In Part I of my interview with James Rockall, the CEO of the World LPG Association, we discussed the major global problems associated with indoor air pollution caused predominantly by cooking. He explained how liquefied […]
How Fossil Fuels Are Saving Lives In Developing Countries
Over the past 20 years, renewable energy usage has exploded around the world. In general, there is a widespread belief that renewable is better for the planet. That is often true. But not always. Last […]
How President Biden’s Executive Orders Impact The Oil Industry
In late 2019, as various candidates jockeyed to win the Democratic nomination for president, Elizabeth Warren made the statement that she would “ban fracking everywhere.” It was just the kind of hollow campaign promise that […]
My 2021 Energy Sector Predictions
When I made my 2020 predictions a year ago, the world was on the cusp of a pandemic that would upend the oil markets. In the process, it upended two of my energy sector predictions, […]
In ExxonMobil’s Defense
Because of its long-standing position as the biggest member of the “Big Oil” club, ExxonMobil is a company many love to hate. So, stories about ExxonMobil’s woes generate a lot of schadenfreude, and hence a […]
How Microsoft Plans To Eliminate All The Carbon It Ever Emitted
In January 2020, Microsoft launched a company-wide focus on sustainability by announcing an ambitious goal and a detailed plan to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they […]
The Best-Performing Energy Companies Of 2020
In 2020, the energy sector got hit with the triple-whammy of a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, demand destruction as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and perceptions that oil is about to […]
How Green Bonds Work
The energy business is one that is extremely capital intensive. Conventional energy companies have capital budgets that are in the tens of billions of dollars. Globally, the International Energy Agency has estimated that total capital investment in […]
The Top Energy Stories Of 2020
Some years there is an energy story so big that there’s no question it belongs at the top of the list. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011. […]
Grading My 2020 Energy Predictions
At the beginning of each year, I make several predictions about the energy sector. You can see those predictions and read the context at Energy Sector Predictions For 2020. There is still a little over a […]