Energy Voice – Out Loud

This week we’re on Penguin-watch as Shell’s first manned vessel in the North Sea for 30 years heads to the UK. 

Next its comparisons to Dennis the Menace as Woodside is accused of “corporate bullying” in East Timor. 

And we round off with some political challenges as NewMed eyes activity in disputed territory between Morocco and Western Sahara. 

Plus, we got dolled up for a world premiere this week for Amazon’s ‘The Rig’ - so the team take a tangent on their best gigs on the energy beat. Damon, as it turns out, is a big Formula 1 guy… 

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Qatar may be facing criticism over its human rights records amid the World Cup, but one area it is leading the world is in supplying LNG and striking deals for future exports. Germany, meanwhile, is faring better in the football but is struggling to reconcile different visions of its energy needs.

Between these two heavyweights comes ConocoPhillips, who in addition to describing football as soccer, is willing to act as an intermediary.

Hamish runs us through some of the big hopes for exploration drilling in 2023 in the UK North Sea, where hopes are high – but rig rates keep on rising.

Finally, we turn to the home front where the EVOL team has tuned in the new trailer of The Rig, ready for a horror show launch in January.

About Energy Voice

Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.

For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.

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How we think about energy must change to keep up with the realities, of a new world of decentralised power and smart connection.

John Breakell, Partner at EY, and Matt Hastings, Deputy Director at Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund (Innovate UK), join Ed Reed, editor at Energy Voice, to share some insights into how energy is changing – and how we should think about it.

The wide-ranging conversation covers everything from power generation, to distribution, to how consumers and communities can play a part in the move to net zero. There are opportunities galore, it seems, but progress will require the involvement of everyone involved not least in driving innovation.

About Energy Voice

Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.

For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.

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It’s a decom kinda week, with OEUK publishing an array of big predictions around well plugging and upcoming spend. Meanwhile, in honour of the World Cup, there’s accusations of goalposts being moved. 

There are also big plans to make the most of the North Sea’s glut of old wells by using them to produce heat from the earth's core. From a chilly Aberdeen, Allister fills us in on some hot geothermal action. 

And if anyone has a spare $179 billion lying around, there’s big opportunities in Indonesia, where gas is in the good books. Plus, Twitter spats, climate colonialism and much more….. 

About Energy Voice

Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.

For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.

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Inevitably, Energy Voice is that through-line connecting boxer Amir Khan, chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Miami Beach for posterity. 

The much trailed and talked-about windfall tax finally crash-landed this week with the Autumn Budget – we’re on the first reactions and implications for the sector. 

Reabold Resources has come out fighting against a shareholder revolt, knocking out its competitors, backed by one former welterweight world champion. 

And Shell has put its name to a Miami bitcoin bacchanalia – despite allegations of harassment surrounding the conference. 

About Energy Voice

Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.

For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.

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The EV team convene for a special episode on the inaugural AREG energy futures conference in Aberdeen. 

Featuring guests at the event and an interview with keynote speaker Lolita Jackson of Sustainable Development Capital LLP -  a 9/11 survivor – EVOL digs into key takeaways from the event.

About Energy Voice

Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.

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The fifth instalment of our energy storage boxset series sees Energy Voice’s Andrew Dykes joined by BDO corporate finance partner David Bevan and Nicholas Beatty, founder and director of Zenobē. 

This episode sees us take a closer look at the role of finance and investment in the battery storage sector, exploring how investors and companies deploy capital, what makes a bankable project, whether expectations are changing with a maturing market and – perhaps most importantly - what investors expect to see in return. 

The Megawatt Hour is a special podcast series brought to you by Energy Voice Out Loud in paid partnership with BDO. 

About Energy Voice

Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.

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Taking the Road to Adipec show on the road, we tune in to talks at the event, where much of the talk has been on “maximising production, minimising emissions”. 

Joining for the discussion is Tayba al Hashemi, the chair of Adipec 2022 and CEO of Adnoc Sour Gas, with Christopher Hudson, president of DMG events. 

At Adipec this year it was clear that energy is back – if it had ever gone away – but that managing the environmental impact will play a key role in how the industry makes its case to society. 

The Middle East, and Abu Dhabi in particular, have shown a willingness to make the investments required to seize the opportunity. The world must follow. 

About Energy Voice

Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.

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GOLD! Something for everyone on this week’s podcast... 

The weary traveller Ed Reed makes his return from Abu Dhabi’s ADIPEC to give us the main takeaways and the parallels with the COP27 climate summit in Egypt. 

Allister is on Ithaca Energy’s London IPO, the first for a UK E&P company in five years. And would it really be an EVOL episode without mentioning Cambo and the windfall tax? 

Hamish, meanwhile, is on the road to El Dorado with so-called “gold” hydrogen. And keep an ear out for his rendition of an 80s pop classic. . . 

About Energy Voice

Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.

For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.

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The arrival of COP27 in Egypt, and COP28 in the UAE next year, marks an opportunity for a fresh look at some of the global energy challenges – and how to tackle them.

Ibrahim Al Zu’ubi, ADNOC’s SVP Sustainability and Climate, settles down with Energy Voice’s Ed Reed to talk over international hopes and how the world can come together to make progress.

The world has moved on since Glasgow’s COP, with the challenges of energy security front and centre – running the risk of pushing out concerns around sustainability and affordability.

As thinking swings back towards oil and gas, though, we must not forget the focus on managing emissions, which will play a crucial role in controlling climate change.

About Energy Voice

Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.

For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.

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