The 2020 pandemic had a damaging effect on many businesses. The oil and gas industry was particularly negatively impacted. Energy consumption dramatically decreased, prices dropped, and producers were left with product oversupply. As the world moves past the pandemic,...
Scotland is making plans to reach net-zero by 2050, and Royal Dutch Shell, commonly referred to as Shell, is planning to stand by and support this goal. In December 2019, Steve Phimister, Shell UK’s upstream vice president, wrote an opinion piece for Energy Vice...
For most of the world, oil is a necessary part of life. The United States imports much of its oil and the majority of it is converted into other products for people to use, such as gas or heating oil. On average, the U.S. consumes about 19.4...
When we think about the countries that produce oil, Kenya is not typically the country that comes to mind. But after a recent discovery of oil in the Turkana region, Kenya is joining the ranks. Kenya’s government has approved of a plan to extract up to 4,000...
Just this week, oil futures fell again after the United States Energy Information Administrations reported an unexpected build in weekly crude inventory. There was a “surprise” build of 1.671 million barrels, to a total of 521.1 million barrels in a time when...
