(By Oil & Gas 360) – The global energy transition is reshaping investment, policy, and technology. Solar and wind continue to break installation records, battery storage is expanding rapidly, and governments are investing billions of dollars to accelerate decarbonization. Headlines often suggest the world is moving quickly beyond fossil fuels. The data tell a more measured story. Despite extraordinary
(Oil & Gas 360) By Greg Barnett, MBA – Hanging in my office is a Bowles map published in 1783, the year America secured its independence. Among the rivers, settlements, mountains, and boundaries of a young Republic appears a single word in western Pennsylvania: Petroleum. The resource was known. The opportunity was not. For nearly eighty years, the hydrocarbons beneath
(World Oil) – International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol pressed the European Union to revisit its moratorium on drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic, challenging the bloc’s long-held opposition to new fossil fuel development there. “I support the Commission to give a very close look at this issue because it is extremely important for the European energy security,”
(Oil Price) – Despite historic political headwinds against the global decarbonization effort, clean energy spending continues to see a meteoric rise around the world. The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Investment 2026, published in May of this year, projects that of the $3.4 trillion dollars that the world will spend on energy investments this year, $2.2 trillion will go to clean
(By Oil & Gas 360) – The global energy system is being pulled in two directions at once. On one side, major oil companies are scaling back spending on low-carbon projects, marking the first decline in transition-focused investment since 2017. On the other hand, the latest geopolitical shock tied to the Iran conflict is reinforcing how exposed the world remains to
(Investing) – PARIS – U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright gave the International Energy Agency on Thursday a one-year deadline to scrap its support of goals to reduce energy emissions to net zero or risk losing the United States as a member. European countries played down the threat at the agency’s biennial meeting and restated their commitment to pursuing cleaner fuel. In
(Investing) – A federal judge declared unconstitutional a 2021 Texas law restricting state investments in companies seeking to rely less on fossil fuels or boycott that industry. In a decision made public on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Alan Albright said the law violated First Amendment free speech protections because it punished businesses for speaking about fossil fuels and associating with organizations that
(Oil price)– The COP30 climate summit is ditching an earlier draft of a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels, according to the latest draft of negotiating texts at the global gathering in Belem, Brazil. Many countries at COP30 have mobilized and supported a so-called “roadmap” to transition away from fossil fuels. But the latest draft document of the summit has
(Oil Price) – Republican lawmakers on Monday moved to declare Coal Week, amplifying the Trump administration’s push to expand U.S. coal output and keep aging plants online, the Washington Times reported. The resolution coincides with new executive actions to “reinvigorate” coal, including directives signed in April to boost production and preserve baseload capacity, as outlined in a White House executive order. The message to
(Oil Price)– Power generation from clean energy rose globally in the first half of the year, led by the renewables champion China, while power output from fossil fuels remained flat from a year earlier, due to rising gas and coal use in Europe and surging coal generation in the United States. China’s clean energy generation jumped by 14% to a
(EIA) – In 2024, the United States consumed about 94 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) of energy, a 1% increase from 2023, according to our Monthly Energy Review. Fossil fuels—petroleum, natural gas, and coal—accounted for 82% of total U.S. energy consumption in 2024. Nonfossil fuel energy—from renewables and nuclear energy—accounted for the other 18%. Petroleum remained the most-consumed fuel in the
(World Oil) – (Bloomberg) – The U.S. may depart the International Energy Agency without changes to forecasting that Republicans have criticized as unrealistically green, President Donald Trump’s energy chief said. “We will do one of two things: we will reform the way the IEA operates or we will withdraw,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said during an interview Tuesday. “My strong
