Renewable Energy Opportunities in the Oil and Gas Sector

Executive Summary

At first glance, they would seem like natural enemies. Yet for many years, the global oil and gas sector has been investing in renewable energy technologies and projects. To support and systematize the efforts of the O&G sector in this space, a group of leading companies engaged with the Pembina Institute in 2012 to review the history of renewable energy activity, share experiences, extract the opportunities, barriers and enablers, and draw some conclusions for how to move this area forward if and where appropriate.