Leading cross-sector executives pledge to triple global nuclear capacity by 2030
Nuclear energy must be part of the mix to meet the world’s growing power demand, senior industry heads said at a major global conference.
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Energy leaders call the US a prime investment market
The Group CEO of ADNOC Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber and several of his energy industry peers named the US as their key strategic investment destination at a major global conference.
US Energy Secretary and oil industry leaders call for a realistic approach to the energy transition
A leading Trump Administration official and the chiefs of several energy companies demanded a realistic approach to the energy transition and investing in oil and gas, at a major energy conference in Houston, US.
India’s oil demand growth offers abundant opportunities for global suppliers
A quarter of global oil demand growth in 2025 is expected to come from India. That gives New Delhi an immense sway in the international energy markets, writes Gaurav Sharma in his exclusive column for Energy Connects ahead of India Energy Week 2025
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
