- O&G reserves rise despite decline in investment - Rigzone

- National Grid picks ex-Cadbury finance director - FT

- Iraq lifts oil reserves estimate, overtakes Iran - Bloomberg

- No carbon market boom without US - Reuters

- Goal looms for UN: ending ‘energy poverty’ - NY Times Green Blog

- World’s biggest solar project powers up in Canada - Reuters

- Barclays makes big bet on shale - WSJ

- Cancún failure would make climate talks ‘irrelevant’, EU negotiator warns - Guardian

- Climate chief urges nations to show deal can be done - Reuters

- Enel Green Power prepares €3bn IPO – WSJ

- Japan recycles minerals from used electronics - NY Times Green Blog

-  Climate talks in Tianjin put spotlight on China - WSJ

- Tide turns on search for oil in North Sea - FT

- Getting past the politics of climate change - NY Times Green Blog

- GE emerges as mystery bidder for Wellstream - FT

- Sinopec pays ‘very high’ premium for Brazil oil – Bloomberg

- Dudley must be decisive in putting his stamp on BP - FT

- Obama says Republicans would cut US clean energy incentives - Bloomberg 

- Climate talks put top emitter China in hot seat - Reuters

- Republican urges Obama to crack down on Cuban drilling plan - The Hill

Our apologies, but there will be no podcast this week.

Here’s the FT’s Lex on BHP Billiton’s $39bn offer for Canada’s PotashCorp:

A hostile bid in fertile territory, or fertile minds getting carried away? Industrially, BHP Billiton’s $39bn offer for Canada’s PotashCorp makes some sense. Demand for potash – used to improve crop yields – is robust, and PotashCorp is the largest producer, with more than a fifth of global mineral fertiliser capacity. The key word is “producer”.

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- Move to halt BP drilling off Libya - FT

- BP to begin permanent plug of Gulf of Mexico well this week – Bloomberg

- BP questioned on use of dispersant – Upstream

- Dana and KNOC to meet for crucial bid talks – FT

- S Africans stake claims to Congolese oil - FT

- EPA rejects petitions to reconsider danger of greenhouse gases

- Lessons from two important climate forecasts

- On our radar: BP writes off spill costs

- Fight gears up on biomass