India has ambitious plans to become a 100% electric vehicle (EV) nation by 2030, and the government is offering plenty of incentives to accelerate EV uptake.But the key to decarbonising India’s transport sector will be deploying renewable ener

A suicide mission? Banking on oil, gas and petrochemicals in an oversupplied market with a business model structurally broken is a defensive strategy unlikely to work

Jun 4th, 2020 27m 40s

Building a petrochemical facility reliant on the fossil fuel - gas - is one of the top-listed projects put forward by the Australian government aimed at stimulating the economy post COVID-19.The $1.9bn fertiliser facility pegged for Narrabri i

India: Government-owned funders are leading backers of non-performing assets in the power sector

May 19th, 2020 12m 46s

Over the years, the government-owned Power Finance Corporation (PFC) and the Rural Electric Corporation (REC) have been lending extensively to coal-fired power projects. In fact, over half of their total loan book is exposed to thermal power.Y

Even before COVID-19, the oil and gas industry's model was broken

May 13th, 2020 16m 1s

The global fracking industry has a fundamentally broken business model which is: Let's produce as much oil and gas as we can, and hope that prices rise as a result.It's completely backward.What we’ve ended up with is a global supply glut and

Greenhouse emissions from gas higher than industry estimates. And a gas-fired recovery post-COVID19 is off with the pixies.

May 2nd, 2020 9m 41s

This week we’re talking about something not many people know about, which is the massive greenhouse emissions being released from the fossil fuel - gas - and LNG (liquefied natural gas).Those emissions are so big that in one major oil and gas

What's the 'new normal' post coronavirus? Australia says gas. This is a mistake.

Apr 23rd, 2020 15m 27s

The coronavirus pandemic continues to take its toll. Most countries still have cities and regions in lockdown, businesses are losing money hand over fist, and people everywhere are being sorely affected.Within these extraordinary times, govern

More gas bankruptcies in the U.S. and a surprising outcome from Santos' AGM today

Apr 3rd, 2020 9m 11s

Bruce Robertson is a gas and LNG analyst with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, also known as IEEFA. He joins us today to talk about the extraordinary events occurring in the global gas industry. Today for instance, Au

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