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June 13, 2018
A group of the world’s biggest oil companies asked a judge to throw out New York City’s lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for costs related to climate change.
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June 01, 2018
Shell is attempting to market some of its natural gas as clean energy, packaging it with credits for eco-friendly projects that offset pollution coming from the fuel.
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May 31, 2018
ExxonMobil’s Darren Woods says his company is at the center of a delicate balancing act between those who want a cleaner environment and those seeking economic growth that depends on rising energy demand.
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May 23, 2018
ExxonMobil Corp. plans to reduce the amount of natural gas it burns as waste by a quarter within two years to reduce climate-changing emissions, something long demanded by environmental groups and activist investors.
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May 18, 2018
Some of the world’s biggest fund managers are increasing pressure on oil companies, expressing fear that a lack of action over tackling climate change could risk their investments.
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April 18, 2018
Total deepened its foray into power and gas retail, underlining a strategy shift as European oil majors transition to cleaner energy.
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April 17, 2018
The world’s biggest oil companies, for long typecast as villains of climate change, are seeking to reinvent themselves as environmental pioneers.
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April 16, 2018
Ben van Beurden has the same message for activists seeking to bind Shell to emissions cuts, and investors concerned about the merits of shifting away from O&G: Trust me.
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March 29, 2018
Fifty-five years after starting natural gas production from Europe’s biggest field, the Netherlands have signed its death warrant.
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March 22, 2018
Day 2 of Gulf Publishing Company's Eastern Mediterranean Gas Conference (EMGC 2018) in Cyprus kicked off with a keynote presentation by Dr. Symeon Kassianides, chairman of The Natural Gas Public Co. (DEFA) of Cyprus.
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March 16, 2018
Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Eni SpA may have misled regulators in Nigeria by wrongly attributing oil spills to theft and sabotage in order to avoid paying compensation to affected communities, rights group Amnesty International said.
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February 16, 2018
Three of the world’s biggest oil companies called on Norway to help maintain funding for carbon capture and storage technology that is stagnating amid concerns about whether it can ever be cost-effective.
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February 02, 2018
With its money-losing refineries producing the least fuel in 27 years and only a handful of private partnerships announced since Mexico’s energy reforms, sealing a $2.6 billion venture with Mitsui & Co. will come as a relief to Petroleos Mexicanos.
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May 18, 2017
The Alberta Securities Commission is reviewing an environmental group’s request to halt a $1.28 billion share sale that Kinder Morgan Inc. plans to help finance the expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline.
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May 12, 2017
Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s shareholders approved a proposal Friday to require the oil and gas exploration company to report on the business impacts of climate change, marking the first time such a proposal has passed over the board’s objections.
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May 10, 2017
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement provided the latest details on its efforts to improve oil spill response technologies at the Arctic Oil Spill Response Research and Technology Workshop April 26.
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May 02, 2017
BP Plc’s net debt rose again in the first quarter, reaching the highest level in at least a decade as payments linked to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill countered an almost threefold jump in profit.
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May 02, 2017
Lundin Petroleum AB has announced the release of its Sustainability Report 2016.
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April 28, 2017
The American Petroleum Institute’s Global Industry Services department (API Global) released two new safety standards: API Standard 16AR - Standard for Repair and Remanufacture of Drill-through Equipment and API Standard 18LCM - Product Life Cycle Management System Requirements for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries.
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April 28, 2017
President Donald Trump is moving aggressively to expand offshore oil drilling and to reconsider rules that safeguard the activity.
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April 27, 2017
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. dropped the most since August after the oil and natural gas explorer said it will shut more than 3,000 Colorado wells as part of an investigation into a deadly house explosion.
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