A record-breaking offshore lift
How the 24,200-tonne Brent Delta platform was lifted and carried to an industrial recycling centre more than 700 kilometres away.
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Asia’s quest for a cleaner future
Inside Energy interviews experts about the challenges facing Japan - an economic powerhouse with few energy resources of its own.
Bangalore's beacon of innovation
As Shell opens its new technology hub in Bangalore, the Indian city is becoming known as the Silicon Valley of Asia.
India’s energy entrepreneurs make the future
Meet India’s bright young minds pitching to turn their energy ideas into commercial reality.
A thirst for change
How a community project in western India has improved access to affordable, clean drinking water for hundreds of households.
Where technology meets humanity
The South by Southwest festival in the USA brings together musicians, artists and entrepreneurs. Why is Shell there?
Travelling light: the roads of the future
Why scientists and artists believe roads offer an untapped opportunity for energy innovation.
The homes powered by Dubai’s sunshine
How a new carbon-neutral housing development will tap into a city’s abundant supply of sunshine.
Deep-water safety training goes virtual
How a visit to a shopping centre led to the use of virtual reality in safety training for a new oil production project in Malaysia.
What is your defining energy hope?
Ten of the industry’s brightest minds on the highlights of the last year and their hopes for 2017.
Kite power: no longer a flight of fancy?
As Shell co-invests in a company generating electricity from high-altitude wind, is kite power about to take off?
Food security: how natural gas can help India's farmers
Watch how the Western state of Gujarat, where Shell's Hazira joint-venture is based, is using natural gas to increase fertiliser production.
Securing the talent of tomorrow
How can the energy industry compete with Silicon Valley in attracting the brightest recruits?
A "Fitbit for Energy"
Can big data help the world improve energy efficiency? Six months after winning Energy Fest, an innovation pitching competition in Amsterdam, one start-up’s vision is breaking through.
All in the family: the Brent pioneers
Forty years after the huge Brent oil and gas field started operations, one family’s story reflects its history…and the birth of a new industry.
Morocco climate talks: five things that must happen
One year after the United Nations Paris agreement on climate change, Shell's climate change adviser David Hone outlines the steps needed to make further progress.
Pitching to the president
Five years after Shell funded a British start-up, the entrepreneurs behind it have pitched their idea to President Barack Obama.
Carbon capture: “the technology we cannot afford to ignore”
To meet the UN agreement to reduce emissions, the world must seriously look at carbon capture storage technology, says Sally Benson, one of the world’s leading energy experts.
Cruising into a cleaner future
The world’s first gas-fuelled cruise ships will set sail in Europe over the next few years.
IEA Chief Economist: let’s keep momentum after Paris climate deal
The energy future is not just in the hands of governments and businesses, argues Laszlo Varro. Consumers also have a huge role to play.
Nasa’s adventure at the bottom of the sea
It took an abandoned nuclear missile silo, a vast underwater laboratory and a lot of hard work. But the US space agency boldly went where it had never been before: the North Sea.
Grand feats for young scientists
One school is using today’s global challenges to teach critical subjects and inspire young minds.
Scientists gain new line to the deep ocean
A new mooring line in the Gulf of Mexico could further scientific knowledge of the world's interconnected ocean systems.
From hospital bed to seabed
CT scanning has already revolutionised medicine, now it is driving innovation deep beneath the waves.
Panama Canal opens shortcut for natural gas
The first shipment of liquefied natural gas to pass through the expanded Panama Canal heralds new trade routes.
Breathing more easily: how natural gas can change lives
Villagers in the Western Indian state of Gujarat can now cook with cleaner-burning natural gas, thanks to a government-led initiative.
Bright ideas from the innovators of tomorrow
Energy from algae and maggots that help make animal feed are some of the ideas featuring in a festival of innovation.
Switching on lights for one of the Philippines' oldest tribes
Watch how a local project combining solar energy and hydropower is bringing electric light to the Batak people.
Back to the Future: could cars one day be powered by waste?
The Shell pilot plant that will turn rubbish into fuel for cars.
Hunting for the next big energy idea
How to turn bright energy ideas into commercial innovations, by Geert van de Wouw of Shell Technology Ventures.
A little car that goes a long way
Could ultra-efficient vehicles like the new Shell concept car help address some of the world’s urban transport challenges?
Winds of change: turbine turns traffic into energy
A young entrepreneur has invented a roadside wind turbine that could help harness energy from traffic.
Grand designs: how 3D printing could change our world
The latest manufacturing technology could change how virtually everything is made, one layer at a time.
Smooth operators in space
How supercomputers help to overcome the technical challenge of keeping satellites working smoothly hundreds of kilometres above earth.
Back to earth: a growing role for sulphur
Can sulphur - a by-product of processing oil and gas - do more to boost crops?
The new information superhighways
With the promise of safer journeys and lower-carbon emissions, can connected cars catch on?
Towards more sustainable cities
Jeremy Bentham, Shell’s head of Scenarios, on the findings of the latest report, “A Better Life with a Healthy Planet: Pathways to Net-Zero Emissions”.
A close encounter in the Caribbean
Rare sightings of calf sperm whales add to scientific knowledge about life off the coast of Colombia.
Paris, December 2015: it’s a done deal, but what’s next?
Shell Chief Climate Change Adviser David Hone on the Paris climate change agreement.
Tracking the future of energy technology
Shell Chief Technology Officer Yuri Sebregts talks about the critical role technology can play in lowering carbon emissions.
From the oyster bar to the sand bar
Restaurants recycle oyster shells to help restore reefs and coastal wetlands in Louisiana.
Capturing carbon in the quest for cleaner energy
A landmark project helps to advance technology that could play a key role in the transition to a lower-carbon world.
Keeping the lights on in the Philippines
An innovative project in deep waters demonstrates how older gas fields can continue providing energy to power homes and businesses.
Could sun-charged batteries power our homes?
Combining solar or wind energy with new, more affordable batteries could transform the way some of us use electricity at home.
The secrets of the EcoGenie
An experimental house in the Netherlands reveals how renewable technology can cut energy bills and carbon emissions from old homes.
Hydrogen cars hit the highway
Emissions-free cars move closer to the mass market with help from governments, car makers and a growing network of refuelling stations.
Growing up in a crowded world
To mark 2015 World Population Day, Inside Energy visited the world’s 7 billionth baby to find out what life has been like for her.
Bubble surfing brings savings
Similar techniques to those used by penguins to swim quickly and easily are now being used to cut fuel use and pollution by ships.
Widening horizons
How a training programme in Patagonia gives people new skills for the growing local energy industry.
Clearing the skies over Beijing
See how China is taking action to reduce air pollution, using renewable energy and replacing coal-fired plants with cleaner gas-fired plants.
How underwater robots shine a light on sharks
See how ocean scientists are using energy industry technology to reveal life in deep water.
What if we ate bugs for breakfast?
Student teams from all over the world think about innovative ways to ease the pressures on the earth’s vital resources.
Helping Iraqi schoolchildren stay safe
Iraq has one of the world’s worst traffic accident rates and young people are particularly at risk. See how children are learning to stay safe.
Unlocking new energy resources for Europe
A major natural gas plant is expanding to receive gas from a new pipeline running deep beneath the Norwegian Sea, boosting supplies of energy for millions of people.
Boosting the ingredients for modern life
A vast project has boosted production of the raw chemicals that go into products we use every day, from the phone in your pocket to the pillow you sleep on.
Giving new entrepreneurs a flying start
In the heartland of Brazil’s oil and gas industry, we are helping a new generation of entrepreneurs turn their ideas into businesses and their dreams into reality.
Driving into a low-carbon future
What is the future for mobility when cutting emissions is crucial? Could it signal the end for the combustion engine? We ask one of our Chief Scientists, Wolfgang Warnecke.
Health care far from anywhere
Advances in web and satellite communications are bringing specialist medical expertise to the remote places where we work, helping to save lives.
Shell’s pioneering films
See how award-winning documentaries made by Shell over the last 80 years have informed, entertained and tackled the challenges of the time.
Eye in the sky
See how we are using high-tech drones to go places humans would rather avoid.
Learning to drill deeper and more safely
Demand is growing for energy across Asia, also for the skills to unlock it.
A bionic inspector rolls in
Sensabot is a robot that can help maintain oil and gas field equipment in hostile environments.