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    Tom Wilson

    Energy correspondent

    Tom Wilson writes about the world's largest energy companies, OPEC and the energy transition. He previously ran the FT's Middle East and Africa news coverage after serving in Kenya as the FT's East Africa correspondent.

    Prior to the FT he reported for Bloomberg from the Democratic Republic of Congo, after an earlier career advising companies and governments on political and business issues in Africa.

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    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Trafigura
      Trafigura trims senior team in biggest reshuffle since 2015

      Restructure comes as trader posts record earnings but is hit by alleged $590mn nickel fraud

      Trafigura signage
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      BP PLC
      How Bernard Looney’s career at BP unravelled

      Chief executive’s abrupt exit has left oil major facing questions over its culture

      Bernard Looney and a BP logo
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      BP PLC
      BP chair rules himself out as next chief executive

      Helge Lund has sought to reassure investors following Bernard Looney’s abrupt departure

      BP chair Helge Lund
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      CEO exit throws wrench into BP

      US inflation rises in August as petrol prices jump

    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      BP PLC
      BP’s board started fresh probe into Bernard Looney’s conduct last week

      New claims regarding undisclosed relations with colleagues precipitated chief executive’s exit

      Bernard Looney
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      BP PLC
      BP chief Bernard Looney resigns over past relationships with colleagues

      Irish executive has led British oil major since 2020

      Bernard Looney
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      News in-depthRenewable energy
      Governments join race for commercial fusion power

      Goal of abundant, zero-carbon electricity from fusing atoms brings together private and public sector

      The National Ignition Facility’s preamplifier module increases the laser energy as it travels to the Target Chamber in an undated photograph at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory federal research facility in Livermore, California, US
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Oil
      Oil hits $90 for first time in 2023 as Saudi Arabia and Russia extend cuts

      Prolonged reductions likely to raise tensions with White House

      Oil storage tanks in Saudi Arabia
    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      Oil & Gas industry
      Could Namibia be the next oil frontier?

      Shell and Total search for fields off coast of southern African nation that could make it world’s newest petrostate

      A drilling platform in Walvis Bay off Namibia in a sunset
    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
      Energy sector
      Start-up taps carbon markets to boost clean cooking in Africa

      Koko Networks has raised more than $100mn through carbon finance

    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Oil
      Global oil demand hits record and may move higher, says IEA

      Consumption data shows global efforts to cut carbon emissions are yet to have significant impact

      Workers unload an oil barrel from a ship at a jetty in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2015
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Behind the Money podcast17 min listen
      How Dubai is reshaping the global oil trade

      Sanctions on Russian exports has led to a shift in oil trading to a new domain in the Middle East. Will it stay there?

    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      Energy sector
      German fusion start-up joins with US university to build laser facility

      Munich’s Marvel Fusion and Colorado State to build first site dedicated to commercial fusion energy research

      Moritz von der Linden
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
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      Saudi Aramco signals further investments in China

      Group reaffirms huge capital spending programme despite fall in Q2 profits

      Saudi Aramco logo is pictured at an oil facility in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia
    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
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      US scientists repeat fusion power breakthrough

      Federal laboratory experiment produces more energy than during landmark test last year

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    • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
      Oil & Gas industry
      Saudi Arabia says it could deepen oil production cuts

      Fresh curbs risk stand-off with US, which wants lower prices to boost economy and squeeze Russian revenues

      Oil storage tanks in the Keihin industrial area in Kawasaki, Japan
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
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    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      BP PLC
      BP raises dividend despite 70% profit drop

      Second-quarter earnings plunge to $2.6bn on lower refining margins

      BP’s logo at a petrol station in Surrey, England
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      Climate change
      UAE state energy company brings forward net zero target to 2045

      Announcement made as Gulf country prepares to host COP28 climate talks

      Sultan al-Jaber
    • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
      Oil & Gas industry
      Oil majors to face energy transition scrutiny as war profit boost fades

      Focus likely to return to decarbonisation as supply threat brought by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine recedes

      A BP petrol station sign in Essex
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Exxon Mobil Corp
      ExxonMobil profits slide as oil prices return to ‘normal’

      US group becomes latest oil major to report shrinking earnings as prices moderate following jump caused by Ukraine war

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    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Shell PLC
      Shell and Total profits shrink as oil and gas prices fall

      Shares hold steady despite sharp drop in energy groups’ earnings

      A Shell truck parked outside an oil refinery
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      The Big Read
      How Dubai became ‘the new Geneva’ for Russian oil trade

      When Switzerland joined sanctions against Moscow, a chunk of the world’s oil trade relocated to the Middle East. Some predict it will stay there

    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
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      Tracking the gorillas of the Congo Basin

      Swiss authorities question potential breach of Russian sanctions

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      Russian business & finance
      Switzerland questions oil trader over sidestep of Russian sanctions

      Geneva-based Paramount investigated about use of overseas subsidiary

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