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Hot 2023: Manmade or natural?

Energy Central

As a recent article in Science magazine notes, iconic climate scientist James Hansen was suggesting that a new, air pollution driven warming mechanism might be at work. The global temperature was almost 0.3°C °C above 2022 levels, so much higher that even conventional analyses of global warming didn’t appear to explain it.

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Emissions crackdown could fast-track Australian CCS projects

Energy Central

SAFE GUARD MECHANISM IMPACT ON GAS PRODUCERS AND CCS The Australian Government's Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Bill 2023 has been passed by Parliament, with the new arrangements taking effect from 1 July 2023.The

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Electricity tariffs reduced by 1.52%, water up slightly

Reporting Oil and Gas

The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has declared a reduction in electricity tariffs and an increase in water tariffs, effective from December 1, 2023, to February 29, 2024.

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Gold for oil policy at risk of illicit financial flows – ISSER

Reporting Oil and Gas

The absence of a criteria framework for selecting suppliers and buyers, he argued, raises concerns about the transparency of the transactions, as crucial details such as suppliers, buyers, value, and pricing mechanisms remain undisclosed. Experts revealed that Ghana experienced cumulative gross illicit flows of $14.39

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EPA and Army Corps Release New WOTUS Rule

The Energy Law

On September 8, 2023, EPA and the U.S. With a decrease in federal jurisdiction, the demand for wetlands mitigation credits and thus mitigation banking may also decline, and as a result one of the mechanisms for achieving the U.S. The final rule revises the agency regulations in light of the U.S.

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Texas Supreme Court Holds that Add-Back Provision in Oil and Gas Lease Required Royalties to be Paid on Prices in Excess of the Producers’ Gross Proceeds

The Energy Law

20-0904, 2023 WL 2438927 (Tex. 2023), in which it held that lessees owed royalties in excess of their gross proceeds, specifically “adding back” costs incurred by third-party buyers that were enumerated in the sales contract and subtracted from the sales price. Sheppard , — S.W.3d

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Boost home heating efficiency: Connecting millions of smart radiator thermostats via AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN

AWS: Energy (Oil & Gas)

Scaling and FUOTA After a successful Proof of Concept (PoC) for the backend technology, a soft start of the product was conducted over the winter of 2023/2024. The uplink consumers in beyonnexs IoT landscape benefit from these Thing Models, for example by being able to generate code and HTTP API specifications from them. The beyonnex.io

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