Thursday, December 19, 2024
Looming copper shortage could slow the global energy transition- oil and gas 360

Looming copper shortage could slow the global energy transition

Oil Price The pace of the energy transition could be slowed by a looming shortage of copper, analysts and top copper producers say.   “There is going to be a very significant shortage in copper,” Richard Adkerson, chairman and CEO at U.S. copper producer Freeport-McMoRan, the world’s largest listed copper miner, told the Financial Times. The decarbonization drive will increase the

BlackRock raises $4.5 billion for climate fund amid fossil fuel criticism-oil and gas 360

BlackRock raises $4.5 billion for climate fund amid fossil fuel criticism

Oil Price BlackRock said it had raised $4.5bn (£3.97bn) for a new climate infrastructure fund today as it looks to ramp up investment in the net zero transition amid criticism of its decision to continue backing oil and gas firms.   The world’s biggest asset manager, which has around $8tn under its stewardship, said it had secured backing from public

Nord Stream rupture may mark biggest single methane release ever recorded - UN- oil and gas 360

Nord Stream rupture may mark biggest single methane release ever recorded – UN

US News The ruptures on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline system under the Baltic Sea has led to what is likely the biggest single release of climate-damaging methane ever recorded, the United Nations Environment Programme said on Friday.   A huge plume of highly concentrated methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent but shorter-lived than carbon dioxide, was detected

Activist investor: shell must do more to curb emissions- oil and gas 360

Activist investor: shell must do more to curb emissions

Oil Price An expected drop in Shell’s net greenhouse gas emissions is not aligned with the Paris Agreement and with a Dutch court order for the now UK-based supermajor to slash emissions much more by 2030, activist investor Follow This says. A recent report from Australia-based Global Climate Insights showed that Shell’s net emissions, after CCUS and offsets, are forecast to be

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The U.S. oil executive making a big bet on combating climate change

Investing Publisher’s Note- Talos Energy presented at EnerCom Denver last month. Click to view their replay. The chief executive of a small U.S. oil company has jumped to the forefront of the energy industry’s greenhouse gas reduction efforts, recruiting high-profile firms to his vision of striking it big by selling access to carbon storage developments.   Tim Duncan, the founder

Biden issues offshore drilling leases under climate mandate- oil and gas 360

Biden issues offshore drilling leases under climate mandate

World Oil (Bloomberg) — The Biden administration on Wednesday issued oil and natural gas leases to companies that nabbed the Gulf of Mexico drilling rights in a government auction later invalidated by a federal court.   The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it had accepted 307 winning bids from that November 2021 sale, dispelling lingering uncertainty about how the

U.S. to spend more than $500 billion on climate over a decade under three laws, study says- oil and gas 360

U.S. to spend more than $500 billion on climate over a decade under three laws, study says

US News The U.S. government will spend more than $500 billion on climate technology and clean energy over the next decade under three recently enacted laws, an analysis by non-profit RMI found.   The tally is based on this month’s Inflation Reduction and CHIPS acts and last year’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Together they fund climate-related research and pilot

Tech industry helps oil companies pump more, belying climate pledges- oil and gas 360

Tech industry helps oil companies pump more, belying climate pledges

World Oil (Bloomberg) — It’s been a blockbuster summer for major oil companies. Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. posted record profits thanks to surging energy prices. The new U.S. climate bill includes concessions to oil and gas companies.   There are other, quieter beneficiaries: Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and the other cloud-services companies that are increasingly responsible for the computing horsepower behind

OEUK issues new guidance for oil and gas producers to reduce key greenhouse gas- oil and gas 360

OEUK issues new guidance for oil and gas producers to reduce key greenhouse gas

World Oil The leading trade body for the UK’s offshore energy industry, Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), launched new guidelines to help oil and gas companies reduce methane emissions from the production of oil and gas. The guidelines come as OEUK implements its Methane Action Plan (MAP) – a core deliverable of the 2021 North Sea Transition Deal between the UK Government and

U.S. Energy Dept eyes $165 mln investment in geothermal, oil and gas group- oil and gas 360

U.S. Energy Dept eyes $165 mln investment in geothermal, oil and gas group

Nasdaq The U.S. Department of Energy is planning up to a $165 million new investment in a geothermal power initiative that would utilize expertise from the oil and gas industry to unlock energy resources and move away from fossil fuels. Geothermal energy, which taps into heat within the earth, currently makes up less than 1% of the U.S. energy mix.

Biden expected to announce executive action on climate Wednesday- oil and gas 360

Biden expected to announce executive action on climate Wednesday

World Oil (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden will announce executive action to address climate change Wednesday, as he continues to weigh a broader emergency declaration that would allow him to marshal sweeping powers against “global warming.” The potential emergency order that Biden is mulling would unlock broad executive powers to propel clean-energy construction, restrict oil drilling and curb fossil fuel

Google and Chevron invest in nuclear fusion startup that’s raised $1.2 billion- oil and gas 360

Google and Chevron invest in nuclear fusion startup that’s raised $1.2 billion

CNBC Google and Chevron are part of a $250 million funding raise announced Tuesday for TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion startup with an unconventional strategy that has now raised a total of $1.2 billion. Nuclear fusion is often referred to as the holy grail of clean energy because of its promise of generating nearly unlimited emission-free energy without the equivalent harmful, long-lasting radioactive waste