ChemWeek
10 July 2020
BASF has issued preliminary second-quarter results and says it expects to report a net loss of €878 million ($993 million) for the period compared with a net profit of €5.95 billion in the same period last year, well below analysts' estimates. |
PESGB | News Feature
June 2020
While Africa’s geological appeal for frontier oil and gas exploration will remain strong relative to other regions (one quarter of the new reserves discovered worldwide in the past decade are African), the early 2020 oil price crash will have significant and long-lasting impacts on upstream activity within the continent. Trends that were set in motion after the 2014 oil price collapse are likely to be exacerbated. |
Refining and Marketing Insights
June 2020
The European Commission presented the European Green Deal in December 2019, followed by the European Union’s first-ever climate law in March 2020.1 In this context, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis represents both a threat and an opportunity for the energy transition; but no matter what the outcome, it is without a doubt an important test case for European climate policies. |
