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UK-headquartered energy giant Shell has published in its Energy Transition Progress Report 2022, which shows it has met its climate targets as part of its energy transition strategy and reached a 30% reduction in carbon emissions from its operations by the end of 2022 compared with 2016 on a net basis. According to Shell, the report shows... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) – BP Plc’s Chief U.S. Economist Michael Cohen said the oil industry focused too much on cutting greenhouse gases last year, eroding its ability to keep pace with demand. “2022 taught us that too much focus on the decarbonization agenda led to a mismatch between supply and demand,” said Cohen in a Monday interview... Continue Reading →
(epbr) Global Energy Monitor (GEM) report shows that Latin America has the potential to increase its solar and wind energy capacity by more than 460% by 2030 if all 319 gigawatts (GW) of large-scale new projects announced, in pre- construction or under construction come into operation. This represents an increase of almost 70% in relation... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Governments worldwide need to simplify rules around hydrogen supply to attract investment and scale it up to become competitive enough to substitute fossil fuel use in heavy industry, energy executives said this week. Hydrogen as a potential alternative to natural gas, coal or oil burned in heavy industry or shipping is seen as... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA) will focus on financing large-scale renewable energy projects and evaluating new partnerships with energy companies in the coming years, its chief executive said in remarks released on Tuesday. CEO Jean Paul Prates made the comments a day after the company announced it was evaluating seven offshore wind power projects along the... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - BP hasn't fallen out of love with renewables. It just wants to have more power. CEO Bernard Looney's pursuit of green energy outstripped all rivals three years ago when he outlined a radical blueprint to move away from fossil fuels. Last month he applied the brakes, slowing BP's planned cuts in oil and... Continue Reading →
Subsea 7 has reported an order intake of over $7 billion for the full year of 2022, representing the highest order intake since 2013, with a backlog of over $9 billion, said to have resulted in high revenue visibility for 2024 and beyond. In 2022, Subsea 7 reported revenue of $5.1 billion, which is a... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Portugal's largest utility, EDP (EDP.LS), on Thursday said it would invest 25 billion euros ($27 billion) over four years with the aim of nearly doubling its installed renewable energy capacity to 33 gigawatts (GW) by 2026. In its strategic plan through 2026, EDP said 21 billion euros would be invested by its wind and... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - BP (BP.L) said on Tuesday it plans to invest up to 2 billion euro ($2.12 billion) by 2030 in its refinery in Spain to produce low-carbon hydrogen and biofuels. The British company aims to develop a large plant to produce 2 gigawatts (GW) of green hydrogen, which is produced by splitting water using renewable energy,... Continue Reading →
(OE) DNV said Monday it was launching the second phase of H2Pipe, a joint industry project (JIP) aiming to develop a new code for the design, re-qualification, construction, and operation of offshore pipelines to transport hydrogen—either pure or blended with natural gas. DNV’s Hydrogen Forecast to 2050 anticipates that over 50% of hydrogen pipelines globally... Continue Reading →
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