The Report looks in-depth at how India’s role on the global oil market may evolve over the period through to 2030. It examines investment plans for the refining and petrochemical industry and how these developments may impact Indian crude and product net trade. The Report looks at energy transition trends …
Britain should steer clear of using deep injection wells in shale oil and gas "fracking" and take extra steps to reduce the technique's environmental and health effects, an industry-funded task force examining the sector said on Wednesday. The oil and gas industry uses deep injection wells to dispose of wastewater …
The Church of England will divest from fossil fuel extraction and implement new green guidelines The Church of England has adopted a new climate change policy which will see it divest from coal mining and oil from tar sands. The Church’s governing body, the General Synod, voted overwhelmingly to support …
Petty legal filings. Diversionary ballot measures. Counting abstentions as no votes. These are just some of the tactics U.S. oil companies used this spring to quash efforts by investors to win the right to nominate climate experts for board seats. Led by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and proposed …
High cost and mismatch in demand and supply makes country reliant on fossil fuels despite setting a goal to have half its energy needs met by renewables, reports Straits Times Leandro Leviste, 21, has taken leave from university to start a solar panel company – so much does he believe …
Luanda — The director of the legal office of the Environment Ministry, Miranda Kiala, last Wednesday, in Luanda, exhorted oil companies to be careful and rigorous in the disposial of oil residues on land, in view of what is outlined in the Executive Decree number 97/14, which is to enter …
Democratic Republic of Congo lawmakers have adopted a new hydrocarbons code that the country hopes will allow it to draw more benefits from its expanding oil sector. The Central African mining nation pumps 25,000 barrels per day, accounting for just 11 percent of its export revenues, although exploration off the …
BEIJING - China's energy output is expected to grow while energy consumption will dip in 2015, according to a report released on Monday. Domestic crude oil output is expected to grow by 0.4 percent to reach 217 million tons in 2015, while refined oil and natural gas output will reach …
BP’s 2015 edition of its Statistical Review of World Energy highlights how significant changes in global energy production and consumption have had profound implications for prices, for the global fuel mix, and for global carbon dioxide emissions. The 64th annual edition of the review highlights the continuing importance of the …
New natural resource discoveries, oil and gas provide a substantial opportunity to fast-track human development progress, with updated estimates indicating that revenues to be developed could contribute between 9 per cent and 31 per cent of additional government revenues, a new report shows. The report, by African Development Bank and …
The Climate Justice Programme (CJP) and the Heinrich Böll Foundation are proposing a new and innovative source of finance: a fossil fuel extraction levy paid by those 90 entities responsible for two-thirds of global carbon emissions. The third and updated edition of the Carbon Majors report, now titled "Big Oil, …
Alberta, the Canadian province whose carbon-intensive oil sands are the largest source U.S. oil imports, said on Tuesday it would have new climate change regulations in place by June 30, when the current rules expire. Shannon Phillips, the environment minister for the province's newly elected left-wing government, said in a …
Investor resolutions urging corporate leaders to be more environmentally friendly in how they run their businesses are being rolled out at a record pace this year for the energy industry. Just don’t expect them to pass. Proposals meant to nudge Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. into nominating directors with …
Oil companies are ratcheting up their involvement in the debate over climate change as governments, activists, churches and some big investors gear up for a global summit on the issue at the end of the year in Paris. The stated goal of the summit is to keep man-made warming limited …
By the end of this month, the government is expected to announce a national long-term energy plan for 2030 that will include a “best energy mix” scenario — the formula for the various ratios of oil, coal, LNG, nuclear power and renewable energy that will be powering Japan in 15 …
Thirty-two energy companies led by Russia's Gazprom account for almost a third of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions if the burning of all the coal, oil and gas they produce is taken into account, a study said on Wednesday. Total emissions linked to the companies rose 1.3 percent from 2010-13, …
Royal Dutch Shell and its peers in Europe are slowly waking up to the existential danger to their operations emerging from policies designed to limit climate change. Europe's largest oil companies are banding together to forge a joint strategy on climate change policy, alarmed they'll be ignored as the world …
Environment activists are taking legal action against the government for refusing to release environmental assessment documents for petroleum exploration off the coast of South Australia. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is challenging the decision in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal after it sought access to an environment plan and …
Seven environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging safety rules issued earlier this month for trains carrying oil, arguing the regulations are too weak to protect the public. The groups, including the Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity, charge that the rules, issued on May 1, will allow …
Environmental groups and experts hit out at the US government on Tuesday following its announcement that the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell would be allowed to resume offshore exploration and drilling in the Arctic’s American waters. Unforgiving conditions in the Arctic’s icy waters not only make the chances of a spill …
Academics, civil engineers and architects from three of six funds worth £23bn vote to sell off coal and high risk oil and gas – but lawyers, vets and other engineers vote against divestment Academics, civil engineers and architects in Denmark have voted in favour of their pension funds selling off …
