Sustainability
The two companies said they will evaluate the possibility of a joint venture to develop a direct air capture hub in South Texas, with XRG considering investing up to $500 million.
The plant at Heidelberg Materials’ cement facility in Brevik, Norway, has captured its first 1,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide.
The times are changing and so are our industry’s prospects, as hydrocarbons are now recognized as cardinal to affordable energy security for the conceivable future. But, in avoidance of suspense, the answer to the headline question is “absolutely.” Here we look at the rationale why.
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Years in the making, the program sponsored by the US Department of Energy is celebrating its latest geothermal energy breakthrough in southwestern Utah. -
The companies are combining their technologies in an effort to help upstream oil and gas operators monitor, report, and reduce emissions.
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This paper presents efforts and details of a pilot trial that was planned and executed to demonstrate the concept of repurposing existing wells into electricity generators instead of abandoning them.
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Heightened focus on methane emissions management spurs a new conceptual framework to aid in determining the duration of detected methane emissions, data that may be useful to stakeholders responsible for measurement-informed emission protocols.
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The geothermal company will use organic Rankine cycle (ORC) technology, which does not require steam to generate electricity.
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In 2022, Hess and the government of Guyana announced an agreement for the company to purchase 37.5 million REDD+ carbon credits directly from the government, one of the largest private-sector forest preservation agreements in the world. This paper explores the analysis of decarbonization pathways, voluntary carbon markets, and individual carbon offset projects that ul…
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Kampala is drawing now on international experience to sidestep the “oil curse” before first crude flows from its Lake Albert developments.
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If optimized to scale, fast fission reactors could play a role in reducing emissions in field operations by producing carbon-free electricity.
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Almost half of the energy companies Citi lends to are lacking plans to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, the fourth-largest US bank said in a climate report.
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Texas has become an early hot spot for geothermal energy exploration as scores of former oil industry workers and executives are taking their knowledge to a new energy source.
