Despite mounting pressures to clean up its act, Big Oil is in reality showing little sign of doing so with genuine commitment and, if anything, is regressing by returning to its core business of finding and producing oil, gas and condensate.
Whilst widely touted as the way to go for heating homes and businesses in temperate and cold regions, the uptake of heat pumps is way behind the ambition, even in Europe and most certainly the lame-duck UK.
While there may be broad agreement on the potential benefit of liquefied natural gas in terms of reducing air pollutants, the impact of LNG in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has clearly become a point of contention.
The CSOV scene is increasingly busy with a newbuild at Damen Shipyards and a German-Norwegian joint-venture are a focal point.
Recently, Joides Resolution (JR), arguably the most famous research drillship of all time, was prematurely retired and is now in the early stages of being stripped of its equipment prior to scrapping.
Decommissioning is a brutal piece of terminology as it basically means removing something from service; rendering it permanently unusable; putting it totally out of reach. No matter how.
Let’s be clear about what “just transition” actually is and why it is the energy revolution now gaining momentum as the core driver of the colossal changes that human society must undergo globally, or else.
Promoting and delivering diversity, equality and inclusion (DE&I) in the workplace is an essential aspect of good people management.
Ammonia (NH3) can be decomposed to produce hydrogen gas without releasing CO2. The ease of transport and high hydrogen density makes it valuable for the green energy industry.
Arguably the bellwether of UK North Sea oil and gas production the BP that we know today grew out of Anglo-Iranian with the name British Petroleum Company formalised in 1954.
A robotics-based geophysical survey of the Dogger Bank D offshore wind farm successfully started last month and will be ongoing until the end of the year.
At various times in my more than three decades of scribbling about energy I have witnessed several windfall tax grabs by both Labour and Tory administrations.
"Make it an epoch – not an episode!"
In June 2021, Team Renewable Arctic Finland launched a research call based on the need for ice research to better understand the sea ice loads affecting offshore wind farms.
Great British Energy will be a publicly-owned energy company, designed to drive clean energy deployment, boost energy independence, create jobs and ensure UK taxpayers, billpayers and communities reap the benefits of clean, secure, home-grown energy.
At last, a pipelay/construction ship ordered a decade ago by Petrofac – the JSD6000 – has been completed in China for Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry shipyard (ZPMC).
If the latest university hydrogen research and development breakthroughs prove commercial, they may radically impact the way the gas is produced industrially.
In May, Energy Voice carried a story about deteriorating safety in the offshore wind industry, citing among other sources, the safety organisation G+ that had just released the data-set for 2023.
The 60 biggest players in global banking have stoked the oil and gas industry to the tune of almost $7 trillion since the Paris Agreement signed in December 2015 at COP21.
Decades ago, householders in temperate or cold countries were told that, by placing simple aluminium foil reflectors behind the central heating radiators in their homes, rooms would be warmer.
The UK oil and gas industry remains of huge importance to the economy, even though it's massively depleted after almost 50 years of oil and approaching 60 years of gas production.
Vattenfall’s recent announcement that it was canning its hydrogen trial at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre offshore Aberdeen has rather riled me.
Norway has yet again demonstrated that it really is a maritime technology leader with ferry company Torghatten Nord placing an order in-country for the construction of the largest hydrogen-fuel cell ships attempted anywhere.
Humankind is at a critical juncture; arguably even the watershed of its existence. If we don’t claw back and rectify the damage to the lump of rock that is our forever home then we will pay the ultimate price.
The Scottish Government likes the idea of getting into bed with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) to drive the development and mass manufacture of floating offshore wind turbines, initially for deployment in Scottish waters.