The global energy transition march would now appear to be unstoppable despite mounting, negative geopolitical threats - of which US president Donald Trump’s headline-grabbing, avowed hostility to the development of low carbon energy alternatives is surely top of the heap.
Trying to assess the state of the global energy market is not easy.
In April, the US launched a tariff war on many of its large trading partners, as well as a baseline 10% tax on imports from other countries.
John Swinney has said there is no "surprise" in Donald Trump's calls for oil drilling in the North Sea to be incentivised, insisting that his government is "absolutely committed" to its net zero targets.
The US president urged Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government to support “modernised drilling”.
As global energy markets shift, travel company ATPI has appointed Aberdeen-based Zara Higgins as its head of energy, a role previously held in Houston, Texas.
Global share prices have fallen after US president Donald Trump introduced sweeping tariffs on a vast range of the country’s trading partners.
Subsidies are of fundamental importance to global energy and food production.
OK, so here’s the problem. If, as a consequence of Trump's effective withdrawal of support for Europe against aggression by Russia in particular, the UK and the other countries in NATO are being obliged to spend more on defence, how can they also afford to spend money on achieving so called net zero and a just transition?
AGCC calls for the UK to end the windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas, but environmental group Uplift criticises industry "profiteering".
US President Donald Trump has been invited to the Humber to see the positive impact offshore wind has had on the region following his disparaging comments.
As President Trump embarks on his second term, leaders in the global energy sector are examining how potential shifts in immigration policy might impact their workforce and operations.
Uncertainty caused by the new Trump administration in the US could see green energy investors divert to Scotland and the UK, the Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes has said.
US President-elect Donald Trump said the UK is "making a very big mistake" in relation to its North Sea energy policies.
A victory by Republican Donald Trump in the US presidential election threatens $1 trillion in energy investments and future support for low-carbon energy sources, according to a Wood Mackenzie report.
Politicians are vowing to roll back green policies and downplaying climate change ahead of key elections on both sides of the Atlantic, casting doubt on whether countries can maintain momentum in the transition away from fossil fuels.
A prominent north-east offshore wind farm made millions of pounds last year in spite of the impact of Covid-19.
A new study from Aberdeen University has put the spotlight on the cost of excluding wind farms from the most scenic areas of the UK.
With Covid-19 continuing to impact the profitability of the supermajors, Ano Kuhanathan, sector advisor at trade credit insurer, Euler Hermes, argues that now is the time for the supermajors/Big Oil to start spinning off their renewables divisions.
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to tackle climate change, as part of which the US will move away from funding fossil fuel-based energy internationally.
China’s biggest offshore driller is being targeted in the final days of President Donald Trump’s administration for its activity in the South China Sea.
The Joe Biden climate plan, Energy sector experts breakdown what to expect as the new US President looks to change the country's climate change stance.
Shell will push for the reversal of President Donald Trump’s rollback of methane emissions rules and the introduction of carbon pricing when Joe Biden moves into the White House next year.
President-elect Joe Biden plans to push for the most progressive climate policy the U.S. has ever had, aligning the world’s second-largest carbon emitter with a growing group of nations aggressively tackling global warming.
The next U.S. president will have to come to terms with “the will of the Iranian people” and end the economic war against the Islamic Republic, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a speech Thursday. Bluster aside, there is a kernel of truth to his prediction — and President Donald Trump’s Iran policy may make negotiations easier for President-elect Joe Biden.