Why We Cannot Just “Unplug” Our Current Energy System

OPEC’s Secretary General and other industry leaders had much to say about ‘Oil and Gas in a Net-Zero World’ in Dubai this week. They appeared newly confident in the central role they will play in an energy transition.  Speaking at Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Forum, held in conjunction with the annual World Government Summit, oil and gas leaders acknowledged that the war in Ukraine has suddenly shifted priorities. But they highlighted other factors at play, which will likely be central in their argument for the…