Introduction With its critical role as a fuel for heating homes and supplying power stations in an energy system that is increasingly tilting towards electrification, natural gas can be considered the lifeblood of the European economy. In this context, the replacement...
The Argus Media energy markets presentations which take place every year at this time were hosted at the London Hilton and, as always, their senior executives offered a thoughtful and perceptive analysis of past and future energy market trends. While the oil markets...
Thirty years on, the Group of Thirty’s seminal study on derivatives remains the operating guide to which all businesses engaged in derivatives trading should adhere, but all too often have not. Recently, I recorded a Podcast and published an article to review one of...
The announcement, in late November 2022, that Shell was to purchase 100% of Nature Energy Biogas A/S (Nature Energy) for nearly $2 billion capped off a year where biogas/biomethane had cemented itself as part of the mainstream gas industry and no longer a cottage...
The 27th Conference of Parties (COP 27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt at the end of November 2022, saw the usual flurry of activity and intensive negotiations as many parties endeavoured to make...
As reported in the Financial Times last weekend and confirmed by the government’s business department on the 12th October, a price cap on low-carbon electricity generators will be introduced. While the business department’s “Cost-Plus Revenue Limit” announcement,...
