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    Oil
    Oil surges above $80 as conflict and storm spark supply fears

    Hedge funds reverse short positions as market has surged nearly 20% from year-to-date low in the last month

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  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    EU energy
    Ukraine recognises Slovakia’s ‘acute dependence’ on Russian gas flows

    PM Denys Shmyhal tells counterpart Robert Fico that Kyiv will meet obligations without renewing Gazprom transit deal

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  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
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    Norway’s Equinor takes 10% stake in renewables group Ørsted

    Company becomes second-largest shareholder in world’s biggest offshore wind farm developer behind Danish government

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  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
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    Rio Tinto in talks to buy Arcadium Lithium

    Deal would make miner one of world’s largest producers of key battery material

    A worker wearing a Rio Tinto hard hat and orange safety vest examines trays of cylindrical jadarite rock samples using a green spray bottle at the Rio Tinto Group research center in Loznica, Serbia
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
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    Trade lobby groups warn that proposals for regional pricing risk ‘deindustrialisation’ and higher costs

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  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    TotalEnergies
    TotalEnergies considers foray into copper trading, top executive says

    Comments in closed-door conference show oil groups seek to capitalise on demand for metals needed for energy transition

    An employee monitors copper cable which is rolled up before passing through a rolling mill to become cable at a manufacturer in France
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Oil prices log biggest weekly rise in almost 2 years as Middle East tensions mount

    Brent crude up almost 10% amid speculation of Israeli or Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure

    An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps speedboat sails along the Persian Gulf
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Is the Middle East on the brink of an ‘oil war’?

    Israel is considering attacks on Iranian energy sites, for which Iran might then retaliate, affecting global supplies

    Flames and thick black smoke rise from an oil refinery in Birjand, Iran
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Oil surges after Biden comments on Israeli retaliation

    US officials believe response to Iranian strike will be measured enough to avoid escalation

    US President Joe Biden departs the White House in Washington on October 3
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
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    Anglo American chief says not ‘inevitable’ buyer will emerge after group slims down

    Wanblad plays down prospects of new bid after failed BHP takeover attempt

    AWorker outside a De Beers mining site.
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Libya
    Libya restarts oil production after political crisis

    Resumption following factional power struggle helps allay concerns over potential disruption from Middle East conflict

    Oil storage tanks in Zawiyah, Libya
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Energy Source
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    A worst-case scenario for the market could send prices spiralling into the triple digits

    Smoke clouds erupt during an Israeli airstrike on Khiam in southern Lebanon
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump touts fossil fuel agenda in bid for cash from Texas oil donors

    Tickets for private fundraiser for Republican candidate sell for up to $1mn

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  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    TotalEnergies
    TotalEnergies warns it will curb UK investment over windfall tax

    Patrick Pouyanné says he has been ‘arguing’ with the Labour government over plans to increase the levy

    Patrick Pouyanné speaks at an event
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Shale Oil & Gas
    Top shale boss says US ‘unusually vulnerable’ to Middle East oil shock

    Harold Hamm blames Joe Biden for decision to drain strategic petroleum reserve in recent years

    Harold Hamm speaking during an interview in his office in Oklahoma City
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Oil
    Oil prices climb as Iran missile attack prompts supply fears

    Barrage sends Brent crude up amid concerns of wider war in critical energy region

    Projectiles fly over the Upper Galilee, northern Israel
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Deforestation
    EU moves to delay anti-deforestation rules

    Green groups condemn proposed one-year postponement to give exporters more time to prepare

    A woman with a wheelbarrow full of oil palm fruit at a plantation in North Sumatra, Indonesia
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Private equity
    Bain joins battle for control of world’s biggest zinc smelter

    Big commodities groups watching outcome as founding families vie for Korea Zinc

    Water vapour and smoke rise from the Korea Zinc smelting factory in Ulsan, South Korea
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    LexAbu Dhabi National Oil Co
    Adnoc’s cash has good chemistry with struggling German industry Premium content

    Deal may provide a test case for other Middle Eastern investors scouring the world for opportunities

    Large cylindrical storage tanks at the Covestro chemical park in Dormagen, Germany.
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Energy Source
    Nigeria’s Dangote refinery reignites debate over petrol subsidies Premium content

    The country’s new ‘single train’ facility has started producing the fuel, making it locally available

    Cars queue to buy petrol at a NNPC petrol station
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    LexMining
    Like it or not, miners are still a China proxy

    A jump in shares shows how the sector’s fortunes are tied to the prospects of the world’s second-largest economy

    Steel at a stockyard
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Abu Dhabi National Oil Co
    Abu Dhabi targets largest-ever foreign takeover with €14.7bn offer for Germany’s Covestro

    Adnoc seeks to acquire chemicals groups as it prepares for a world less reliant on oil as a fuel

    A Covestro employee checks a tank for carbon dioxide in Dormagen, Germany
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Trump’s fracking claims hit Harris’s US election hopes

    Many voters in swing state of Pennsylvania do not trust vice-president’s stance on shale gas

    Montage of Donald Trump speaking into a microphone and pointing to the right; Kamala Harris standing at a podium with microphones; and a shale gas well drilling site in Pennsylvania.
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Lithium
    CME expands lithium futures battle with LME as battery demand soars

    US futures exchange launches contracts for raw material used in electric vehicle chargers

    Montage of CME logo and CME logo on the screen of a mobile phone
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto chief urges western governments to speed up clean energy transition

    US’s IRA programme yet to have ‘significant impact’, says Jakob Stausholm as he opens London Metal Exchange week

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