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Bringing out the best in your Board
The rise of ESG in the last decade only solidifies the importance to companies of assembling strong boards, putting in place responsibilities and benchmarks, and reporting on their practices.
28 March 2024Read More -
Unveiling Britain’s climate paradox: the hidden carbon emissions undermining the net zero goal
Britain’s journey towards net zero is a narrative rich with milestones and declarations of environmental leadership.
15 March 2024Read More -
The future of Caribbean energy: unlocking the potential through regional cooperation
The energy landscape in the Caribbean has been a tale of pioneering discovery, peak production, and subsequent decline, interwoven with the potential for revival through strategic regional cooperation.
13 March 2024Read More -
A view from Clean Tech Stars 2024
JP Morgan hosted their annual London Clean Tech Stars conference on 6-7 March 2024. This brought together the most innovative first movers in the decarbonisation space.
11 March 2024Read More -
Developments with US carbon capture and storage
On Thursday 22 February 2024 Karl Jeffery, Publisher of Carbon Capture Journal, facilitated an online webinar exploring the developments in US carbon capture and storage.
8 March 2024Read More -
Critical uncertainty and risk in CCS projects
Investing in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology presents a significant opportunity for reducing carbon emissions, particularly if investors are confident in the technology’s scalability and the timely, budget-compliant construction of facilities.
29 February 2024Read More -
Future Energy Partners led Universal to attain ISO 45001 certification status
Future Energy Partners provides Training and ISO standards implementation services to companies irrespective of the sector and size as well as second-party audits in preparation for ISO Certification.
17 April 2023Read More -
Carbon capture is still ‘not commercial’ – but what can be done about it?
Many people are relying on emission trading schemes to make carbon capture and storage commercial, but it may never be enough to justify CCS investment by itself.
15 August 2022Read More -
How should a new oil and gas country develop reserves for the benefit of its people â and its economy?
The top priority for any country developing new hydrocarbon reserves will probably be to get revenue and jobs as fast as possible.
8 August 2022Read More -
What is organisational capability for emissions and what can you do with it?
âLetâs imagine that the future is like this. Quality data about emissions is shared within our organisations as much as we share financial data. The reliability of the emissions data is as good as financial data.
29 July 2022Read More -
Improving your capability for carbon footprint gathering and presenting data for audit
If you want to improve your internal capability for gathering and reporting carbon footprint data, it may be helpful to see how your competitors look like from outside.
22 July 2022Read More -
Flaring & Emissions, Reporting & Plans, for 12 E&Ps
To gather useful data, we have drilled into the Flaring & Emissions Reporting and Plans for: 10 Majors (to be reported on shortly) and 12 E&Ps, namely Aker BP, Diversified Energy, Energean, Enquest, Harbour Energy,
14 July 2022Read More -
E&P carbon footprinting and auditing – how to do it yourself
Future Energy Partners can run workshops for your company to help you determine which emissions are material in your footprint, how to put together your model to measure / assess / reduce them, how to provide evidence to banks and others,
14 July 2022Read More -
Oil and gas suppliers – when asked for carbon data by your customers, how do you work out a plan to provide it?
Oil and gas buyers are increasingly being asked for carbon data from their lenders / investors and for their own environmental reporting,
28 June 2022Read More -
Do you have a plan for your regulatory or decarbonisation capacity building?
There are two particular areas where capacity building is very critical – governments of developing countries which need to regulate and drive their emerging exploration and production industries;
24 June 2022Read More -
The importance of a robust GHG inventory
The UK has reported GHG Emissions since 1990 with the most recent (BEIS) report being âfinalâ to the end of 2020. Reporting is by sector â Transport, Energy Supply, Business, Residential, Agriculture, Waste
10 June 2022Read More -
A net zero trajectory for E&P companies by using the ‘scopes’ in reverse
It may not necessarily require off setting customer emissions (a category of Scope 3 emissions) entirely at the E&P company’s cost. But it can involve commercial services.
10 June 2022Read More -
A model for “immediate term” sustainability
There are – we could say – four main categories of emissions in the immediate term (our operations). Flaring, venting & fugitive methane emissions, fuel combustion and supplier emissions.
18 May 2022Read More -
Guyana â what to do with the gas?
The South American country of Guyana started producing oil in 2020 and production is expected to be 750 kbopd by 2025. With a population of just 800,000
10 May 2022Read More -
How US / EU / UK are focusing on o&g methane
Perhaps the COP 26 event had something to do with it, or the availability of satellite images showing what oil and gas methane emissions are really like. Time will tell if the regulatory environment
5 May 2022Read More -
What North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) (formerly OGA) is looking for from operators in ESG reporting
She wrote, “consistent and high-quality, authentic, ESG reporting, backed up by a strong evidence base and superior quality supporting narrative
5 May 2022Read More -
What happens when emission reporting demands and costs go up?
More and more oil and gas companies are issuing âSustainability Reportsâ. Of course larger companies can dedicate more resources to these reports and some of them areâauditedâ.
5 May 2022Read More -
How can we put a price on CCS projects?
If you are a very large company you are probably already involved in a lot of projects. But for smaller ones, they don’t necessarily need to make a good story for the media or investors. They just want to make a return on their investment.
5 May 2022Read More -
Combining digital and people strengths to reduce operational emissions
It seems clear that reducing operational emissions would do well to draw on the strengths of both people and digital technology.
5 May 2022Read More -
Three models for oil and gas sustainability
Sustainability by definition means something which can be maintained at a certain level. In oil and gas there are many aspects to this – production itself, need to constrain emissions, need to keep temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C.
5 May 2022Read More -
Where do oil and gas companies start with sustainability modelling?
If an oil and gas person talks about their sustainability to an arch-environmentalist, the accusation of greenwash can come back immediately. Oil and gas can never be sustainable, they would say.
26 April 2022Read More -
GHG Emissions Reporting, Ambitions and Accountability of âGassyâ E&Ps disappoints
The Major Oil & Gas companies (Exxon, Chevron, BP, Equinor, Total, Shell etc) have adhered to the proposition that gas will be a major component of the (coming sooner or later to a screen near you) Energy Transition.
25 April 2022Read More -
GHG Emissions Reporting, Ambitions and Accountability Differentiates European Majors
Reporting on ESG by all manner of companies is increasingly attracting coverage in the mainstream press.
10 May 2021Read More -
Reporting Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations
If you are cynical, itâs easy to accuse the Oil & Gas Majors of âgreenwashingâ with respect to the Energy Transition in general and ESG reporting in particular.
9 April 2021Read More -
Striking a Balance in Local Content for East Africaâs Oil Pipeline Project
In East Africa, governments are encouraging Local Content through requirements and targets written in national laws and individual contracts. Will it work?
2 April 2021Read More -
Environmental, Social and Governance Investment – getting it right
Environment, Social and Governance(ESG) has risen to the top of the agenda for investors in the past year. Is ESG reporting by companies meaningful?
11 March 2021Read More -
Energy Losses in Power Generation
Electrification is due to play a major part in the worldâs transition to #NetZero. It is forecast that by 2050, electrical production / consumption will virtually double, with total energy usage increasing by 50%.
26 February 2021Read More -
Electrification of the North Sea Oil and Gas fields
In the first part of this blog series, a bit of time was spent exploring technologies used to date in Electrification of off shore installations.
19 February 2021Read More -
Electrification of offshore installations
In the offshore Oil and Gas world; we have begun to hear terms like electrification of offshore. What exactly does this mean?
29 January 2021Read More -
Gas to Power – Solutions and Opportunities
Our first blog discussed what the future looks like for natural gas, focusing in on the subject of gas flaring solutions, and the role that flaring has in the production of greenhouse gases (GHG).
22 January 2021Read More -
Gas flaring solutions – Carrot or Stick
The road to a low-carbon world is the challenge of the next decade…. Energy Transition is the most commonly used word to talk about the future of energy” (Yergin, 2020)
15 January 2021Read More -
Digital Twin Technology – why it is so important
Virtual Reality(VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) can be applied to âDigital Twinsâ of process facilities.
25 December 2020Read More -
Hydrogen â Hype or Hallelujah
Currently never a day goes by without Hydrogen being mentioned in our crusade to a NetZero future â but what is it? why is it so special? is it truly a panacea?
17 December 2020Read More -
Methane Emissions – Monitoring and Measuring
âSatellites, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and new sensor technologies offer oil & gas companies the opportunity to accurately monitor and measure methane emissions,
11 December 2020Read More -
Gas will be key to Energy Transition
For many generations of explorers, advocating that there should be a deliberate search for gas might seem like heresy –
27 November 2020Read More -
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Ships
The oil and gas industry is under pressure to develop increasingly granular methods to measure its carbon dioxide emissions, including from its suppliers as well as its own operations.
20 November 2020Read More -
What is the future of oil & gas exploration
BP released its 2020 Energy Review in September this year, first in a webinar and then on its website where it provided a useful overview.
13 November 2020Read More -
Decarbonisation â facts versus fiction
Many countries and companies are now taking on the challenge of becoming net zero GHG/CO2 emitters by 2050. Increasingly, the cost of solar, wind and geothermal are very attractive compared to crude oil and gas developments.
17 October 2020Read More -
Eyes In The Sky Are Tracking Methane Emissions
On Christmas Eve, 1968, NASAâs astronauts got our first view of the Earth rising over the surface of the moon. The photograph they took, called âEarthriseâ became one of the most influential in history
17 October 2020Read More