Energy & Resources

The energy trilemma moves into sharp focus

Against a volatile macro and geopolitical backdrop, the challenges posed by the energy trilemma featured prominently in the oil majors’ first quarter earnings presentations.

By William Medvei
17 May 2022

Debate on shareholder returns dominated on back of strong cashflow generation

The oil majors reported Q4 and Full Year 2021 results that were the best in a decade and, in some cases, were the highest in the company’s history.

By William Medvei
01 March 2022

In Conversation: Nithi Patarachoke

A President at the Cement-Building Materials Business of one Southeast Asia’s leading conglomerates, SCG (formerly known as the Siam Cement Group), Nithi Patarachoke recently spoke with Brunswick about leadership, sustainability commitments, and key trends set to shape Southeast Asia.

By Dararin Choomsai Na Ayuthaya
12 January 2022

Major Minor

His passion for business—and Thailand—underpin the resilience and success of Bill Heinecke’s Minor International, writes Brunswick’s Michael Kearns.

By Michael Kearns
17 November 2021

Climate Ambition vs. Energy Reality

Jason Bordoff of Columbia University talks to Stephen Power.

By Stephen Power
12 November 2021

The case for integration and gas markets in the spotlight

The oil majors reported results for the third quarter that mostly beat expectations.

By William Medvei
11 November 2021

Help Capitalism Save the World... and Save Capitalism Itself

Paris offers a symbolic platform to do both, says Brunswick’s Hakim El Karoui.

By Hakim El Karoui
11 November 2021

All the Difference in the World

How you make the argument for climate action significantly affects the extent to which the public supports it, according to Brunswick research across eight major economies.

By Phil Drew
28 October 2021

The Clean Energy Transition: Buying or Selling?

We asked opinion leaders in the US and UK: “How would you invest $100/£100 across a basket of energy sources for a maximum return in 10 years?”

By Patrick Handley
26 October 2021

Champion for Climate Action

Nigel Topping is tasked with encouraging businesses and investors to be more ambitious in combating climate change. He speaks with Brunswick climate expert Phil Drew.

By Phil Drew
19 October 2021

Optimism returns as the oil majors post stronger results

The oil majors reported results for the second quarter that were typically ahead of expectations.

By William Medvei
12 August 2021

Climate Ambition vs. Energy Reality

A Conversation with Columbia University’s Jason Bordoff

By Stephen Power
05 August 2021

The Environment Baron

Lord Deben, Chairman of the UK’s powerful Committee on Climate Change, talks about charting the course of business and society toward net zero and a healthy planet. By Brunswick’s UK Director for Energy Transition Charles Malissard.

By Charles Malissard
28 July 2021

The Endurance Entrepreneur

His first startup launched at the dawn of this century, and Simon Rogerson has been launching others ever since, while also raising children, running triathlons and contemplating the purpose of business. By Susan Gilchrist.

By Susan Gilchrist
16 June 2021

Shareholder returns back in focus Themes from the oil majors’ Q1 2021 earnings calls

The oil majors reported resilient results for the first quarter, with management teams expressing confidence in a vaccine-led recovery in demand.

By William Medvei
18 May 2021

Frans Timmermans on the European Green Deal

His task: translate the climate ambitions of 27 countries and 455 million people into political reality.

By Pascal Lamy
29 April 2021

Why ESG is a CFO concern, with Greg Fewer, Chief Financial and Sustainability Officer, Aldar Properties

S3 E2 features Greg Fewer, Chief Financial and Sustainability officer at Aldar Properties in the UAE.

08 April 2021

The transition to new energies

The oil majors reflected on a challenging quarter at the end of a difficult year during earnings calls held in February. Marketing was the unexpected bright spot for most companies.

By Patrick Handley
17 February 2021

Two-Faced on Climate

Data and analysis nonprofit InfluenceMap is helping investors keep corporations honest about their climate lobbying. Executive Director Dylan Tanner talks to Lucy Parker and Simon Maine.

By Lucy Parker
17 February 2021

Navigating the Perfect Storm

In his first year at the helm, bp CEO Bernard Looney has had to contend with a pandemic and a historic plunge in oil prices. Yet his greatest challenge may lie ahead: leading the company through a decade that climate-change experts call “decisive” for the future habitability of the planet.

By Susan Gilchrist
09 February 2021

Navigating the Perfect Storm

In his first year at the helm, bp CEO Bernard Looney has had to contend with a pandemic and a historic plunge in oil prices. Yet his greatest challenge may lie ahead: leading the company through a decade that climate-change experts call “decisive” for the future habitability of the planet.

By Susan Gilchrist
09 February 2021

Lost in Transition

Brunswick climate expert Phil Drew says preparing for a net-zero world is now not only a societal obligation but rather a base-line commercial expectation.

By Phil Drew
03 February 2021

Lost in Transition

Brunswick climate expert Phil Drew says preparing for a net-zero world is now not only a societal obligation but rather a base-line commercial expectation.

By Phil Drew
03 February 2021

Communicating From the Outside-In

CEOs wanting to connect with a WFH workforce should consider fewer all-company emails and more social posts.

By Craig Mullaney
03 December 2020

Connected Leadership: Communicating From the Outside-In

How can CEOs engage a WFH workforce? Fewer all-company emails and more social posts, says Craig Mullaney.

By Craig Mullaney
03 December 2020

A focus on the fundamentals: Oil Majors Q3 2020 reports

The oil majors reported adjusted earnings a little ahead of consensus in the third quarter.

By William Medvei
09 November 2020

Pipelines, Protests and the Presidential Race

Brunswick Group survey finds bulk of voters see natural gas as climate-friendly – but only if industry does more to cut emissions

By Stephen Power
10 September 2020

Preserving the Desert

The air-conditioned UAE may seem like an unlikely model of sustainability. But there’s a long history of respect for the environment in the Arabian Peninsula, writes Brunswick’s Simon Pluckrose.

By Simon Pluckrose
31 August 2020

A story of impairments: Themes from the Oil Majors' Q2 2020 earning calls

Second quarter earnings of the oil and gas majors reflected the full impact of lockdowns introduced in many countries to stem the spread of COVID-19.

10 August 2020

Plugging in a Carbon-Free World

Electron CEO JoJo Hubbard tells Brunswick’s Inez Bartram Vilar and Kirsty Cameron how a boost to the green-energy revolution could be COVID-19’s silver lining.

By Inez Bartram-Vilar
13 July 2020

Renewables and COVID

As the financial impacts of Covid-19 become more apparent we thought it was a good time to review the financial impact on the renewables sector.

28 May 2020

Counting the cost: Themes from the Oil Majors' Q1 2020 earning calls

During the Q1 2020 earnings calls, the Majors emphasized their commitment to protecting the health and safety of employees and customers through the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Patrick Handley
14 May 2020

COVID and climate: glass half…?

The ‘good’ news: Global emissions are projected to fall by a record-breaking 5.5% this year. Our environment is having a rare moment of pause from the continued growing impact of humanity.

27 April 2020

Oilfield services companies’ response to low oil prices

Unprecedented is how many oilfield services executives have described current oil market conditions. Several oilfield services companies have withdrawn financial guidance issued less than a month earlier, as work backlogs begin to be impacted by cutbacks in customers’ spending. These companies promised to provide new and more detailed guidance in Q1 2020 earnings calls scheduled to be held in April and May.

By Patrick Handley
20 April 2020

Why the fight over oil production limits in Texas is either side’s to win

By Stephen Power
13 April 2020

Brunswick Group survey examines what Americans think about federal aid for oil & gas companies

Brunswick Group survey examines what Americans think about federal aid for oil & gas companies

By Stephen Power
02 April 2020

Responding to the Oil Price fall – how the Majors and IOCs are adapting

It is a little over a month since oil and gas companies announced FY19 results and set budgets for 2020. Since then COVID-19 has been declared a global pandemic, OPEC+ failed to agree new output restrictions, and oil prices have fallen by 50%.

30 March 2020

Raising the bar on climate ambitions: themes from the IOC’s Q4 results

Over the last decade, oil companies had to adapt to a dramatically lower commodity price environment. At the start of a new decade, IOCs are being challenged to adapt again. This time the challenge is more strategic: how do oil and gas companies navigate their way through the energy transition?

By Patrick Handley
20 February 2020

Feed the World

The head of the UN’s World Food Programme talks to Brunswick’s Robert Moran about the role of business in global food security.

By Robert Moran
22 January 2020

Drawing the Line on Deforestation

Helmy Othman Basha, Managing Director of palm oil producer Sime Darby Plantation, talks with Brunswick's Lucy Parker about transparency as the front-line of transforming the industry.

By Lucy Parker
22 January 2020

Sustainability Pioneer

Brambles CEO Graham Chipchase sat down with Brunswick’s Phil Drew and Jordan Bickerton to talk about Brambles as a sustainability model.

By Phil Drew
22 January 2020

EU Sets the Pace

The EU is set to become the first mover in stronger climate regulation, and the impact will be global, say Brunswick’s Fiona Wright and Ayrton Thevissen.

By Ayrton Thevissen
22 January 2020

Dame Ellen MacArthur: Looking at Everything Differently

In 2005, Ellen MacArthur became the fastest solo sailor to circumnavigate the globe. Five years later, she set up the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to accelerate the transition to a circular economy.

By Dame Ellen MacArthur
22 January 2020

Building a Circular Economy

Andrew Morlet, Ellen MacArthur Foundation CEO, talks to Brunswick’s Caroline Daniel about rethinking the global economic system.

By Caroline Daniel
22 January 2020

Climate Geopolitics: The Data

Brunswick’s Jon Miller looks at the climate science and potential impacts.

By Jon Miller
22 January 2020

Shifting Power Balance in a Low-Carbon World

Pascal Lamy, Brunswick’s Chair of Europe and former Director-General of the World Trade Organization, on the global energy dynamics.

By Pascal Lamy
22 January 2020

Geopolitical Impact

Climate change is redrawing the map, not just of the physical world, but the political and economic.

22 January 2020

Resetting investor expectations for 2020

A Reset was the dominant theme from the Oil Majors’ third quarter earnings calls. A reset of long-term oil and gas price assumptions and a reset of portfolios to focus on the most competitive hydrocarbons and lower carbon assets, while playing to companies’ existing strengths.

By William Medvei
14 November 2019

Carole Cable & Eira Thomas on diversity in mining and the next generation

Eira Thomas, President and CEO of Lucara Diamonds, sat down with Carole Cable to discuss the key barriers to entry she sees for the next generation and women looking to get into mining, and how she is using her position as a CEO to address those challenges.

By Carole Cable
18 October 2019

Machines are listening to your earnings call

Here's how a mining company learned to speak their language.

By Carole Cable
09 October 2019

Making Waves

Scientist, ocean conservationist and social entrepreneur Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson tells Brunswick’s Preston Golson and Liz Dahan about corporate action and transparency needed in the climate crisis.

By Liz Dahan
18 September 2019

Summit Stars

The founders of Concordia tell Brunswick’s Beatriz Garcia how straight out of college they set about building a powerhouse leadership conference.

18 September 2019

Developing resilience in a volatile macro-environment

Resilience was the dominant theme from the second quarter earnings calls held by the large integrated oil and gas companies: resilience of the balance sheet to volatile oil prices and weak gas prices; resilience of operating assets following some unplanned outages; and resilience of the portfolio to the challenges of the energy transition.

By William Medvei
12 August 2019

Engineers of Reinvention

Weir CEO Jon Stanton tells Brunswick’s Carole Cable and Matheus Fierro the secrets of keeping a fast-growing, 150-year-old corporation focused on core values.

By Carole Cable
04 June 2019

Reservoir of Goodwill

Kosmos Energy discovered a massive natural gas field off the coast of West Africa. There was one significant obstacle: It sat on the maritime boundary of two countries that had once fought a border war. CEO Andrew Inglis tells the story to Brunswick’s Stuart Donnelly and Andrew von Kerens.

By Stuart Donnelly
04 June 2019

Back to Nature

An ambitious Design Triennial at New York’s Cooper Hewitt wants to change the conversation around climate change. Brunswick’s Kim Mitchell and Carlton Wilkinson report.

By Kim Mitchell
04 June 2019

Women in Mining

An excerpt from a speech by Carole Cable, Chair of Women in Mining, for the WIM100 Inspirational Women in Mining 2018 Edition, launched in November 2018

By Carole Cable
31 January 2019

The mine(r) of the future

The mining industry has come a long way since early advocates dug out shafts by hand in what was a lengthy, inefficient, and highly dangerous process.

By David Litterick
26 November 2018

The forest from the screens

Ant Financial, China’s most valuable fintech company, allows users to help plant a forest via smartphone. Dr Lu Jianzhong and Isobel Brown report

06 November 2017

Turn on the power

Cultural differences can drive greater efficiency and innovation, says Li Yinsheng, CEO of clean energy group CTG Brasil

By Roberta Lippi
06 November 2017

Green energy

Football star and entrepreneur Mathieu Flamini talks to Brunswick’s Stuart Donnelly and Simon Maine about sustaining two demanding careers

By Stuart Donnelly
28 June 2017

Warming to the challenge

While politicians debate the reality of climate change, a clear consensus for action has emerged in the business world. Brunswick’s Phil Drew and Jordan Bickerton report

By Phil Drew
10 April 2017

Precious ore, precious data

A digital future opens an old industry to new threats, says Brunswick's Carole Cable

By Carole Cable
27 June 2016

2nd Annual U.S. oil and gas M&A survey

Weak commodity environment to drive increase in oil & gas sector M&A, Brunswick survey finds

By Mark Palmer
01 March 2016

The 11 Conversations: Energy & Climate Change

Rising living standards have resulted in a dramatic increase in demand for energy. Since the industrial revolution, total global commercial energy use has increased a hundredfold.

By Sarah West
31 May 2012