Chevron has announced it will work with a unit of oilfield services giant Schlumberger, as well as with Microsoft and private company Clean Energy Systems, to build a bioenergy plant with carbon capture technology that would produce carbon-negative power in Mendota, California. The bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) project is planned to convert agricultural waste biomass, such as almond trees, into a renewable synthesis gas that will be mixed with oxygen in a combustor to generate electricity. This is Chevron’s newest project as a growing number of oil corporations look to develop carbon capture technology and other low-carbon energy solutions.

On the precipice of another historic meeting between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and their allies (OPEC+), leaders will discuss the possibility of increasing oil production levels. Since many countries in the group are dependent on oil revenues, some are wary of another price crash while others are concerned about the wellbeing of their country. Nonetheless, tensions are high and sideline members including the United States have attempted to intervene.

On Monday, all 254 of Texas’s counties were under a winter storm warning at the same time. As wind turbines froze in place, natural gas pipelines froze shut, refineries shut down, and more than 4 million barrels of crude oil production was shut in; the amount of power supplied to the grid fell rapidly just as demand was increasing as consumers and businesses turned up the heat and stayed inside to avoid the weather. Now, millions in Texas are still left without power from an electric grid that had not taken winterization measures as low temperatures continue to rock the Lone Star State that is woefully underprepared for such a rare event.

Everyone needs a win every now and again, especially when they have been battered for so long. That is exactly what happened this week when oil prices posted their longest “winning streak” in two years, gaining ground for eight straight days. Even though the world is beginning the slow and gradual transition to renewable energy, it seems markets have realized societies current reliance on fossil fuels.

Early last year, the Trump administration’s Department of Energy celebrated a special birthday. “Happy Third Operating Anniversary, Petra Nova!” The release celebrated a Texas based power-plant successfully removing carbon dioxide from the plant’s emissions and safely storing them for three years. But the celebration was short lived as Petra Nova barely made it to its fourth birthday before being shuttered indefinitely in what may be one of the last gasps for carbon capture and storage technology in the U.S. While it is grim news for the aspiring technology, maybe Elon Musk can bring new vigor to CCS with his upcoming carbon capture competition.