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 […]