Methane emissions in the crosshairs for energy industry
Tackling methane emissions should be an easy way to make progress in tackling climate change – and point to how willing the energy industry is to the energy transition.
Tackling methane emissions should be an easy way to make progress in tackling climate change – and point to how willing the energy industry is to the energy transition.
Neptune Energy has again been awarded Gold Standard status by the United Nation’s Environmental Programme (UNEP) in recognition of its plans to curb emissions.
Developing oil and gas projects can be done in an environmentally sound fashion and can play a critical role in changing a country’s finances, according to Uganda National Oil Co. (UNOC) CEO Proscovia Nabbanja.
In the more than a quarter century since Shell Plc left Ogoniland in southern Nigeria, oil has continued to ooze from dormant wellheads and active pipelines, leaving the 386-square mile kingdom’s wetlands shimmering with a greasy rainbow sheen, its once-lush mangroves coated in crude, well-water smelling of benzene and farmlands charred and barren.
Activists have mounted demonstrations at Shell’s headquarters in London and The Hague, in protest over the killings of the Ogoni 9 in Nigeria, 25 years ago.