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Oil

  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Harbour Energy
    North Sea oil producer warns windfall tax rise will hit investment at wrong time

    Harbour Energy chief says sector will be vital for decades as Wintershall deal completes

    Linda Cook
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Crude hits year low on speculation Libyan output will resume

    Brent drops 5% on global oversupply concerns

    Crude oil storage tanks in Libya
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    LexOil & Gas industry
    North Sea oil and gas producers are not bluffing over tax

    Neo Energy has warned it will slow UK investments, blaming ‘fiscal and regulatory uncertainty’

    The sun breaks though cloud on to a north sea oil platform
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Energy Source
    The academic tasked with fixing the world’s most indebted oil group Premium content

    Energy economics specialist Víctor Rodríguez will run Mexico’s 86-year-old state oil company Pemex

    Claudia Sheinbaum and Víctor Rodríguez
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    South African economy
    South Africa signals more support for energy groups after Total exits gas project

    Energy minister says government could have done more to make offshore discovery commercially viable

    South Africa’s energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Ovo Energy Ltd
    Ovo’s earnings rose 11-fold in wake of energy crisis

    UK energy companies were allowed by regulator to recoup rising costs through customer bills

    Advertising for Ovo Energy on the side of a bus
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Egypt
    Egypt’s journey from gas bonanza to power blackouts

    Declining fossil fuel output and surging demand spark energy shortage despite production from vast Zohr field

    A street in Egypt during a power cut
  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Big Oil calls on Harris to come clean on energy and climate plans

    Democratic presidential candidate has dropped her opposition to fracking but still supports green transition

    Kamala Harris in Savannah
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    InterviewLibya
    Libya central bank governor flees divided country over fear for his life

    Sadiq al-Kabir the focus of high-stakes power struggle that has shut down most of the country’s oil production

    Sadiq al-Kabir is seated on a black leather couch and gesturing with his hands during an interview. He is wearing a blue suit, white shirt, and patterned tie. Behind him is a window with a view of greenery and a red bus outside.
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Shell PLC
    Shell to cut 20% of workers in oil and gas exploration units

    Chief executive Wael Sawan’s cost-cutting drive has reached the oil major’s core upstream business

    A sign on a forecourt canopy at a petrol station operated by Shell
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    US Election Countdown
    Inside Republicans’ anxiety over Trump

    Also in today’s newsletter, the familiar name foiling Democrats’ efforts to rein in big business, and falling petrol prices

    Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    European oil majors face falling profits, says Morgan Stanley

    Bank’s analysts cut share price targets for BP, TotalEnergies, Shell, Equinor and Repsol over weaker fossil fuel prices

    Silhouettes of an oil platform and an offshore supply ship in the North Sea
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Middle East conflict
    Houthi rebels to allow burning Red Sea oil tanker to be salvaged

    Fire onboard the Greek-owned Sounion had sparked warning of an imminent ‘ecological disaster’

    Flames and smoke rising from the Sounion oil tanker in the Red Sea on August 25 2024
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    UK energy
    UK government will not challenge legal bid to block Rosebank oilfield

    Decision casts doubt on the future of the project, one of the North Sea’s biggest

    The protestors hold placards saying ‘Stop Rosebank’ and ‘No new oil’
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Huge cut in overseas fossil fuel funding even as US fails to comply

    Coalition reduces financing by $15bn but does not deliver equivalent rise in funding for clean energy projects

  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Middle East conflict
    Maritime chief warns of oil spill risk from stricken Red Sea vessel

    The Sounion has a cargo of 1mn barrels of crude and is on fire after being attacked by Houthi rebels in Yemen

    A photo of the stricken Sounion oil tanker
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Zainab Usman
    Africa’s petrostates are missing out on the oil boom — and it matters

    Climate activists might celebrate the contraction in production but countries need to finance their energy transitions

    Dangote Petroleum Refinery Petrochemicals in Lagos
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Houthi movement
    Pentagon warns Red Sea tanker risks ‘environmental catastrophe’

    US says vessel targeted by Houthis appears to be leaking crude from its 1mn-barrel cargo

    Flames and smoke rise from the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Gunvor Group Ltd
    Gunvor reports 50% fall in earnings as energy market volatility declines

    Boom for traders that followed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine may be coming to an end

    Gunvor’s refinery at Rotterdam in the Netherlands
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Energy Source
    Sliding petrol prices are a boon for Democrats Premium content

    Lowest levels since March look set to keep tumbling as the US election draws near

    A nozzle is replaced on a fuel dispenser at a petrol station
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Petroleos Mexicanos
    Mexico’s incoming president Claudia Sheinbaum picks academic to run Pemex

    Energy economics specialist Víctor Rodríguez tasked with helping turn round the fortunes of state-run energy company

    Claudia Sheinbaum and Víctor Rodríguez
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Oil prices jump on reports of Libyan production shutdown

    Political wrangling sends crude 3% higher

    An oil terminal in Libya
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    ExxonMobil
    Exxon warns of oil shock if suppliers assume demand will fall by 2050

    Bullish forecast from US supermajor contrasts with predictions of rapid transition form fossil fuel

    The ExxonMobil Baytown refinery in Baytown, Texas
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    GB Energy
    UK starts hiring for roll out of new state-owned energy company

    Contested location of GB Energy’s headquarters to be announced soon, says minister

    A wind farm near Thurso, Caithness, Scotland
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Houthi movement
    Attack on oil tanker in Red Sea threatens ‘severe ecological disaster’

    Warning from EU task force comes after Houthis claim to have struck vessel carrying 150,000 tonnes of crude

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