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As BP’s profits plunge, analysts say we are entering the “end-game” for oil

You cannot underestimate that seismic shift going on as investors, often drunk on big oil profits, now just face uncertainty and loss. The oceans are awash with bobbing tankers full of oil, with no market to sell them. The industry is paralysed by the pandemic.

New Permian Methane Leakage Study Confirms What We Already Knew

A new study published last week confirms what we already knew about oil and gas in the Permian Basin. It's an unmitigated disaster.

Oil and gas news & insights: Week of April 20

OCI is producing weekly news and resources updates for allies as part of our response to the COVID-19 crisis.

COVID-19 fallout threatens “long-term survivability” of Big Oil

Big Oil faces a new reality where "everything has changed.” Even their long-term survival.

Trump’s Earth Day gift to Big Oil: We will buy your near worthless product

There is no doubt we are at a historical moment with the industry in deep structural and financial trouble and where a post-COVID-19 recovery could see a radical shift away from oil and into a just transition into renewables. But will that happen?

A resilient recovery means a managed decline of oil and gas production — here’s how we get there

This week the seemingly impossible happened: U.S. oil futures prices went negative for the first time in history. What happens next is up to us.

Ten years after Deepwater Horizon “another deep-water blowout is inevitable”

On the 10th Anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, “If anything, another disaster is more likely today as the oil industry drills deeper and farther offshore."

As Shell spins a commitment to “net zero” by 2050, critics wave red warning flags

Shell, a company often vilified for being complicit in human rights abuses in Nigeria, of rampant pollution and ignoring the risks of climate change for decades, belatedly wants us to believe it is central to the climate fight.

Oil and gas news & insights: Week of April 13

OCI is producing weekly news and resources updates for allies as part of our response to the COVID-19 crisis.

To advise on green stimulus, the IEA needs to upgrade its own climate toolbox

A toolbox isn’t very helpful if even the best tool in it only gets you halfway to the repair you need to make. As the IEA prepares a special report on economic recovery, it must close its own climate credibility gap.