{"id":396712,"date":"2021-01-22T08:37:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T03:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=396712"},"modified":"2021-01-22T09:13:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T03:43:38","slug":"saudi-aramco-understated-carbon-footprint-by-up-to-50-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-aramco-understated-carbon-footprint-by-up-to-50-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Aramco understated carbon footprint by up to 50%, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before it launched the world\u2019s biggest public listing, Saudi Arabian Oil Co. promised potential investors a small piece of a trillion-dollar company with access to unrivalled oil reserves. Not just in sheer volume but in climate friendliness, too. <\/p>\n<p>Aramco executives emphasised in the run-up to an IPO in 2019 that drilling Saudi oil generates fewer planet-warming emissions than other producers. \u201cNot because our crude is cleaner than other crudes globally. It\u2019s because of our standards,\u201d Chief Executive Officer Amin Nasser said at a roadshow, pledging to do even more to deliver lower-carbon oil. \u201cEven though our numbers are great, climate change is critical for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before it launched the world\u2019s biggest public listing, Saudi Arabian Oil Co. promised potential investors a small piece of a trillion-dollar company with access to unrivalled oil reserves. Not just in sheer volume but in climate friendliness, too. Aramco executives emphasised in the run-up to an IPO in 2019 that drilling Saudi oil generates fewer planet-warming emissions than other producers. \u201cNot because our crude is cleaner than other crudes globally. It\u2019s because of our standards,\u201d Chief Executive Officer Amin Nasser said at a roadshow, pledging to do even more to deliver lower-carbon oil. \u201cEven though our numbers are great, 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-396712","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\/396712","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=396712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}