Ten Themes for Energy in 2020
…form in the global gas industry (LNG), a theme that increasingly excites us, to drive the energy transition. Theme #8 is our oil outlook, where we expect markets may be…
Shell: the future of LNG plants?
Shell is revolutionizing LNG project design, based on reviewing 40 of the company’s gas-focused patents from 2019. The innovations can lower LNG facilities’ capex by 70% and opex by 50%;…
Fuel Cell Patents: twenty years of progress?
This data-file tabulates the numbers of patents filed into different types of fuel-cells, from 2000-2020, globally and in key geographies: China, Japan, Korea and the US. $499.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to…
Solar power: the economics?
…efficiency doubling over the next decade, which will help to drive continued solar deflation. We also have models covering the levelized costs of wind, hydro, nuclear, gas, coal, biomass, diesel…
Climate science: staring into the sun?
…gas, increasing the portion of solar radiation that is absorbed in th atmosphere. At its 1980 concentration level, of 330ppm, CO2 was contributing 1.0 Wm-2 more ‘radiative forcing’ than in…
Can carbon-neutral fuels re-shape the oil industry?
…CO2 per annum, enough to accommodate 85Mbpd of oil and 400TCF of annual gas use in a fully decarbonized energy system. The cost is competitive, well below c$50/ton. It is…
If a tree falls in a forest…
Carbon-offsets, specifically forestry projects, can sequester 15bn tons of CO2 per annum, helping to accommodate 400TCF of gas per year and 85Mbpd per oil in a fully decarbonized energy system…
Energy Costs of Constructing Solar Assets
…a c10x energy-return on energy-invested and CO2-intensity of 90kg/boe (for contrast, average oil is c440kg/boe and average gas is c350kg/boe). The data-file contains calculations and data on different, individual studies,…
Ten Themes for Energy in the 2020s
We presented our ‘Top Ten Themes for Energy in the 2020s’ to an audience at Yale SOM, in February-2020. The audio recording is available below. The slides are available to…
Platform supply vessels: what contribution to CO2?
This data-model calculates the contribution of Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) to an offshore oil and gas asset’s emissions profile, as measured in kg/boe. Our base case estimate is 0.1kg/boe for a…