Beyond COVID-19: Energy

Global supply chain challenges and energy shortages and their impact on PF mining projects

Supply chain challenges, energy shortages: Impacts on PF mining projects

Global supply chain and energy shortage issues are having a continued impact on limited recourse project financed mining projects. Norton Rose Fulbright counsels Felicity Brown and Matt Hacking identify the current issues being faced by mining companies in the procurement and development of their projects, what steps mining companies can take to proactively deal with these challenges and mitigate their cost overrun exposure, and how these issues are being viewed by the financial institutions lending to these projects.

Global | Publikation | Februar 06, 2023

Industrial feed stock

Petrochemicals are one of the largest drivers of global oil demand and demand for petchems feedstock and industrial fuels will continue to gather pace as economic activity recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Global | Publikation | Juli 01, 2021

Global: Green recovery to accelerate the energy transition

Decarbonising the energy system must go beyond expanding the utilisation of renewable energy to include measures that tackle emissions from continued hydrocarbon production and consumption

Global | Publikation | Juli 10, 2020

Deep in the heart of texas

From the ashes of the collapse in oil prices comes the opportunity of the energy transition.

Global | Publikation | Juni 11, 2020

COVID-19 is accelerating the move to renewables

The pandemic and resulting fall in demand for energy is hitting the willingness to fund oil and gas projects more than those involving renewable energy.

Global | Publikation | Juni 11, 2020

Alberta launches $40 million agribusiness challenge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Alberta launches agribusiness challenge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Food producers, processors and agribusinesses are facing increasing pressure to expand the production of locally-grown food, while curbing emissions and operating in a more sustainable manner.

Canada | Publikation | Juni 10, 2020

Can you claim a carbon credit for shutting down due to the pandemic?

If you shut down your business due to the pandemic and therefore are not emitting greenhouse gases (GHGs), can you claim a carbon credit?

Canada | Publikation | Juni 10, 2020

Climate change and sustainability

Prior to COVID-19, few people would have found an obvious practical connection between a pandemic and climate change. But with hindsight, the connections are manifold – as discussed below, some are obvious, some more subtle, while others are still playing out.

Global | Publikation | Juni 04, 2020

The energy market in a global pandemic

Long-term participants in the energy sector have weathered significant fluctuations in oil and gas prices in the past, most recently during the 2014/2015 oil price crash. However, the current circumstances are unprecedented.