{"id":10459,"date":"2015-06-15T08:35:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T13:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=10459"},"modified":"2015-06-16T14:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T19:43:06","slug":"the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-when-oil-giants-shift-to-natural-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2015\/06\/15\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-when-oil-giants-shift-to-natural-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly When Oil Giants Shift to Natural Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2015\/06\/14268938549_54fd0ea6c4_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-10467\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2015\/06\/14268938549_54fd0ea6c4_k-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"14268938549_54fd0ea6c4_k\" width=\"339\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2015\/06\/14268938549_54fd0ea6c4_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2015\/06\/14268938549_54fd0ea6c4_k-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2015\/06\/14268938549_54fd0ea6c4_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/a>Six large European oil and gas companies recently announced a commitment to engage on climate policy, calling for a price on carbon.\u00a0The now-emerging picture of their coordinated corporate talking points, however, leaves no doubt that promotion of natural gas is a core part of the group\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<p>Is this development a beneficial push to help the planet transition to a low carbon economy \u2013 or just another marketing campaign? The truth, so far, lies somewhere in between.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the good, the bad and the ugly highlights of what we\u2019ve learned over the past week and what it all means.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>The good: Establishing a carbon price and cutting carbon dioxide emissions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake about it: The world\u2019s leading economies need to establish a price and limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/3-climate-leadership-openings-corporate-america-cant-afford-miss\">leadership from the private sector<\/a> is instrumental in achieving that policy objective.<\/p>\n<p>For large companies such as Shell, BP and Statoil to join forces and unequivocally state, as they now have, that a price on carbon should be a \u201ckey element\u201d of climate policy frameworks is a refreshing boost to pre-Paris United Nations climate talks.<\/p>\n<p>It is a potentially powerful validation that even some of the world\u2019s largest corporate emitters see an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/26\/these-execs-will-tell-you-price-carbon-good-business\">upside to carbon pricing<\/a> and will weigh in to make it a reality.<\/p>\n<p>As to promoting natural\u00a0 gas a solution, it is well documented that in many cases <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/climate\/natural-gas\">natural gas<\/a> will replace coal for power generation \u2013 a shift already underway in the United States and partly responsible for driving down carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bad: Paying short shrift to natural gas\u2019s Achilles heel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the economic and carbon-dioxide benefits of coal-to-gas switching, there is a missing piece of the puzzle in the companies\u2019 formulation to date.<\/p>\n<p>One of the oil executives said \u201cThe enemy is coal.\u201d Respectfully, that is incorrect. The enemy is climate pollution; coal is merely its most pernicious face.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/climate\/methane\">Methane<\/a> is natural gas\u2019s Achilles heel. At close to 85 times more potent of a climate change forcer than carbon dioxide, methane emissions from the oil and gas industry undermine the very climate performance of natural gas that companies tout as a chief benefit relative to coal.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed a recent report\u00a0 found that the 20-year global warming potential of methane emissions from the global oil and gas sector have the same near-term impact as about 40 percent of total CO2 emissions from global coal combustion in 2012. And that\u2019s on top of the carbon dioxide from burning the natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the bad methane story can be solved at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/25\/business-case-minimizing-methane-emissions\">little economic cost<\/a>,\u00a0and while creating jobs in the process.\u00a0If the companies put a fraction of the effort of promoting gas into promoting methane solutions \u2013 including the regulations we need to establish basic environmental safeguards \u2013 this bad news story could disappear.<\/p>\n<p>A bold methane action plan that all companies embrace, and that includes strong regulatory assurances, is the missing ingredient \u2013 the elephant in the room.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The ugly: A leadership shortage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But we have a problem.<\/p>\n<p>American companies (think Chevron and Exxon) are among the most well-resourced and inventive oil and gas companies. With a large stake in natural gas, they share an interest with European corporate peers when it comes to promoting a carbon price that displaces coal and resolving the methane issue before it gets worse.<\/p>\n<p>However, these \u201csuper majors\u201d have remained conspicuously on the sidelines of the European companies\u2019 efforts. They\u2019re even signaling an intent to stay there even as peers move closer toward embracing a lower carbon future<\/p>\n<p>It is a missed leadership opportunity, but one they can still seize.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wherezjeff\/14268938549\/in\/photolist-nJU3iT-dXnFMk-953g4e-956j9Q-6v6T9D-t6W5jv-8omnqG-89aaGb-8omnr3-oMdGLm-oLYAb4-qEb9Es-9hpfwK-57fgGM-6UbkPE-9dEpvB-pYNpWX-hqpA2-623xLk-norS5d-pX3z2Q-7PzHL5-hMH5tx-hqpzZ-88MW1-be1Gur-c445EJ-c44niN-c44s99-a5qSU7-c442Sh-c441uQ-phvCNV-5NKHQU-bQs89F-quzsLb-c441K3-bzkf4C-paqU45-igoiWK-fsQuTJ-4zhY66-qnJR4w-giGPov-giGAC9-qd5fdL-c442Cd-6Xqrhi-nknUHG-FfVTQ\">Flickr\/Jeff Wallace<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This post originally appeared on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/08\/good-bad-and-ugly-when-oil-giants-shift-natural-gas\">EDF Voices blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six large European oil and gas companies recently announced a commitment to engage on climate policy, calling for a price on carbon.\u00a0The now-emerging picture of their coordinated corporate talking points, however, leaves no doubt that promotion of natural gas is a core part of the group\u2019s position. Is this development a beneficial push to help &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,55717,693],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-methane-2","category-natural-gas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly When Oil Giants Shift to Natural Gas - Energy Exchange<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2015\/06\/15\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-when-oil-giants-shift-to-natural-gas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly When Oil Giants Shift to Natural Gas - Energy Exchange\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Six large European oil and gas companies recently announced a commitment to engage on climate policy, calling for a price on carbon.\u00a0The now-emerging picture of their coordinated corporate talking points, however, leaves no doubt that promotion of natural gas is a core part of the group\u2019s position. 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