North America’s oil and gas revolution has consistently outperformed expectations over the past decade. It has provided massive supply growth for consumers and record profits for stakeholders— although never both at the same time. And while the industry has made progress on “easy” emissions reductions, the next tranche of decarbonization will require larger-scale action. Can the industry deliver growth, profits and lower emissions over the next 10 years? How will the sector overcome infrastructure hurdles to move the molecules from the resources to the customers? After a decade of rapid growth, is the sector moving into a new phase focused on improving efficiency and delivering more value from its operations?”
Imagine the power of a dataset created by multiple companies sharing their equipment-level emissions data and the abatement actions they are deploying across their portfolio. This Lyceum session will discuss the Accelerate platform that S&P Global is building to create this pool of anonymized, standardized data to help companies reduce abatement costs and meet emissions goals.
The upstream oil & gas journey to lower the carbon intensity of operations is seeing tangible results. That journey will become more complex as low-hanging fruit disappears and operators tackle the integrated challenge of balancing rapid learning and maturing new technologies to further decarbonize operations. What abatement initiatives are showing the greatest—and the least—promise? Do companies have the information to make actionable decisions based on marginal abatement cost curves (MACC)? What are the critical technologies that can deliver accelerated progress? How do companies prioritize and make trade-offs among very different options? What internal and external factors will make the biggest impact on success by 2030?
S&P Global experts present their latest research and discuss topics on energy transition, energy security and trends shaping the global economic and energy landscape.