by Andy Walker | Mar 21, 2025 | Insight
The rising carbon cost for European refineries A few weeks ago, the FT published an article entitled “UK Steelmakers face £150mn annual bill from carbon charges, industry warns” and described the proposal to wind down free emissions allowances to industry as an...
by Andy Walker | Feb 11, 2025 | Insight
As outlined in Liz Martin’s insightful April 2024 article, refineries often hold greater strategic value for asset-backed traders than for other acquirers or even incumbent owners. This has driven a trend of major trading houses dominating refinery acquisitions,...
by Paul Finch | Feb 6, 2025 | Insight
With much discussion around Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) as a viable pathway to decarbonise the aviation industry, Dentons and Energex Partners have collaborated to analyse the legal and commercial aspects of the regulatory landscape for SAFs, and how industry can...
by Paul Finch | Dec 17, 2024 | Insight
Consumers of methanol are facing supply challenges yet pricing remains below levels required to support investment in new production capacity. The global conventional methanol market is 113 million tons. Methanol is an essential feedstock for many important chemical...
by Paul Finch | Nov 28, 2024 | Insight
The 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held over the past two weeks in Baku, Azerbaijan, concluded in the early hours of Sunday morning, as negotiators as usual worked frantically against the clock...
by Paul Finch | Sep 6, 2024 | Insight
Last January, we explored the opportunities in the emerging landscape of carbon markets, focusing on the UK and EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and other market-based initiatives like the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and Carbon Capture and Storage...
