Massive losses should be a warning to big oil that its bonanza is over
Covid has battered the industry, and the race for renewables is speeding up. We are at a tipping point
Sun 7 Feb 2021 07.00 GMT
The final months of 2020 were a tough end to a tough year, according to BP’s chief executive. But Bernard Looney’s verdict on the worst financial year in the industry’s history is a devastating understatement. It was a period marked by thousands of job cuts, battered dividend policies and record multibillion-dollar losses.
Shell capped a year in which it slashed its dividend for the first time since the second world war with a debit of almost $20bn. Shell is accelerating its move into electric vehicle charging, and all seem enamoured by the potential for a hydrogen economy.
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