By Paul Sankey
Published on September 30, 2020 at 5:45 PM
It was an especial pleasure to see a leader speaking at a podium with a TOTAL command of the current complex situation, with a complete grasp of facts and figures, a near-term and long-term vision that is both pragmatic and exciting. The fact that the entire presentation was delivered with charm and wit in the speaker’s second language, made it all-the-more impressive. I am of course speaking of TOTAL’s CEO Patrick Patrick Pouyanné , at the […]
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By Paul Sankey
Published on September 20, 2020 at 11:37 AM
Good day! A chill September wind is blowing across Brooklyn Heights, as summer officially ends and fall very much starts. The market is feeling chills too, with COVID continuing to present a major challenge to policy-makers globally. We remain extremely frustrated by the excessive lock down requirements in New York despite effectively zero COVID. With massive testing, less than 1% positives are being found, and essentially no deaths (statistically speaking). This past week we quoted […]
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By Paul Sankey
Published on September 16, 2020 at 8:25 AM
The US government Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has projected that some 2,000 offshore wind turbines will generate 22GW of power by 2030 for the US. Its hardly surprising that BP has bought into this spectacular growth, which fits right into their low carbon shift in the 2030 timeframe. Reminder, in a September 10th press release, BP announced it would pay $1.1bn for a 50% stake in Equinor’s 2 GW Empire Wind, located off […]
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