Norway Just Triggered An Offshore Wind Energy Boom
Norway proposes to open two new areas in the North Sea with the potential to hold installed capacity of up to 3.5 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind, as Western Europe’s Continue Reading
Can Europe Wean Itself From Fossil Fuels? Its Leaders Are About to Decide
The countries of Europe, which together represent the world’s third-largest industrial emitter, are set to decide on Thursday whether they can leap to a future largely free of fossil fuels Continue Reading
Declassified: The Sino-Russian Masterplan To End U.S. Dominance In Middle East
Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin’s early June 2019 summit in Moscow with People’s Republic of China (PRC) Pres. Xi Jinping seems likely to have a disproportionate influence on the next phases Continue Reading
Major oil companies commit to carbon pricing at Vatican
Some of the world’s major oil producers pledged Friday to support “economically meaningful” carbon pricing regimes after a personal appeal from Pope Francis to avoid “perpetrating a brutal act of Continue Reading
Russian oil exports via Ust-Luga to fall in third-quarter due to contamination
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Third-quarter flows of Urals crude via Russia’s Baltic port of Ust-Luga are set to slide to 2.8 million tonnes from 9 million scheduled for April-June, a plan Continue Reading
Oil group Total hopes new supercomputer will help it find oil faster and more cheaply
Energy major Total said its new supercomputer – which has propelled it to a world ranking as the most powerful computer in the sector – will enable its geologists to Continue Reading
Gazprom says U.S. LNG is not replacing Russian gas in Europe
Russian natural gas producer Gazprom said on Tuesday that U.S. liquefied natural gas was not currently replacing Russian gas on European markets. The United States has become the world’s fastest-growing Continue Reading
Russia defies pipeline threats over gas for Europe
In the extreme conditions of Russia’s far northern Yamal peninsula, 500km from the nearest town, thousands of workers are drilling 1. 7km through permafrost for a contentious resource. The natural gas Continue Reading
Opposition Says Norway Is Buying Itself Out Of Climate Goals
Norway will be increasingly tempted to fund carbon emission cuts abroad instead of reining in its own greenhouse gas emissions in order to reach its ambitious 2030 climate goals, a Continue Reading
A Watershed Moment For Gazprom
In Russia, oil stands for money and gas for power. The extensive pipeline infrastructure connecting gas fields in Siberia with consumers in primarily Europe has been the source of interdependency Continue Reading