climate change

The Mammoth project follows the company’s proven Orca model but will scale up the CO2 capture capacity to 36,000 tons per year.

I was arrogant and selfish to dismiss an entire collegial branch of science. After so many years learning and living within the petroleum industry, I decided I should give climatology a fairer hearing.

The long-awaited US Securities and Exchange Commission draft rule should help investors better understand how climate change will affect the companies they invest in, but it is set to increase the reporting burden for corporate America.

Data science plays an increasing role in the fight against climate change. As we use data science to develop innovative solutions to climate change, we should be careful not to replicate, or worsen, existing inequities—or create new ones.

Coal states are questioning whether the Clean Air Act gave the EPA the power to create policy.

It seems obvious that to manage the reduction of methane emissions an operator needs to measure the emissions, report them accurately, and then take action to mitigate them. But what might seem obvious gets tricky: Just what matters, and how can an operator efficiently and accurately measure those factors?

The fresh hires are being made possible by the new infrastructure law aimed at tackling climate change.

Moving the needle with the urgency required to deliver on the Global Methane Pledge announced at COP26 requires us to “lean in” to cut methane emissions that are fully within our control across our operations.

While uncertainties remain for the coming year, there is also optimism for the upstream industry, a welcome prospect following two sharp downcycles in less than 6 years.

COP26 concluded with mixed results. The journey to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement will not be easy, and no one thought it would be. Even before COP26 began, a pledge made in 2009 and reaffirmed at the 2015 Paris meeting was stirring up frustration.