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Energy majors accelerate shift to gas in rapidly evolving market

In his exclusive monthly column, Gaurav Sharma highlights how Shell's $70 billion acquisition of BG Group in 2015 signaled a major shift towards natural gas as a cleaner, long-term energy solution, prompting other major energy companies to invest in LNG due to its lower carbon footprint, versatility, and anticipated market expansion, making it a pivotal bridge in the transition to renewable energy.

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Gaurav Sharma

Oil and gas M&A activity appears buoyant in 2024 as crude prices dip

In his exclusive monthly column, Gaurav Sharma explores the surge in mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas industry during 2023, fuelled by profits from soaring energy prices following the Ukraine invasion, and how this trend has persisted into 2024.

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Gaurav Sharma

US is now a global energy superpower giving the market a makeover

In his latest monthly column for Energy Connects, Gaurav Sharma dives deep into how the remarkable transformation of the US from being a net importer to the world’s leading energy producer is ushering in profound market shifts

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Gaurav Sharma

Green hydrogen's fate in a net zero economy hinges on upscaling

In his exclusive monthly column for Energy Connects, Gaurav Sharma catches up with the use case reality of hydrogen and explores what it would take to deploy green hydrogen as a heat source at scale. He writes that green hydrogen accounts for less than 1% of total global hydrogen production. This must change for it to play a key role in a future net zero economy.

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There won’t be a global energy transition without robust battery storage

In his exclusive monthly column for Energy Connects, Gaurav Sharma writes that building and upscaling battery storage is mission critical for expanding the world’s renewable energy footprint

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Transitioning oil market lays bare forecasters’ divergent assumptions

In an exclusive new monthly column for Energy Connects, Senior Contributor Gaurav Sharma writes that oil demand forecasting in the energy transition age is perhaps like an abstract art form. There might even be an equally persuasive case that it is, and always was, an inexact science. The ‘scientists’ would have you believe there are established rules and proven methods deployed in arriving at a particular conclusion on oil demand. For the ‘artists’, demand forecasting may involve some indeterminate creativity and the odd guestimate.

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