP marketing documents leaked to Drilled in 2020 revealed just how caught off guard the industry was by the youth climate movement. The biggest threat? The movement’s authenticity.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The hearing, which featured testimony from the CEOs of ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, and the American Petroleum Institute, was part of the U.S. The following examines a limited slice of what BP, Shell, Exxon, and API have been privately saying about carbon capture since 2016. Another document furthers those concerns.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Clark is well known for his legal wrangling defending BP and keeping the oil giant from taking responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon fiasco which is an ongoing environmental catastrophe. Trump hired Clark in a bid to advance his anti-environmental agenda and minimize his legal losses.

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