Energy Central

AUGUST 23, 2023

Welcome to the SPE Workshop: Production Optimisation in Oil and Gas Assets, a high-quality event where experts, operators, and service companies share their latest developments, successes, and failures on late-life production topics in oil and gas assets as well as for new applications such as CO2 storage, geothermal and energy storage.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The UK’s events at this year’s COP28 summit will be hosted by a Daily Mail events firm that specialises in organising exhibitions for the oil and gas industry, DeSmog can reveal. Dmg events, which is headquartered in Dubai, organises an array of events for the oil and gas industry.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

And it’s happening: Electric vehicles are quickly gaining traction, with the world’s major automakers accelerating efforts to transition some or all of their new vehicles to run on electricity instead of oil. China alone is planning more than 20,000 miles of new oil and gas pipelines. And the era of fossil fuels is hardly over.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

We can't let these major oil companies that are spending most of their capex on oil and gas run a bunch of advertising pretending they're renewable energy companies. Since the 1990s, the world's top five public oil companies alone — Exxon, BP, Chevron, Shell and ConocoPhillips — have spent over $3.6 spent almost $1.4

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

From having the CEO of an oil company preside over global climate negotiations, to getting a consulting firm to push the interests of its Big Oil and gas clients, it doesn’t look like a great start for the conference, set to begin on November 30th in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Credit: Matt Hrkac , CC BY 2.0

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Fossil fuels Methane Carbon-neutral Technology 105

GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

It feels almost quaint to remember way back when "80 by 50" — an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — was a bold goal for a company or government entity to make. Is 'net zero' much ado about nothing? Joel Makower. Tue, 05/11/2021 - 02:11. The "way back when" in this case seems to be around 2014. Pull Quote.

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Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels Carbon Technology 512

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Despite all they're doing to address climate change with both emissions reduction plans, circular economy innovation and consumer awareness, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have been criticized — rightly so, in my mind — for their close ties to the oil and gas sector. Unilever has committed to a "deforestation-free" supply chain by 2023.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

A lot more comes to the surface at an oil and gas well than just the oil and gas, including billions of pounds of waste every day across the U.S., But unfortunately this is the same thing the oil and gas industry’s shadow network of radioactive waste workers have often been told.

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Energy Central

APRIL 28, 2023

After a 4 year hiatus, the Argus Rio Crude Conference is back at the centre of the oil and gas market in Brazil. Latest insight and perspectives from leading industry speakers on the hottest topics: Attend LatAm's biggest commercial crude oil.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

The latter includes all ocean-based economic activity, including fishing, shipping, mining, port operations, oil and gas exploration and energy generation. Helvarg’s group works with a wide range of industries, but not with the oil and gas sector — "they're the problem, not the solution," he said — but there’s good news even there.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Charm Industrial: Turning biomass waste into CO2-dense bio-oil. Charm Industrial is working to reverse the process of crude-oil production — that is, to take the carbon stored in biomass, turn it into CO2-dense biofuel through fast pyrolysis (superheating) and inject it back into the Earth’s crust. The Charm Industrial team.

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Innovation Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 515

ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The updated agenda with the list of speakers and topics can be accessed via this link. The agenda covers a wide range of topics, from collaborating with the oil and gas industry to expand geothermal to the production of green hydrogen and advances in technology that can reduce the costs and risks of geothermal projects.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It was coordinated by the We Mean Business Coalition that advocates for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. A hot topic at the summit: whether countries can agree to a plan to leave behind fossil fuels. Heads of state will gather in Dubai for a United Nations climate conference that begins on November 30th.

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Fossil fuels Global warming Climate change Government 142

EDF + Business

MARCH 30, 2023

To help investors assess and manage risk from oil and gas M&A, Environmental Defense Fund and Ceres developed this guide that presents actionable steps and real-world examples of current industry best practice. Report Highlights There are risks and opportunities associated with oil and gas asset transfer.

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Methane Energy Energy 52

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2023

As a carpenter for a contractor company, Cullen Boudreaux worked in oil refineries throughout Louisiana. “I I think a lot of regular people don’t realize how dangerous it really is,” he said of his experience in the oil and gas industry. He recently took a job as a manager at a restaurant in New Orleans.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

A lobbying and marketing group representing top Canadian oil sands producers paid Google to link its website to hundreds of search terms related to climate change over the past three months, according to advertising data reviewed by DeSmog. billion by 2030 “on an ambitious, actionable plan to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.”

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Climate change Policy Global warming Carbon 93

GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

Transportation emissions represent 40 percent of California's greenhouse gas emissions, and without taking aggressive steps the state will not be able to meet its climate goals. . CARB estimates that 2 million diesel trucks cause 70 percent of the smog-causing pollution in the state. Subscribe here. Pull Quote. Transportation & Mobility.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 22, 2021

Most industrial systems are linear: We extract a resource, which could be anything from timber to crude oil; transform it into a product, often with little concern for the waste produced along the way; then trash that product when we’re done with it. BioEnergy Devco transforms chicken poop into natural gas. Food & Agriculture.

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Waste Waste Natural gas Innovation 496

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And if firms dropped oil, coal and gas companies as clients, would it move the fossil fuel industry even one iota? Will job-seeking law students truly shun firms seen as bad actors? Suffice to say, the jury is out. Lawyers aren’t the only service-sector firms targeted for their climate ties. Follow the money, indeed. Featured Column.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Law Carbon-negative 522

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Today around 5 percent of global offshore oil and gas wellhead production is used as fuel to power offshore production platforms. This creates a business case for big oil to power production operations with renewables, and some companies are beginning to explore it. Three approaches.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It comes as deforestation — and associated greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts — are mounting in many regions of the world. Initially, we focused on palm oil supply chains and urged companies to adopt no-deforestation policies. What follows is a lightly edited interview. Waxman: Yes.

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Climate change Agriculture Biodiversity Policy 450

ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Registration is open for “Geothermal Drilling: Combining Oil and Gas Technology with Geothermal Knowledge.” His experience in both sectors, Oil and Gas and Geothermal, aims to transfer his knowledge of the synergies between the two sectors. Registration for the course can be done via this link.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

gas company, Air Products & Chemicals, announced that as part of Neom it has been building a green hydrogen plant in Saudi Arabia for the last four years. "The hydrogen is a lot more expensive than other fuels such as natural gas. Right now it’s difficult to view this as the new oil. This summer, a large U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Reuters goes a step further, with marketing staff creating custom industry conferences explicitly designed to remove the “pain points” holding back faster production of oil and gas. Presided over by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber , the head of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company, Adnoc, it is the most industry-influenced COP yet.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Organic Carbon 121

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The questions address topics including ensuring the delivery of a sustainable wastewater service by 2050. UKWIR (UK Water Industry Research) is now seeking expressions of interest (EOI) from expert partners or consortiums “able to deliver targeted research projects tackling the biggest issues facing the water sector.”

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

are facing growing pressure to clean up their lobbying activity, with a host of institutional investors this week issuing an urgent call to 47 of the largest greenhouse gas emitters to disclose how their corporate advocacy aligns with the most ambitious climate goals of the Paris Agreement. Greenhouse Gas. Finance & Investing.

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Pollution Policy Climate change Construction 291

GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Despite the temporary decline in greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in May. Chamber of Commerce’s opposition to the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and joined one of the Chamber’s committees to assert its position on climate. billion inserted into the CARES Act. Contributors.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Politics 397

Charged

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

When I tell a new acquaintance that I write about EVs, as often as not their reply is some sound bite that could be a direct quote from an oil industry social media feed. The unreliability of public chargers is a very frequent topic at Charged and every other EV-related media outlet.

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Batteries Fossil fuels Lithium Climate change 122

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

Few energy-related topics are getting as much attention at the moment as green hydrogen. Europe's biggest natural-gas infrastructure firm recently launched a new hydrogen business. million metric tons (Mt) of hydrogen were used for oil refining in 2018 and another 31.5 A hydrogen economy in the U.S. In 2015, the total U.S.

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Hydrogen Natural gas Europe Methane 246

GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

Oil tankers are carrying millions of tons of oil with nowhere to go. To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. . The coronavirus pandemic is a classic Black Swan. Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Over the next decade, HWU experts predict the need for transition engineering will grow across all levels of society, from local communities and small businesses to local and national government, major corporations, renewable energy developers, utility firms and oil and gas companies.

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Energy Energy Fossil fuels Real Estate 246

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Envirotec asked continuous emissions monitoring expert Protea for insight into the topic. Figure 1: With the Protea 2000 duct- or stack-mounted analyser, the exhaust gas passes through a set of sintered metal panels, a proprietary technology said to remove the need for filtering. mass for mass (m/m) to 0.5% Specifying measurement.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Methane North America 130

R-Squared Energy

MAY 19, 2020

With the collapse in oil demand, oil producers and refiners have come under intense financial pressure. These companies have upstream (oil- and gas-producing) assets as well as refining assets, so they are getting hit on both ends. Not far behind are the integrated supermajors like ExxonMobil and Chevron.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Any further financing of oil, gas and coal expansion today is utterly at odds with a net-zero commitment by 2050. "HSBC's net-zero commitment is a bit like saying you'll give up smoking by 2050, but continuing to buy a pack a week or even smoking more," said Becky Jarvis, coordinator of campaign group network Fund Our Future UK.

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Fossil fuels Retail Climate change Investment 521

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Boyd found that the number of known ISDS cases targeting environmental protections has “skyrocketed” in recent years, with nations ordered to pay more than $100 billion in damages to coal, oil, gas, electricity, and mining firms. In 2017, a London arbitration tribunal ordered Nigeria to pay $6.6

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Fossil fuels Climate change Law Investment 118

ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Health Cooling 98

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

California has a program called Transformative Climate Communities (TCC), in which communities most affected by pollution are able to choose their own goals, strategies and projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address local air pollution. Banks don't think the county is a place where people will want EVs. Community Resilience.

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