A rug over Bombay High fire?

Electrifying offshore platforms targets a tiny fraction of the oil industry’s emissions

Configuration & location of some of the older installations mean that electrification will prove to be prohibitively expensive

Making India energy-independent by 2047: A look at PM Modi’s blueprint

The PM’s remarks come a few months before India is projected to miss its goal of reducing crude oil import dependence by 2022

Nigerian government sets up fund to clean up Ogoniland oil spill

Amnesty International has warned that Ogoniland's environment may never be restored

Italian oil major ENI lobbied for more fossil fuels despite 1970 internal report warning of dangers; faces lawsuit

The climate lawsuit, if brought to the court, will be the first of its kind in Italy

Dangote launches Africa’s biggest oil refinery — 4 ways it will affect Nigeria

It is the first privately owned crude oil refinery in Nigeria

But where does the engine oil go?

Such an oily feeling

A myth is broken

Sub-marine sleuths

Bunker 2

Snippets

Huge slick

Pipeline for peace

Alaska oil ban repealed by the Senate

Firm dealing

ONGC flouted safety norms: CAG

Many accident cases were not reported by the public sector company as required under the law

Eating oil

Fertilisers accelerate growth not only in plants but also in certain microbes that feast on oil

Sinking prices

Oil prices in India are reaching for the sky even as international oil prices hit an all-time low

MONEYMAKERS

Oil palm plantations proved to be a disaster in Mizoram — is Assam next?

Oil palm plantations must be strictly prohibited in the region to protect its rich biodiversity

Shell’s Arctic drilling support ship heads back to dock

Hole in the icebreaker vessel’s hull to be repaired at Oregon, US

Park vs pump

BRAZIL

Failed Net Zero pledges: Just 0.3% renewable energy produced by 12 European Big Oil companies in 2022

Only 7.3% ($7.09 billion) of companies’ 2022 investments went towards green energy, rest 92.7% ($87.95bn) spent on fossil fuel …