Posts by Fernando Tamayo
EU MERR Primer – Dates, definitions, obligations, and implications for the global oil and gas sector
The European Union’s MERR ushers in a new era of methane accounting, aiming to dramatically increase transparency and progressively limit releases across EU operations and…
Read MoreWelligence Energy Transition | Quantifying the Advantage: Emissions Lessons from the US L48
The U.S. upstream oil and gas sector, particularly in the US Lower 48 (L48), represents the most diverse upstream ecosystem in the world. This region…
Read MoreEnergy 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 MoreLetter on carbon: Meet America’s first CCS major
CCUS pipeline picture is mixed, analysis shows
Deepwater 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…
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