What’s in a name? Last week's decision by Norway’s Statoil to rebrand itself Equinor could become a growing trend.
European oil and gas companies are changing their identity to reflect a wider economic and societal move to a low carbon world.
Denmark's Dong Energy has changed its name to Orsted, while Gaz de France/Suez became Engie in 2015.
Orsted claims to have said “goodbye to CO2” by selling off all oil and gas assets to concentrate on wind farms.