Roundtable discussions with leaders from major energy companies reveal a lack of pressure from regulators or investors and a strong belief that fossil fuel use will continue for years to come.
BP, Shell and Equinor all produce widely used scenarios of energy’s future.
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Companies need to reset their mission so that profitability is a means to an end - the organisation’s social purpose - not an end in itself is essential.
Pumps at a Shell fueling station in Tatarstan, Russia, Nov. 20, 2017.
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The world’s largest energy companies are used to doing business in risky places with difficult partners. But with war in Ukraine, preserving their reputations outweighs profits.
South African marine biodiversity is unique and valuable and the Wild Coast is an especially rich part of that heritage.
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To date, courts have often been reluctant to interfere in what is viewed as an issue best left to policymakers. These recent judgements, and others, suggest things are changing.
Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil and gas industry is the province’s largest contributor to the economy and will be critically important to its future.
Shell’s proposals to decommission its four Brent platforms are a test case for North Sea industry. But here’s why decommissioning is not what it’s cracked up to be.
A singular focus on divestment from oil and gas companies to counter climate change could be detrimental.
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The broad principle of companies, government bodies and universities divesting from oil, gas and coal companies is sound. But its application needs more sophistication.
The oil fields in the Niger Delta are regularly sabotaged by people living in communities surrounding the fields.
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Shell has abandoned oil exploration offshore Alaska for now but a variety of trends are driving the energy industry to take a fresh look at Arctic drilling.