The oil and gas industry is a multi-trillion dollar industry that’s dominated our world for over a century. From fueling our vehicles and planes to heating our homes, the industry has become the largest source of energy. Frequently it’s a hot topic even in politics,...
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...
The global dependence on oil as a vital energy resource for various functions that support human life is on a significant rise. The US alone consumes about 22% of the total global petroleum product consumption. A host of other countries, including China, have an...
Interest in energy independence is at an all-time high in the United States, but hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, is an oil and gas extraction technology with which few people are familiar. Americans are more likely to know about the myths associated with...
Most people barely ever take the time to think about oil, and when they do, they just see it as a basic product used to produce energy. The reality is that oil is used in thousands of applications every day. Here are some surprising facts about where oil comes from...
