Posts by Fernando Tamayo
Energy Transition | The EU’s Oil & Gas CCS Mandate: Balancing Ambition with Reality
The EU has passed legislation that obligates 29 leading oil & gas companies to provide a collective 50 MMtpa of CO2 storage and injection capacity…
Read MoreDeepwater Emissions: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
By benchmarking the portfolios of the largest reserve holders, we will examine critical trends, differentiation factors, and explore the outlook for this segment over the…
Read MoreEnergy Transition | ‘Green-plating’ – a guide to cheap and effective decarbonization
In the oil & gas industry, ‘gold-plating’ emerged as a strategy for consortiums to increase revenue by driving up development costs. However, with a global…
Read MoreEnergy Transition | How cancelling Jackdaw and Rosebank will increase the UK’s emissions
A Scottish court has ruled that the approvals for the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields were unlawful due to inadequate environmental impact assessments,…
Read MoreEnergy Transition | 2025 and Beyond: How are strategic decisions by Majors shaping the upstream transition?
The demand for oil & gas has proven to be more resilient than previously anticipated. This shift has already led key players to reassess and…
Read MoreColombia’s Bold Push to Go Green Has an Unintended Trade Off: Gas Imports
“Gas produced in Colombia generates roughly the same amount of emissions as gas from the US Permian Basin, according to an estimate from Welligence Energy…
Read MoreBP’s revised ‘energy addition’ strategy
“BP, like any business, aims to generate profit and will only pursue developments – whether in oil and gas or other sectors – if those…
Read MoreWelligence GHG | The overlooked environmental impacts of offshore tiebacks
Our analysis indicates that Jackdaw’s updated development plan has not only led to a 19.62% decrease in valuation, but it could also have the unintended…
Read MoreElectrify the North Sea, or else?
“The electrification process necessitates comprehensive platform redesigns to accommodate the new systems,” Welligence Energy Analytics senior analyst for energy transition Fernando Tamayo told E-FWD. “In…
Read MoreAnalysis: Green Volt wind farm would cut carbon and costs at Buzzard oilfield
According to analyst firm Welligence, electrifying Buzzard through the 560 megawatt wind farm would cut the need for gas and diesel consumption by 80% and…
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