Today marks the first day of the second half of 2020, and as I’m sure you will all agree, a lot has changed in six months. If you can all cast your minds back to 1 January 2020, how many thought you would be where we are now? Stories of Coronavirus being detected in China […]
Energy Connections
Reports of clean energy’s demise are greatly exaggerated
As the Covid-19 pandemic enters its sixth month, we are starting to get more data on the impacts that efforts to contain the disease have had on the global economy. Much has already been stated about the fall in energy demand globally caused by the lockdown of world economies. The fall in oil prices – […]
No North Sea, no problem
The dramatic decline of oil prices over the past couple of years has led to the re-evaluation of investments into UK North Sea oil and gas production. Potentially untapped resources that remain on the British continental shelf are in areas of more challenging geographies and environments. Even before the commodity crash, many were anticipating a […]
LNG in the Med and topsy-turvy price trends
Observers of the French and Spanish gas markets over the last few months cannot have failed to note a mounting challenge to the traditional price structure in the region. LNG – both in terms of quantity and price – has played an important role in the recent shift. While historically Spanish AOC hub prices have […]