The global COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant role to play in Big Oil’s shift towards cleaner energy. Three of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies are planning to become net-zero carbon emitters by 2050. Tech will not only help Big Oil become more efficient–it may turn out to be instrumental for their net-zero ambitions. Something unthinkable is happening in Big Oil, and it’s not the demand slump or the spending cuts or the layoffs. With the exception of the demand slump, we’ve seen all this before–more than once, in fact. No, what’s unthinkable is that Big Oil appears to be planning to stop being Big Oil. It’s not a joke. Three of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies are planning to become net-zero carbon emitters by 2050. And, as Energy Intelligence noted recently in an industry analysis, there are only two ways to attain the net-zero […]