Friday, October 27, 2023
by Ali Rahman and Leland Lazarus
In the vast, almost haunting expanse of the high Argentine desert, beneath layers of brine and time, lies an element that could easily be mistaken for table salt. Yet, this mineral holds the key to power electric vehicles, cell phones, and the whole green energy revolution. They call it “white gold” – lithium
Thursday, October 5, 2023
by Leonard Hyman & William Tilles*
The Edison Electric Institute, the electric industry lobbying group, appears to be fighting hard against any rapid policy changes. The American Petroleum Institute, representing the U.S. oil and gas industry, is pushing back against pressure to lean into the energy transition. While it is understandable why these groups want to defend their industries, this reluctance to change might undermine legacy companies going forward
Thursday, August 17, 2023
by Paul Messad*
Nuclear power is making a comeback on the EU energy scene after an eventful 2022-2023 year, which according to Paris, reflects an “excellent diplomatic record” for France in defending atomic energy. EURACTIV looks at the bigger picture
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
by Piergiorgio Alessandri and Andrea Gazzani*
The price of natural gas in Europe increased five-fold after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This large shock made the gas market the focal point of heated political debates across European capitals
Friday, May 26, 2023
by Will Collins*
Legislative developments that would be supportive of increased recycling give participants in the European recycling market reason for positivity in the long term, although concern about the short-term outlook sat heavily over the recent Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) conference and trade show
Friday, April 28, 2023
by By Tsvetana Paraskova*
A decline in oil prices squeezed profit margins at China's large oil & gas companies. Sinopec, for Q1 2023, reported an 11.8% drop in first-quarter net profit. CNOOC’s net profit fell by 6.4% year-over-year
Friday, April 21, 2023
by Mohamed Zeeshan*
Last week, a potentially consequential meeting in New Delhi went conspicuously unnoticed in much of the West. On the sidelines of a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s powerful Security Council, met India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a private interaction
Thursday, March 30, 2023
by Charles Wessner and Srishti Khemka*
The Biden administration’s industrial policy action is built around four major legislative initiatives: the American Rescue Plan Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the CHIPS and Science Act
Friday, March 24, 2023
Chemical industry facing 'demand crisis'. China to account for 50% of chemical demand by 2030. US IRA will attract energy transition investments away from Europe
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
by Simon Watkins*
IOCs had effectively been banned from operating in both the north and the south of Iraq. The deal between Baghdad and the KRG about oil sales and its proceeds has not worked out as it should. The FGI’s reinvigorated toughness last year on the KRG’s independent sale of oil from the north indicates that Russian companies lost influence
Friday, February 10, 2023
On December 21, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin took part, via videoconference, in the commissioning ceremony for the Kovykta gas field, the largest in Eastern Siberia (Kremlin.ru, December 21, 2022). The field’s recoverable reserves are estimated at 1.8 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, but they are almost entirely reserved for Chinese consumers
Friday, February 3, 2023
by the International Solar Energy Society*
Solar and wind are being installed at a rate that is three times faster than all other new electricity sources combined. This offers compelling market-based evidence that PV and wind are now the most competitive and practical methods for deploying new generating capacity
Friday, January 27, 2023
by Myra P. Saefong
The European Union will ban imports of Russian oil products early next month, in a move to further punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, but one that could lead to tighter global supplies and higher prices for products such as diesel
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
by Tom Wilson*
Global oil demand is set to rise to an all-time high in 2023 as China relaxes its Covid-19 restrictions in a move that may push crude prices higher in the second half of the year, according to the International Energy Agency
Friday, January 13, 2023
by Costis Stambolis
politicians, Eurocrats and energy analysts. In the aftermath of Russia’s incursion in Ukraine last February the energy scene in Europe has changed radically following the decision by the USA and the EU to reduce Russian energy imports to a bare minimum.Most profound has been the substitution of Russian gas supply with increased LNG imports from the USA, Qatar and elsewhere and higher volumes,via pipeline, from Norway and Algeria
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Both ExxonMobil and Chevron shift their area of focus to the Americas. The strategic spending plans mark the end of an era where oil companies would search globally for oil to add to their booked reserves. Since Covid-19, both oil majors are focusing more on shareholder returns and capital discipline
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
by Andy Colthorpe*
There’s barely time to catch our breath and take a short break before 2023 begins. In the meantime, here’s a chance to look back with the top picks of our content from 2022. As you can see in the list below, the most-read stories this year indicate that there’s a strong interest in the deployment of proven technologies in the form of lithium-ion and pumped hydro
Friday, December 16, 2022
Increase in coal use in Europe is expected to be temporary, with demand falling in advanced economies in the coming years but remaining robust in emerging Asia
Friday, December 9, 2022
by Silvia Amaro*
The European Central Bank is worried about the potential risks to financial markets from an EU-wide cap on natural gas prices.
The bloc has been in intense discussions for several weeks over how to impose a limit on gas prices. The measure — designed to prevent sky-high costs for consumers — is proving controversial for Europe amid an acute energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Friday, December 2, 2022
by Kostis Geropoulos*
Every part of the part of Paris Agreement must be followed properly, the Czech Republic’s Deputy Environment Minister Jan Dusik said in comments to NE Global following the conclusion of the COP27 summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt earlier this month. “We need to see how we can advance on the global goal of adaptation; how we can fulfil the financial requirements and how we can come up with an architecture for losses and damages,” he said
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