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Key topics: #NOCs
An evergreen chronology of Energy Flux articles about national oil companies and the economies they support
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Key topics: #Gas #LNG #Methane #Flaring
An evergreen chronology of Energy Flux articles about methane in its gaseous and liquefied forms, and how it is wasted
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Key topics: #Hydrogen #Ammonia
An evergreen chronology of Energy Flux articles about the many hues of H2, NH3 and other e-fuels
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Energy Flux yearbook: 2020
Deep-dives written from the dour depths of lockdown
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Beyond Exxon: Why a desperate mega-merger with BP might finally make sense
Political, environmental and market factors are conspiring to haul an unlikely transatlantic tie-up into the realm of the possible
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Jumping on the bandwagon: EDF embraces hydrogen and carbon capture in bid to keep Sizewell C relevant
Adding electrolysis and CO2 removal to newbuild nuclear plants is an innovative flexibility hack. But it won’t move the needle on their abysmal economics.
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System change or climate change: Why Biden must abandon his bipartisan instincts
Unless he somehow overhauls the regressive power structures forged by Trump, US president-elect Joe Biden’s progressive energy and climate agenda risks being undone by resurgent Trumpism in 2024.
Lipstick, meet pig: US frackers’ hopeless ESG beauty parade won’t wash with investors
American shale oil producers are unleashing a torrent of ESG obfuscation on capital markets in a desperate pitch to green investors. It is destined to fail.
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The economic imperative: Recession and social injustice imperil the energy transition
The pandemic revealed the human cost of chaotic decarbonisation achieved by tanking the economy. To keep its social licence, the energy transition must decouple GDP growth from CO2 emissions
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No more gaslighting: Let’s get real about carbon capture and storage
The energy debate must move on from comforting ‘net zero’ targets based on wishful thinking around CCS, or risk undermining the quest for solutions that might actually work.
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The shape of change: Incipient megatrends point to multiverse of intertwined energy transitions
Energy transition forecasts depict competing market forces melding with chaotic socioeconomic factors. Hard conclusions are scarce but volatility is a given, so agility will prove key to survival
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Policy miasma: Failure to crack down on methane emissions thwarts EU’s ‘clean hydrogen’ push
The European Commission is putting hydrogen at the heart of the EU Green Deal without first driving the most potent climate-warming gas out of the fuel required to produce it.