Exxon Mobil Shifts Gears to Clean Technologies Amid Investors’ Pressure

February 03, 2021 08:58 PM AEDT | By Team Kalkine Media
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Summary

  • Exxon Mobil announced a new venture focused on low emission technologies such as carbon capture storage.
  • The announcement followed investors insisted that the US oil giant should address climate concerns, especially after the Joe Biden administration re-joined the Paris Agreement.
  • The group pledged to invest US$3 billion over four years till 2025 in different low emissions technologies.

US oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil announced a new business venture called ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions focusing on low-emission technologies. The company pledged to invest US $3 billion till 2025 in carbon capture storage and other low emissions technologies after 135 investors holding over US $2 trillion in assets pushing to address climate change.

The carbon capture storage technology involves the extraction of greenhouse gas emissions from the air to lower the carbon emissionsThe CCS is an attractive technology for the oil and gas companies as it does not involve them altering their business models significantly.

The technology helps the emissions of crude oil taken from the ground, leading to lower carbon intensity.  The oil company had announced to lower its carbon intensity by 20 per cent by 2025 last DecemberCarbon intensity is an emission rate of pollutants in the supply chain or industrial production process per barrel of oil.

Exxon's new venture is expected to fund up to the projects across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asian regionsWhile the firm's initial focus is on CCS technology, it eventually wants to expand to hydrogen and other low carbon technologiesThe oil company holds over 40 per cent of all captured carbon dioxide and a significant equity shareholding of carbon capacity of up to 20 per cent globally.

ExxonMobil latest quarterly earnings showed the company suffered a US $20-billion loss over the periodThe company's dismal fiscal results highlighted its ongoing challenges in managing sluggish demand and prices due to the pandemicIt had recently announced plans to cut about 1,900 jobs in the US.

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On the other hand, European oil companies such as British Petroleum and Shell have aggressively invested in moving towards net zero emissions by focusing on wind, solar and other renewable energy sourcesBP has committed an expenditure between US $4 billion to 5 billion annually till 2025 on low carbon sources of energy.

The announcement comes on the back of US President Biden’s decision to re-join the Paris Agreement on climate changeMoreover, the news follows the US's largest automobile company General Motors plans to stop selling fossil fuel-powered light-duty vehicles by 2035.

This announcement of Exxon is not expected to satisfy sustainable investors and environmental groups until the oil major matches its peersThe company also needs to undertake sweeping measures by investing in clean energy sources and commit to net-zero emission targets as the global economy attempts to transition to a low-carbon economy.


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