Key UK Energy Challenges – Now and in the Future
One picture, they say, tells a thousand words, and one recent picture about the UK energy scene tells more like […] Read More
Author Archives: Lord Howell
Back to too much oil?
For most of the oil industry’s earlier history its overarching problem was not shortage but too many producers and too […] Read More
Look Where We’re Going: Escaping the Prism of Past Politics
Lord David Howell, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Crystol Energy, launched his new book, “Look Where We’re Going: Escaping […] Read More
House of Lords Debate on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Lord David Howell, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Crystol Energy, participated in the debate on reducing greenhouse gas emissions […] Read More
The year in energy – moving backward
The energy scene is usually regarded as too complicated for everyday discussion — best left to technicians, scientists, government officials […] Read More
Oil and money – a combo that faces a cloudy future
The oil and gas industry remains one of the world’s biggest and most complex. Yet it is also now becoming […] Read More
Facing the new energy and climate realities
The new realities of energy and climate change must now be squarely faced. The two most salient of these are […] Read More
2017 – A year of Politics, Power, Paradox and Unintended Consequences
The year saw Donald Trump settling in at the White House, promising to withdraw America from foreign entanglements and ending […] Read More
Small Modular Reactors: The way forward
Lord David Howell, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Crystol Energy, comments on Hinckley Point C nuclear power project at the Windsor […] Read More
Revolutionary disruption coming to the energy sector
Disruption – driven by ever-newer technology – has become the keyword of the age. Disruption has already played havoc with […] Read More