Energy Sector Research Highlights
Driving ESG in Ghana’s mining industry
Edward Koranteng, CEO, Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF)
In this Global Platform video, Oxford Business Group speaks with Edward Koranteng, CEO, Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), on Ghana’s mining industry. While Ghana is Africa’s largest gold producer...
The Report: Abu Dhabi 2023
Energy Sector Analysis
Abu Dhabi’s ongoing transition from a fossil fuel-dependent economy to one driven by clean energy marks a significant shift. Hosting the Arab world’s first nuclear power plant and the largest single-site solar...
The Report: Misrata 2023
Energy, Construction and Infrastructure Sector Analysis
As a member of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and 48.4bn barrels of proven crude oil reserves – the most in Africa – and 1.5trn cu metres of proven natural gas reserves, Libya is...
Driving Saudi Arabia's economic transformation: Unleashing growth and innovation across strategic sectors
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 blueprint for socio-economic transformation is capturing international attention. Beyond high-profile projects and events, strategic cohesion and societal support are facilitating...
Special Reports on the Energy Sector
Growth & Recovery Report
Report: Is Trinidad and Tobago prepared for its green energy transition?
In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and on the back of high global energy prices, Trinidad & Tobago is set to grow over 50% faster than the global average for 2022. A balanced approach between maintaining...
Covid-19 Recovery Roadmap
Report: What is the post-Covid-19 outlook for GCC chemicals and petrochemicals?
The GCC chemicals and petrochemicals industry demonstrated considerable resilience in the face of Covid-19 and oil price fluctuations. With economic diversification a leading concern for GCC...
ESG Intelligence Report
ESG: Indonesia’s role in ASEAN’s energy transition
Indonesia’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) and UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) priorities centre on the affordable transition to renewable energy, socio-economic growth...

Report: Is Trinidad and Tobago prepared for its green energy transition?

Report: What is the post-Covid-19 outlook for GCC chemicals and petrochemicals?

ESG: Indonesia’s role in ASEAN’s energy transition
How the energy sector can capitalise on renewables in support of Oman Vision 2040
Talal Al Awfi, Group CEO of OQ, and the OQ Leadership Team
In this Global Platform video, Talal Al Awfi and the OQ Leadership Team discuss Oman’s net-zero goals and outline the country’s potential to boost power generation from renewable resources, including wind...
Energy Sector Analyses
OverviewHow COP28 will create opportunities in Abu Dhabi’s energy sector
Despite Abu Dhabi’s history and reputation as a major oil exporter, the emirate is integral to the UAE’s ongoing transformation from an economy dependent on fossil fuels to one fuelled by clean energy. This clean-energy transition has already seen Abu Dhabi host the Arab world’s first nuclear power plant, as well as the largest single-site solar power plant in the world at the time when it was built. With the COP28 UN Conference on Climate Change taking place in the UAE in November and December 2023, the event looms large on the...
Interview
Awaidha Murshed Al Marar, Chairman, Department of Energy (DoE)
On producing green energy and reducing carbon emissions
Analysis
Abu Dhabi aims to be a leader in hydrogen amid shift to cleaner energy
Hydrogen has a key role to play in helping the world to meet its net-zero targets. Its primary uses are for power generation, energy storage and transportation, including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). It is also seen as a means to decarbonise the world’s heavily polluting industries such as steel, aluminium and cement. The National Hydrogen Strategy seeks to produce 1.4m tonnes per annum (tpa) by 2031, consisting of 1m tpa of green hydrogen – produced via renewables – and 400,000 tpa of blue hydrogen, which relies on carbon capture...
Analysis
How emerging markets are navigating the rising cost of solar energy
With high energy prices and supply chain disruptions creating shortages of key renewable energy components and materials, emerging markets are reassessing how to build out utility-scale solar power to accelerate their energy transitions. After more than a decade of decline, the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels has risen around the world, due primarily to the increasing cost of solar-grade polysilicon in China. A key component in PV panels, polysilicon spot market prices rose from less than $7 per kg in July 2020 to $39 in August...
Analysis
Regulations, solar power keeps Abu Dhabi on track to meet climate goals
Abu Dhabi has set an ambitious goal that goes beyond the UAE’s national energy strategy, which aims to increase the share of clean energy in its installed capacity mix to 50% by 2050. The Department of Energy (DoE) has been the regulatory authority for the energy sector in Abu Dhabi since 2018 and plays a pivotal role in driving energy transition efforts. Indeed, the emirate is committed to generating 60% of its electricity from clean sources by 2035 and reduce carbon emissions per MWh produced by the electricity industry by up to 75%...
Interview
Jasim Husain Thabet, Group CEO and Managing Director, Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA)
On how public-private collaboration is supporting the energy transition
The Report: Saudi Arabia 2023
Energy & Utilities Sector Analysis
Saudi Arabia’s energy strategy revolves around extracting maximum economic benefit from its remaining hydrocarbons reserves while expanding renewable power capacity at home by investing in research...
Energy in Emerging Markets
Economic NewsCapacity expansion supports Djibouti’s efforts to realise its green power potential
Efforts in Djibouti to increase energy capacity and accelerate the shift from hydrocarbons to renewables moved forwards in September 2023 with the inauguration of the Ghoubet wind farm.
Economic View
Ahmed Al Shamsi, Managing Director and CEO, Abu Dhabi Sustainable Water Solutions Company (SWS)
On innovative approaches in water conservation and reuse
Economic View
Musabbeh Al Kaabi, Executive Director, Low Carbon Solutions & International Growth, ADNOC
On Abu Dhabi’s carbon capture efforts and the role of hydrogen in the energy mix
Economic News
How emerging markets are navigating the rising cost of solar power
With high energy prices and supply chain disruptions creating shortages of key renewable energy components and materials, emerging markets are reassessing how to build out utility-scale solar power to accelerate their energy transitions. After more than a decade of decline, the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels has risen around the world, due primarily to the increasing cost of solar-grade polysilicon in China. A key component in PV panels, polysilicon spot market prices rose from less than $7 per kg in July 2020 to $39 in August...
Economic News
Saltwater batteries and the emerging blue energy economy
As emerging markets seek to accelerate their energy transitions by increasing solar and wind power capacity, recent technological advancements that harness the sodium from saltwater could provide a crucial breakthrough in battery storage. In recent months start-ups and researchers have debuted saltwater battery technologies that promise cheaper capacity to store variable solar and wind power at scale, a development that could help to reduce global dependence on lithium. In January US-based tech start-up Salgenx...
Economic News
How tech can unlock geothermal energy in emerging markets
As countries around the world look to increase baseload power generation, reduce energy imports and decarbonise their economies, emerging markets are boosting geothermal power generation with the help of new technologies and expertise. A new drilling technology developed by Quaise Energy, a US geothermal start-up spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that uses gyrotron-powered millimetre waves to vaporize rock, could allow for producers to drill as far down as 20 km compared to the average drilling...
Economic News
African gas suppliers look to meet Europe’s future LNG demand
As the EU works to rebalance its gas supply away from Russia, African countries are expected to gain a larger share of the bloc’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) market in the coming years. Last month the EU announced that it would launch the first tenders for joint gas purchases in April, with contracts expected to be signed by June. This novel approach seeks to leverage the bloc’s purchasing power to secure supplies at lower prices ahead of the summer when EU countries are expected to refill their underground gas storage...
Economic News
Shifting oil market creates export opportunities for emerging markets producers
With EU bans on Russian oil and oil-product exports set to go into effect this year in response to Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, emerging market producers are poised to gain larger shares of an evolving market. EU bans against Russian oil products such as diesel were rolled out earlier this month, following bans on Russian seaborne crude oil exports that began last December. Last week, Patrick Pouyanné, CEO of France’s TotalEnergies, said that there is...
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