French oil giant elects to Mac-ron more of carbon cutting goals

Influential shareholders in France’s biggest hydrocarbon extractor TotalEnergies have welcomed its decision to accept a timetable for stripping carbon from its activities. Before its AGM...

Humber Hub Blue:  Lincolnshire H2 plant for Shell and Uniper

Two fossil-legacy energy giants are to co-operate on a blue hydrogen plant at the Killingholme gas power station in Lincolnshire. Uniper, the hydrocarbons-based generation business...

Cambo revived, as Ithaca Energy pays £ 1.5 billion for owners Siccar Point

The controversial Cambo oil and gas field 75 kilometres west of the Shetlands re-emerged as a probable extraction operation today, as Ithaca Energy bought...

National Grid to pocket £4.2 bn in cash and financing, as its exit proceeds...

National Grid has found a buyer for Britain’s gas pipes and meters, as it continues its retreat from the energy source en route to...
LNG shipments drive down UK power prices

US to source 15 Bn cubic metres of LNG for EU this year, Biden...

Russian supplier Gazprom’s grip on European gas consumers weakened further this morning as US President Joe Biden confirmed to EU Commission head Ursula van...

Every Shell director faces ‘world first’ legal suit over environmental risk

Environmental lawyers Client Earth are suing all 13 directors and non-executive directors of Shell, alleging personal and corporate breach of UK company law in...

Shell ‘sorry’ for Russian trade, pumps country’s profits towards Ukrainian refugees

Oil supermajor Shell today announced its intention to exit petrol retailing in Russia and cease trading in the country’s oil and gas, as its...

Frack Britain back to the future, demands backbencher, as oil hits $130 a barrel

The Conservative leader of the hard-right Net Zero Group this morning announced a co-ordinated call for a revival of Britain’s fracking industry, in response...

UK sanctions chill Gazprom; loses LSE fund-raising rights, & customers look elsewhere

The British government has stripped Putin-dependent energy giant Gazprom of its right to raise funds on London’s globe-spanning capital markets.  Meanwhile its UK arm...

BP and Shell sever Putin ties, as Total retains them

Divestment by western fossil fuel majors from partnerships in Vladimir Putin's Russia stumbled onwards today, with observers questioning continuing involvement by TotalEnergies and Exxon. Shell,...

Schtum on prices, Centrica boss says UK gas supplies ‘unaffected’ by Putin’s Ukraine attack

British Gas’ eleven million consumers will face no interruption to gas supply after Vladimir Putin unleashed his duplicitous attack today on democratic Ukraine, Centrica’s...

New oil digs in North Sea ‘marginal’ in lowering UK consumer bills, say government...

New exploration licences granted by the government to boost declining North Sea oil production will have ‘at most a marginal effect’ in lowering bills...

Germany suspends Nord Stream 2, in reaction to Putin’s Ukraine provocation

Chancellor Olaf Scholz this morning halted Germany’s licencing of the completed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in reaction to Russia’s recognition of two rebel...

BP’s $ 7.6 bn profit renews calls for windfall tax

BP today followed its hydrocarbon ‘sister’ Shell last week in announcing record sky-high profits, renewing politicians’ calls for a reluctant chancellor to impose windfall...

Shell’s 2021 profits quadruple

As 25 million British consumers awaited news this morning of a new Ofgem-sanctioned price cap set push energy bills up an eye-watering 50%, fossil...

Exxon-Mobil says it’ll reach Net Zero by 2050, but still won’t commit on most...

The global oil major with the longest history and the deepest pockets in covertly seeking to discredit climate science has apparently come in from...

Crisis latest:  Windfall tax on oil majors, say Labour: Keep Net Zero measures & tax carbon,...

The ‘temporary’ energy price crisis of suspected No.10 party-attender and beleaguered premier Johnson has ground on into its fourth month, with an appeal from...

Turquoise is latest shade of ‘clean’ hydrogen, says HiiROC  

After blue, green, pink and grey, surging hydrogen’s expanding palette of colours welcomed another hue this morning, reflecting the gas' spectrum of ever-increasing varieties,...

‘Natural’ gas without climate warming? Brit pair partner in its promotion

Two technology pioneers in clean synthetic gas allied today in pursuit of perfecting, then selling hydrogen and other intermediate low-carbon fuels fabricated from waste. EQTEC...

Celtic seas: Sturgeon opposes Cambo, as its minority owner Shell snaps up Irish floating...

After months of equivocation, Scotland’s First Minister this week confirmed her opposition to drilling the vast Cambo oil field, but stressed the final decision...