Baker Hughes has published its 2020 global operating oil and gas rig totals. Its reports have been produced for North America since 1944 and globally since 1975, calculated using their own methodology. A change in the number of rigs may be indicative of the level of business activity in the oil and gas sector and form the basis for forecasting future oil and gas production. This year’s data presents a significant observation; there...
The World Bank's Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership and the U.S. The Energy Information Administration published several papers throughout 2020 presenting statistics and technological advances in the area of associated petroleum gas utilization. This topic is of importance as methane is the most prevalent active greenhouse gas, with current levels of emissions dangerously high. The combustion of methane in controlled volumes is a...
OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) has presented the 14th edition of its World Oil Outlook (WOO) exploring the prospects for the global economy and energy, with a particular focus on oil supply and demand. The researches highlight the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global energy and oil markets, describing 2020 as “one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of oil”. For the first time the outlook...
Lithium is considered to be a strategically important metal due to a number of its unique properties. In terms of power engineering, the most important quality is that lithium successfully combines value of standard electrode potential and density, which makes it indispensable for the production of storage batteries. U.S. The Geological Survey publishes Lithium Statistics and Information1 on a yearly basis. The last issue was published...
The 2020 edition of Renewable Energy Statistics released by IRENA gives a comprehensive overview on global renewable energy capacity and uses data sets on power-generation capacity for 2010-2019, actual power generation for 2010-2018 and renewable energy balances for over 130 countries and areas for 2017-2018. Apart from that the report includes information on electricity generation and statistics on investments in renewables....
The Renewables 2020 Global Status Report by REN21 gives a comprehensive overview on global developments in renewable energy in 2019. In general, the report points out that renewable power generation has grown impressively over the past five years, while too little is happening in the heating and transport sectors due to lack of political support and slow developments in new technologies. 2019 was a record year – over 200 gigawatts of...
The 2020 edition of the annual Statistical Review of World Energy by BP analyses 2019 and notes the unusual decrease of growth in energy consumption and carbon emissions, combined with a trend of moving away from coal toward natural gas and renewables, which together account for more than 75% of the net increase. The review shows that the growth of primary energy consumption slowed to 1.3% in 2019, which is less than half the rate of...
The 15th edition of the Global Wind Report 2019 released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) provides comprehensive datasets on wind industry around the world, based on the newest market data, country profiles and global trends. According to the report, 2019 became the second-best year for wind power historically, with 60.4 GW of wind energy installations globally. This is 19% more than in 2018, when 51.3 GW of new wind energy...
The Global Energy Review 2020 by the International Energy Agency (IEA) analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on global energy demand and emissions, describing it as “the biggest shock since the Second World War”. According to the released report, overall energy demand will decline 6% in 2020, while global carbon dioxide emissions are projected to fall by about 8%, compared with 2019. In the first quarter of 2020, compared...
An independent climate think-tank, Ember, focused on accelerating the global electricity transition from coal to fossil-free has published its new Global Electricity Review, giving insights into electricity generation & demand worldwide. The report presents data for 2019 across 217 countries covering 85% of the world’s electricity production. First and foremost, the report focuses on coal-fired electricity, which fell by 3% (-259 TWh)...
