Energy & utilities
January 2026 | SPECIAL REPORT: ENERGY & UTILITIES
Financier Worldwide Magazine
January 2026 Issue
Q&A: Consolidation in the US oil and gas industry
The latest consolidation wave is a result of several converging forces, including relatively flat commodity prices, the industry’s push for scale and cost efficiencies, maturing of shale plays and a generally favourable regulatory and economic environment. FW discusses consolidation in the US oil and gas industry with Rahul D. Vashi at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Mingda Zhao at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates.
Energy system resilience in a time of growing geopolitical and climate risks
Center on Global Energy Policy Successful leaders across companies and countries will be the ones who look to advance strategic reset of risk assessment for energy and climate realities, stretching across investments, portfolios and planning.
Global energy transition: how renewables and nuclear power are driving clean growth
Gowling WLG The concept of a dual track approach is gaining traction: one track focuses on rapidly scaling up renewable power generation, while the other expands nuclear capacity to deliver reliable baseload and grid stability.
Permitting and siting regimes for carbon dioxide pipelines
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP The absence of a federal role in regulating the siting and construction of CO2 pipelines necessarily results in a patchwork of state regimes to fill the void, which can result in increased siting complexity.
Brazil advances natural gas sector with new market programme and cooperation deals
Tauil & Chequer Advogados By promoting stronger alignment between federal and state authorities, these initiatives represent important steps toward reducing asymmetries, creating clearer conditions for new market entrants and enabling strategic infrastructure investments.
Q&A: Renewable energy outlook 2026
Countries that deepen domestic supply chains, secure critical minerals and manage social transitions effectively will capture outsize investment and deployment growth through the late 2020s. FW discusses the outlook for renewable energy in 2026 with Seyda Duman at Milbank, Adam McWilliams at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP and Oly Moir at Slaughter and May.
CONTRIBUTORS
Center on Global Energy Policy
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Gowling WLG
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Milbank
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
Slaughter and May
Tauil & Chequer Advogados