{"id":377510,"date":"2020-10-09T08:44:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T03:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=377510"},"modified":"2020-10-09T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T04:04:08","slug":"denmark-seeks-talks-on-north-sea-oil-and-gas-after-application-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/denmark-seeks-talks-on-north-sea-oil-and-gas-after-application-withdrawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark seeks talks on North Sea oil and gas after application withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark\u2019s government urged political parties to discuss the future of oil and gas extraction in the North Sea after Total withdrew from the latest licensing round, the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTotal, which is the North Sea\u2019s largest operator, has announced that they are withdrawing their application for the 8th licensing round. This creates considerable uncertainty about the 8th tender round,\u201d the ministry said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Denmark has considered discontinuing the tender process because of the country\u2019s ambitious target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 70% by 2030. <\/p>\n<p>An independent government adviser on climate change said in June the government should end all future hydrocarbons exploration in the North Sea because it would hurt Denmark\u2019s image as a climate front-runner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark\u2019s government urged political parties to discuss the future of oil and gas extraction in the North Sea after Total withdrew from the latest licensing round, the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities said on Thursday. \u201cTotal, which is the North Sea\u2019s largest operator, has announced that they are withdrawing their application for the 8th licensing round. This creates considerable uncertainty about the 8th tender round,\u201d the ministry said in a statement. Denmark has considered discontinuing the tender process because of the country\u2019s ambitious target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 70% by 2030. An independent government adviser on climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}