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British Airways to become first UK airline to offset carbon emissions on flights within the UK
From January 2020, British Airways will become the first UK airline to offset carbon emissions on all its flights within the UK. All customers flying within the UK next year on flights operated by British Airways will have the carbon emissions from their flights...
Accra’s waste collection is One of 7 Best Climate Projects in the World
Today, C40 and Bloomberg Philanthropies announced the seven winners of the 2019 C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen. Representing the most ambitious and impactful projects by mayors to tackle the global climate...
Industry must remain productive while targeting zero emissions
There definitely is a lower-carbon model in the oil and gas industry’s future, agreed executive participants in the opening session of SPE’s 2019 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. The session of four panelists and moderator got underway in Calgary Monday...
ExxonMobil contributes $350,000 to Imelda Relief in Beaumont, Greater Houston
Exxon Mobil Corporation, the largest publicly traded international oil and gas company, has said that it will donate $350,000 to United Way and the American Red Cross to support local flooding relief assistance associated with tropical storm Imelda in the Beaumont and...
Peel Environmental submits plans for plastics to hydrogen facility
Peel Environmental, working in partnership with Waste2Tricity, has submitted plans for a waste plastic to hydrogen facility at its 54-hectare Protos site near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, UK, which would help reduce fossil fuel consumption and create jobs. The £7 million...
Big Oil CEOs talk climate change, methane emissions and the future of natural gas
One of the opening events of Climate Week in New York offered a rare sight -- nine bosses of some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies in one room. The occasion was the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, an industry-supported organization whose members set...
Gas, renewables and CCS must work together to secure a rapid energy transition, DNV GL reports
Gas and variable renewables will be the only energy sources for which demand is higher in 2050 than today. However, they must work together alongside greater uptake of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to secure a rapid energy transition, according to a new forecast of...
Saudi oil attack: Ghana must scale-up protection of oil facilities – COPEC
The Government of Ghana must increase its surveillance on all the oil installations in the country in order to guard the facilities against possible attacks, Duncan Amoah, Executive Director of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC-Ghana), has said. Mr Amoah...
BP CEO says he’ll sell oil projects to meet climate targets
BP’s CEO plans to sell some oil projects and curb the development of others to align its business with the Paris accord, the latest sign climate concerns are starting to impact the investment decisions of the world’s largest fossil fuel producers. Senior BP executives...
Shell leads Big Oil in the race to invest in clean energy
LONDON (Bloomberg) - Major oil companies are poised to do a record number of clean-energy deals this year, with Royal Dutch Shell leading a group of European companies that are well ahead of their U.S. rivals. The data compiled by BloombergNEF underscore the...
Nigeria: Fuel scarcity returns, marketers demand release of N413bn subsidy
Some accredited oil subsidy marketers on Thursday said the failure of Federal Government to release the approved N413 billion subsidy debt was disrupting their fuel importation schedule. The marketers who spoke in an interview with the media said that they were...
T3 thermal plant conundrum
The Takoradi 3 (T3) thermal plant, with an installed capacity of some 132 megawatts, has come under intense scrutiny over the past few While some have attributed the challenges bedevilling the installation to the type of machines, others have blamed the gods of the...
Atlantis Gets $83 Million for World’s Largest Tidal-Stream Farm
Atlantis Resources Corp., a Morgan Stanley-backed maker of tidal turbines, raised about 50 million pounds ($83 million) to start building the world’s largest tidal-stream power plant in Scottish waters. The money was raised from the U.K.’s Department of Energy...
