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Commodities

  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Abu Dhabi National Oil Co
    Abu Dhabi energy group XRG hires former BP chief Looney

    Blackstone chief operating officer Jonathan Gray also appointed to board

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    Bernard Looney speaks during an interview
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    ExxonMobil
    Exxon cranks up oil output despite fears of supply glut

    Energy supermajor’s bet on production comes after US rival Chevron announced cut to capital expenditure

    An Exxon service station
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Renewable energy
    BP and Shell rein in electricity ambitions to escape ‘valley of death’

    Oil majors caught between pro-fossil fuel and pro-climate investors scale back $18bn power generation push

    Montage of BP and Shell logos, and electricity pylon
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Shell PLC
    Shell and Greenpeace settle ‘Cousin Greg’ lawsuit over protesters boarding vessel

    Environmental group to give £300,000 to charity and stay away from four North Sea platforms for at least five years

    Greenpeace activists in an inflatable boat, carrying a flag that says “Stop drilling, start paying”, approaching a Shell platform
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Agricultural production
    EU’s new agriculture chief seeks more funds for small farmers

    Christophe Hansen seeks changes to bloc’s multibillion-euro farm subsidy scheme

    Farmers protesting in Carcassonne, southern France
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Trafigura
    Swiss prosecutors demand 4-year jail sentence for former Trafigura COO

    Michael Wainwright accused of being ‘linchpin’ of scheme to bribe Angolan official

    Michael Wainwright  leaving the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switerzerland on December 2 2024
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    LexBP PLC
    BP has only scratched the surface in solving its identity crisis Premium content

    Four years after enthusiastically banging the drum for wind power, the oil major is beating a retreat

    The logo of British multinational oil and gas company BP
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    BP PLC
    BP moves offshore wind business into joint venture with Japan’s Jera

    British major is pulling back from renewables to refocus on oil and gas

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Responsible Investing
    Tough terrain ahead for investors in energy transition minerals

    Geopolitics and human rights concerns make lucrative opportunities difficult to access

  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Viaro Energy boss wins court case over North Sea ‘asset-stripping’ claims

    Abu Dhabi’s Taqa and UK’s Spirit Energy claimed Francesco Mazzagatti deliberately removed value from JV in Brae oil and gasfield

    Sun set at east brae oil rig
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Trafigura
    Trafigura used dozens of ‘high risk’ middlemen, court told in bribery case

    Prosecutors allege commodity trader paid more than €5mn in bribes via third parties to Angolan government official

    Exterior of the federal criminal court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, where the case is being heard
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Mining
    Australia boosts loan for rare-earths refinery in bid to break China’s dominance

    Government increases backing for Iluka Resources to build country’s first processing facility for rare earths

    Earth movers travel through the pit of an Iluka Resources mineral sands mine in Douglas, north of Hamilton, Australia
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Chevron cuts capital budget for first time since Covid-19 oil crash

    Supermajor’s move comes despite Donald Trump’s pledge to unleash new US fossil fuel surge

    An oil well for Chevron in the Permian Basin near Midland, Texas
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Opec
    Opec+ extends oil production cuts in bid to support prices

    Oil cartel’s production in 2025 will be more than 800,000 b/d below expectations

    An illustration showing an oil pump jack with an Opec logo in the background
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    LexOil & Gas industry
    Equinor and Shell’s neat UK combo offers a step towards an exit

    The real prize of this tie-up is the attraction of a bigger company to possible buyers

    Oil rigs
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Trafigura
    Large payments did not raise ‘red flags’, says former Trafigura finance chief

    Commodity trader had robust compliance checks, Pierre Lorinet tells Swiss court in bribery trial

    Pierre Lorinet
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Energy Source
    ‘Drill, baby, drill’ is not so simple Premium content

    Producers are unlikely to follow Trump’s marching orders amid muted global demand and Wall Street calls for higher returns

    Donald Trump speaks at a campaign town hall in front of a screen reading ‘Drill Baby Drill’
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Shell and Equinor to combine UK offshore oil and gas assets

    Companies say joint venture will play crucial role in securing energy supply for country

    A Shell oil platform in the North Sea
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Peak US-phoria? Not yet Premium content

    And Trump’s cheap energy dream

    New York City, Manhattan, commercial property
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    How the world’s biggest offshore wind company was blown off course

    Denmark’s Ørsted was once seen as a model for how oil and gas giants could go green. Its recent troubles suggest that things may not be so easy

    Montage image of the Ørsted logo and offshore wind farms
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Markets InsightPierre Andurand
    Cocoa market on the brink of big price surge

    A multiyear structural deficit will push up costs to inflation-adjusted highs

    A collection of cocoa pods in varying shades of yellow, green, and brown
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Opec
    Opec expected to extend oil output cuts as it waits on Trump

    Producer group likely to watch US president-elect’s plans to impose sanctions against Iran and Venezuela, say analysts

    An oil tanker near the Bushehr coast, Iran
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Shell PLC
    Shell signals no new offshore wind projects

    Oil major to pull back from renewable generation business but will continue to develop existing pipeline

    Hollandse Kust (noord) wind farm
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Trafigura
    Ex-Trafigura COO ‘forgot’ about compliance committee, court hears

    Mike Wainwright takes stand in bribery trial

    Mike Wainwright, former chief operating officer of Trafigura
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Tata Steel Ltd
    Tata Steel UK losses jump fourfold

    Indian-owned group takes £1.12bn hit after writing down value of legacy assets

    Tata Steel’s Port Talbot site in Wales
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