Graph credit: IEA. By Anders Lorenzen The emissions from methane, a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) with 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2) rose in 2023 despite several pledges and initiatives to reduce emissions. Analysis from the International Energy Agency (IEA) has declared methane emissions in the energy sector remained near a record-high in 2023 – this is […]
By Karin Kirk Oil, gas, and renewables are all growing. US energy production is going gangbusters. Despite persistent false claims that the Biden administration is waging an “unprecedented assault” on American energy, the US is producing energy at a pace never seen before and from a broad mix of sources and locations throughout the country. In fact, the data illustrates […]
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The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pictured at a gas plant in Aberdeen. Photo credit: 10 Downing Street, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via FLICKR. By Anders Lorenzen Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his government are intensifying their support for the fossil fuel industry, and they have thus distanced themselves further from climate action previously pursued by successive UK governments. The government […]
An oil drilling rig in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Photo credit: Reuters / Lucas Jackson. By Anders Lorenzen On Monday, US president Joe Biden approved the controversial $7 billion oil and gas drilling Willow project in the Alaskan Arctic. The US government said the approval was a scaled-back version of ConocoPhillips’ original proposal. But this is unlikely to please climate advocates […]
The CEO of BP Bernard Looney. Photo credit: BP / Graham Trott. By Anders Lorenzen When Bernard Looney took over the helm of oil and gas giant BP (British Petroleum) in 2020 it was with the objective to, once and for all, change its image to one without hydrocarbons. The net-zero strategy unveiled under the leadership of Looney was largely […]
Prelude FLNG, Shell’s floating LNG facility.Photo credit: Shell. By Anders Lorenzen The green credentials of the oil and gas giant Shell are again under scrutiny as its fossil fuel arm has declared a huge 2022 profit. The surge in energy prices, much of it a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has seen the Anglo-Dutch company take its annual profits […]
A wind farm in France, Photo credit: Reuters / Stephane Mahe. By Anders Lorenzen The oil and gas major, BP (British Petroleum) is one of the world’s oil and gas giants. BP has in the past downplayed the role of renewables, but the company has recently been more ambitious in efforts to accelerate the shift away from hydrocarbons and that […]
Two new pipelines being laid in late December 2022. The pipelines will connect an oil and gas field in Arunachal Pradesh to a central gas gathering station in Assam, passing through nearly 20 kilometres of protected forest. Photo credit: Gurvinder Singh. By Gurvinder Singh Nearly 3,000 trees are to be felled during the construction of oil and gas pipelines in […]