A “pronounced shift” to renewables, combined with a shift to electricity and hydrogen, led BP plc to reduce its annual forecast for global natural gas as a primary energy source. The annual Energy Outlook was introduced on Monday by chief economist Spencer Dale during a webcast. The economics team led by Spencer Dale used Rapid,…
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Oxy Takes $1.3B for Western Properties, Propels Permian Carbon Capture Project Forward
Occidental Petroleum Corp. on Wednesday padded its bottom line with a big deal to sell a bundle of western properties, while boosting another venture to develop a massive carbon capture facility in its No. 1 Lower 48 play, the Permian Basin. The Houston-based independent, better known as Oxy, agreed to sell some Colorado, Utah and…

ExxonMobil, Partners Discover Carbon Capture Technology for Industrial Sources
A possible breakthrough in technology that could capture more than 90% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from industrial sources has been announced from scientists at ExxonMobil, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Laboratory tests on the patent-pending material, tetraamine-functionalized metal frameworks, could be used to capture CO2 emissions up to six times…

DOE Awards Carbon Capture, Storage Project Funding
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $11.5 million in funding for 12 research projects as part of Phase One of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) FLExible Carbon Capture and Storage (FLECCS) program. To adapt to conditions in an environment with high variable renewable energy (VRE), FLECCS projects awarded funding are to develop…