(Oil Price) – UK power group Drax has found that wood burnt at its biomass power station in the UK is “highly likely” to have come from environmentally sensitive areas of old forests in Canada, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing internal Drax emails it has seen. A Drax internal review has found that the wood from its suppliers from British Columbia
(World Oil) – Exxon Mobil Corp. has won the right to pump carbon dioxide beneath Texas state waters in the Gulf of Mexico, in what will be the largest concession of its kind in the U.S. The lease granted by the Texas General Land Office will cover 271,000 acres and allow Exxon to bury emissions in geologic rock formations under
(Oil & Gas 360) – The International Energy Administration (IEA) released its Government Energy Spending Tracker late last month detailing the nearly $3 trillion in global investment in decarbonization efforts. The United States accounts for roughly one-sixth of that number with nearly $ 600 billion allocated across six categories (outlined below). The figure equates to an approximate federal spend on
(U.S. News) – LONDON -BP has abandoned a target to cut oil and gas output by 2030 as CEO Murray Auchincloss scales back the firm’s energy transition strategy to regain investor confidence, three sources with knowledge of the matter said. When unveiled in 2020, BP’s strategy was the sector’s most ambitious with a pledge to cut output by 40% while
(Oil & Gas 360) – According to McKinsey and Company’s 2024 Global Energy Perspective, released earlier this week, the world is failing to reach the CO2 reduction targets outlined in the Paris Agreement nine years ago. The study examines the financial, policy, technological, and infrastructure progress on the “1.5 Degree Pathway,” which outlines steps to limit global warming to
(Oil & Gas 360) – Houston assumes its familiar role as global energy leader for four days this week for The Gastech Climatetech & AI Conference Sept. 17-20. About 50,000 attendees and 800 companies from 125 countries are expected to hear about progress on the group’s mission to “foster the development of green molecules and electrons within a new energy
Oil and Gas 360 Publisher’s Note: You can view the EnerCom Denver—The Energy Investment Conference and the Energy Transition and Emerging Technologies Series presenter replays for a limited time. Blue Spruce Operating LLC is the operator of the flagship Dry Piney Helium & Carbon Sequestration Project, located in Sublette County, Wyoming. The project will address growing demand for domestic helium
Oil and Gas 360 Publisher’s Note: Jim Felton with EnerCom sat down with GTO Technologies and spoke with Colorado School of Mines Research Professor Dr. Will Fleckenstein to talk about how his experience as a petroleum engineer led him and his partners to devise new approaches to heat exchange downhole. Together they formed GTO Technology to focus on the hundreds of
Oil Price A United Nations task force is opposing the idea that companies use carbon credits and offsets outside government-regulated emissions markets to claim emissions reductions, according to a draft document seen by the Financial Times. As many companies, including the biggest oil and gas producers and technology giants, are vowing to slash emissions and emission intensity, some of them have
Oil Price The energy transition is showing signs of losing momentum over the past few months. EV sales are slowing, wind and solar capacity additions are not expanding fast enough, and electricity is getting more instead of less expensive. With those signs, others have been flashing red, too. Despite the push against oil and gas, these are here to stay
World Oil (Bloomberg) – Oil giant Occidental Petroleum Corp. clinched a record carbon removal deal with Microsoft Corp. amid the software titan’s push to reduce its expanding emissions. Occidental, which is building a carbon-capture portfolio through its subsidiary 1PointFive, plans to build a fleet of plants that suck carbon dioxide directly from the air. Microsoft on Tuesday agreed to buy
World Oil (Bloomberg) – The Biden administration’s hub to clean carbon from the air in northwest Louisiana is getting company. On Monday, Heirloom Carbon announced that it’s constructing a facility with machines that can remove 17,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually. The startup counts JPMorgan Chase & Co., Autodesk Inc. and Klarna Bank AB among its customers.
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