All articles by Annabel Cossins-Smith

Annabel is a staff writer across energy titles, with degrees in History and International Journalism.

Annabel Cossins-Smith

Shell plans to sell household energy supply arm

After a review of its home energy businesses across Europe, beginning in January, the UK-based energy giant confirmed that a sales process is already under way.

Norway’s wealth fund to support activist resolutions against Chevron and ExxonMobil

The fund also said it would vote against the appointments of Chevron and Exxon CEOs and other senior management.

India to build smaller-capacity oil refineries amid land purchase issues

Puri also told reporters that new refiners would make petrochemicals and green hydrogen, among other products.

China’s installed solar and wind power capacity hits 31%, exceeding 800GW

China’s installed capacity of wind and solar power reached 820GW at the end of April, accounting for 31% of the country’s total installed power generation capacity.

Report: TotalEnergies uses record profits to fuel oil and gas expansion

The report also rates TotalEnergies’ climate plans as “grossly insufficient” when compared with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Study: Chevron’s carbon offsets are either “junk” or “harmful”

An investigation by NGO Corporate Accountability into oil giant Chevron’s climate pledges concludes that the company uses “junk” carbon offsets.

Boeing boss delivers blow to sustainable aviation fuel hopes

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun has said that sustainable aviation fuels will never be as affordable as traditional fossil jet fuels.

Shareholder revolt: Exxon says net-zero scenario “unlikely”

Exxon said it is highly unlikely that society would accept the degradation in global standard of living required to permanently achieve a net-zero scenario.

Study: top fossil fuel companies owe $209bn annually in climate reparations

Published by environmental research group One Earth, the study is the first to quantify the global economic burden of fossil fuel activity.

Lawsuits against Marathon after fatal fire at Texas refinery

The three wounded workers were performing maintenance work on the site’s Ultraformer-3 unit, a converter of naphtha.