Energy Voice – Out Loud

We’re back for 2023 and there’s plenty to chat about. Cries of betrayal are coming from the Aberdeen business community over the newly-published Scottish Government energy strategy and the region missing out on its freeport bid. 
South Africa. Eskom’s CEO has revealed he’s survived an attempted poisoning by cyanide in his coffee. We discuss the details we have so far on the attempt on the head of the country’s state-owned electricity generator. 
And it has been more than a year since Shell said it wouldn’t invest in the controversial Cambo oilfield, yet it remains a 30% owner of the project. 13 months on, we assess whether it will stick or twist with Cambo.
 
About Energy Voice
Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.
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Keeping people warm in their houses has taken on a new importance in the last 12 months, amid higher energy prices and threats to supply. Can low-carbon technologies help provide some new certainty on the domestic front?
Frances Warburton partner at EY, Clem Cowton director of external affairs at Octopus Energy and Matt Hindle head of net zero & sustainability at Wales & West Utilities get together to dig deep into heat pumps and hydrogen. 
There are certainly positives in the adoption of new technologies, but the discussion picks up on a number of the challenges and pitfalls that lie ahead.
 
 
About Energy Voice
Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.
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Ho-Ho-Ho! Santa Clause and his merry band of energy elves have a special Xmas Quiz prepared for our final podcast of the year. 
Get your notes out and play along as the team cycle through the top headlines of the year, and even dive into an oil and gas music round… Are the results legitimate, or are we (specifically, Hamish Penman) facing bribery-style allegations? You decide! 
We’ll be back in the new year when we’ve worked off the Xmas food and ready to resume normal service.
Thanks to all who have listened to us through 2022 - till then have a great festive season.
 
About Energy Voice
Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.
For a 30 day free trial subscription to the Energy Voice website and app, visit energyvoice.com/subscriptions.

Crazy times in Australia as gas producers slam the Labor government’s near nationalisation of the market.  The team discuss the introduction of some extraordinary legislation and price caps, as power bills soar in one of the world’s largest LNG exporters. 
Allister looks at the potential for a new heavy lift business that hopes to keep the Flemish Mafia out of the looming gap in the market for offshore wind projects in the UK and elsewhere. 
Meanwhile, a rather chilly Hamish gives us the lowdown on the new boss in the hotseat at trade body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK). Industry leader Deirdre Michie has stepped down as CEO after nearly a decade at the helm in turbulent times. 
 
About Energy Voice
Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.
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This week we’re on Penguin-watch as Shell’s first manned vessel in the North Sea for 30 years heads to the UK. 
Next its comparisons to Dennis the Menace as Woodside is accused of “corporate bullying” in East Timor. 
And we round off with some political challenges as NewMed eyes activity in disputed territory between Morocco and Western Sahara. 
Plus, we got dolled up for a world premiere this week for Amazon’s ‘The Rig’ - so the team take a tangent on their best gigs on the energy beat. Damon, as it turns out, is a big Formula 1 guy… 
 
About Energy Voice
Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.
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Qatar may be facing criticism over its human rights records amid the World Cup, but one area it is leading the world is in supplying LNG and striking deals for future exports. Germany, meanwhile, is faring better in the football but is struggling to reconcile different visions of its energy needs.
Between these two heavyweights comes ConocoPhillips, who in addition to describing football as soccer, is willing to act as an intermediary.
Hamish runs us through some of the big hopes for exploration drilling in 2023 in the UK North Sea, where hopes are high – but rig rates keep on rising.
Finally, we turn to the home front where the EVOL team has tuned in the new trailer of The Rig, ready for a horror show launch in January.
 
About Energy Voice
Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.
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How we think about energy must change to keep up with the realities, of a new world of decentralised power and smart connection.
John Breakell, Partner at EY, and Matt Hastings, Deputy Director at Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund (Innovate UK), join Ed Reed, editor at Energy Voice, to share some insights into how energy is changing – and how we should think about it.
The wide-ranging conversation covers everything from power generation, to distribution, to how consumers and communities can play a part in the move to net zero. There are opportunities galore, it seems, but progress will require the involvement of everyone involved not least in driving innovation.
 
About Energy Voice
Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.
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It’s a decom kinda week, with OEUK publishing an array of big predictions around well plugging and upcoming spend. Meanwhile, in honour of the World Cup, there’s accusations of goalposts being moved. 
There are also big plans to make the most of the North Sea’s glut of old wells by using them to produce heat from the earth's core. From a chilly Aberdeen, Allister fills us in on some hot geothermal action. 
And if anyone has a spare $179 billion lying around, there’s big opportunities in Indonesia, where gas is in the good books. Plus, Twitter spats, climate colonialism and much more….. 
 
About Energy Voice
Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.
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Inevitably, Energy Voice is that through-line connecting boxer Amir Khan, chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Miami Beach for posterity. 
The much trailed and talked-about windfall tax finally crash-landed this week with the Autumn Budget – we’re on the first reactions and implications for the sector. 
Reabold Resources has come out fighting against a shareholder revolt, knocking out its competitors, backed by one former welterweight world champion. 
And Shell has put its name to a Miami bitcoin bacchanalia – despite allegations of harassment surrounding the conference. 
 
About Energy Voice
Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.
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The EV team convene for a special episode on the inaugural AREG energy futures conference in Aberdeen. 
Featuring guests at the event and an interview with keynote speaker Lolita Jackson of Sustainable Development Capital LLP -  a 9/11 survivor – EVOL digs into key takeaways from the event.
 
About Energy Voice
Energy Voice investigates and reports on what matters in global energy, helping sector leaders understand the geopolitical and economic factors underpinning current events, and giving them a view on what’s coming over the horizon. Each year, 3.4m professionals use Energy Voice as a trusted source of breaking news and insight.
For more information on how you can speak to those professionals across multiple platforms to build your brand and generate actionable business leads, visit energyvoice.com/content-services.
For a 30 day free trial subscription to the Energy Voice website and app, visit energyvoice.com/subscriptions.