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01 02 2021 | 10:40

Rating agency S&P warns 13 oil and gas companies they risk downgrades as renewables pick up steam.

Firms including Woodside, Chevron, Shell and Exxon Mobil, told they could be downgraded within weeks Rating agency S&P has warned 13 oil and gas companies, including the some of the world’s…

27 12 2020 | 07:38

UK oil and gas industry submit revised strategy for net-zero requirements.

The Oil & Gas Authority has submitted a revised strategy to the UK Parliament, featuring a range of new net zero obligations for the UK. The revised Strategy reflects the ongoing global energy…

30 11 2020 | 07:57

San Francisco bans natural gas use in new construction projects.

San Francisco will ban natural gas infrastructure in most new construction, reinforcing previous building electrification measures adopted in California’s fourth most populous city. The city’s Board…

26 11 2020 | 16:06

German utility to test feasibility of transporting pure hydrogen in existing gas pipelines

European utilities company E.ON is converting a natural gas pipeline in Germany, which is part of the public supply system, to pure hydrogen. Part of its new research and development project “H2HoWi…

19 11 2020 | 09:39

No more natural gas in new San Francisco buildings starting next year.

“The world is changing,” Keighran said. “I came to see that buyers will want this. Buyers will expect this. The mind-set of the younger demographic is to want and demand this. “This is ahead of its…

16 11 2020 | 07:36

Climate crisis: Lancashire fracking site ‘leaked emissions equivalent to 142 transatlantic flights’

Around 4.2 tonnes of methane leaked from site during one week of monitoring in January 2019. Fracking for shale gas in the UK has, for now, come to a halt with little interest from the government in…

09 11 2020 | 07:55

Scrap gas pipeline in eastern Med due to climate cost, says report.

Gas discovery at centre of Turkey-Greece dispute will ‘make world even less safe’. The giant gas reserves at the heart of a bitter political standoff between Greece and Turkey could lead to the same…

30 10 2020 | 12:06

Dubai unveils plans to construct Coal-Fired Power Plant.

In the southern desert of Dubai in the UAE, a new wonder is rising but it’s not another skyscraper as the region is famed for, instead, a coal-fired power plant is underway. The construction of the $…

23 10 2020 | 11:32

Role of gas as a bridge fuel in U.S. ‘just got shorter and narrower’—S&P

The natural gas revolution that has led to a power plant building boom and kept electricity prices low may be nearing its end, as the coronavirus pandemic has reduced demand for the fuel and…

10 10 2020 | 09:14

Narrabri gas project: do we need it and what's at stake for Australia's environment?

The NSW independent planning commission is due to hand down a decision on the proposed gas development at Narrabri. Here’s what is at play. The New South Wales independent planning commission is due…

10 10 2020 | 08:14

UK 'will take 700 years' to reach low-carbon heating under current plans.

Energy experts say record rise in new gas boilers installed shows UK going in wrong direction Ministers must come forward with stringent new plans for low-carbon heating, as targets to insulate…

05 10 2020 | 11:49

Oil and Gas Companies Indirectly Bailed Out by the Fed.

A new report shows the U.S. government bought more than $350 million in bonds issued by oil and gas companies and induced investors to loan the industry tens of billions more at artificially low…

05 10 2020 | 10:21

Nigeria's pioneering gas flaring plan risks going down in flames.

UGHELLI, Delta State, Nigeria (Reuters) - Jonah Gbemre often has no electricity, but he says his home is permanently lit at night by the flames of waste gas being “flared” near his home town in…

22 09 2020 | 11:11

Gas industry donates millions to Australian political parties.

Records show relatively even contributions to Coalition and Labor as Morrison government announces ‘gas-led recovery’ of economy. Some of the biggest players in Australia’s gas sector have made more…

19 09 2020 | 10:24

Australia's untapped gas reserves could unleash three years' worth of global emissions.

Pinning hopes of economic recovery on fossil fuel comes at huge environmental cost, analysis warns. Australia’s untapped gas reservoirs could lead to three years’ worth of global greenhouse gas…

19 09 2020 | 10:22

Japan’s Sumitomo Corp. exits U.S. shale gas industry.

Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp has sold all its stake in the Marcellus shale gas project in the United States for an undisclosed sum, it said on Monday in a statement. Sumitomo bought a 30%…

15 09 2020 | 10:40

Campaigners start legal challenge to UK's $1bn grant to Mozambique gas project.

Friends of the Earth seeks judicial review, saying aid deal contradicts climate commitments. Environmentalists at Friends of the Earth will mount a legal challenge against the government’s decision…

31 08 2020 | 08:34

EPA Has Granted More Than 3,000 Pollution Monitoring Exemptions to Oil and Gas Industry.

Environmental regulators across the country granted more than 3,000 requests from polluting oil and gas operations, government facilities, chemical plants, and other facilities to stop pollution…

19 08 2020 | 06:41

ExxonMobil warns of possible 20% writedown in oil and gas assets.

Exxon Mobil Corp. warned that low energy prices may wipe as much as one-fifth of its oil and natural gas reserves off the books. If depressed prices persist for the rest of the year, “certain…

16 08 2020 | 08:20

Calls for Woodside to pay $200m to clean up moribund Timor Sea oil site it ran until 2016.

Review recommends ‘trailing liability’, where owners remain liable for decommissioning sites after selling them. Energy giant Woodside Petroleum is facing calls to pay more than $200m to clean up a…