Iraq turns to France for help curbing its energy profligacy; Biden’s offshore wind push; Santos’ LNG gamble + ✨MORE✨
💥Energy Flux💥 Wednesday, 31st March 2021
Howdy! Here’s my take on what’s driving the energy transition news agenda today:
Baghdad hires Total to tap Iraq’s vast wasted gas and solar resources
Biden’s offshore wind push strikes balance between ambition and reality
Santos swallows LNG market risk to enable FID at giant Oz gas field
Under the radar – energy transition stories you might’ve missed
Energy perspectives – critical thinking on crucial energy issues
Baghdad hires Total to tap Iraq’s vast wasted gas and solar resources
Iraq is squandering colossal amounts of natural gas and solar energy resources, to the detriment of Iraqi prosperity and the global climate. Now it wants France’s help to turn the dire situation around, and in the process resolve a regional geopolitical headache.
Iraq’s oil ministry has signed a $7 billion mega-deal with French oil giant Total to develop four major energy projects, including associated gas processing facilities at the Artawi oil field in southern Iraq and a 1 GW solar PV project.
Iraq is in the c…
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