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Commodities

  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The rising cost of a caffeine fix

    Climate, disease and flawed regulation are squeezing coffee and chocolate lovers

    Workers harvest coffee beans at a plantation in Alfenas, Minas Gerais state, Brazil
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    UK business
    UK ‘well placed’ to obtain enough gas this winter, says biggest network operator

    National Gas comments come after Centrica says low temperatures have strained supplies

    A cooker ring lit by gas
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US imposes wide-ranging sanctions on Russian oil sector

    Move by outgoing Biden administration made in co-ordination with UK

    A worker turns a valve wheel in the yard at the Gazprom PJSC Atamanskaya compressor station,
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Mining
    China’s Zijin in takeover talks for lithium miner

    Chinese businesses continue to establish dominant foothold in fast-growing sector for battery supply chain

    A truck transports mined materials on the excavated terrain of the Veliki Krivelj open pit copper mine
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Energy Source
    New year, new mandates: European aviation industry forced to buy greener fuels Premium content

    Fuel suppliers in UK and EU airports now have to supply a portion of sustainable aviation fuel in departing flights

    A plane takes off from London Heathrow Airport
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Markets InsightAmrita Sen
    Trump will struggle to drive down oil prices

    Energy production in the US will rise but more of the output will be gassy

    A pump jack operates in an oil field in the Permian Basin in Texas
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Shell PLC
    Shell flags weaker gas production

    Oil major warns of ‘significantly lower’ trading in gas and chemicals units as hedging contracts expire

    Two cyclists ride along a bike path past oil storage silos at the Shell refinery in Rotterdam
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Energy Source
    Five questions looming over the energy sector in 2025  Premium content

    Countries will grapple with a bearish oil market, rising power demand and crises that challenge their climate pledges

    An oil pumping jack in a field as the sun sets in the background
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Seplat Energy Plc
    Nigeria’s Seplat moves in to fill gap as foreign oil companies retreat

    Buyer of ExxonMobil’s assets in the west African country wants to double production within six months

    Two workers in blue overalls and white helmets are operating machinery at an industrial site.
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Shale Oil & Gas
    Biden bans new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of US coastline

    Action will protect 625mn acres of ocean as outgoing president seeks to bolster environmental legacy

    Oil platforms
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Energy crisis
    Moldova blames Russia for energy crisis in breakaway region

    People of Transnistria forced to chop wood to heat homes after gas transit deal via Ukraine expires

    Smoke comes out of the chimney of an office, near the Moldovagaz building in Chișinău, Moldova
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Sergey Vakulenko
    Trump’s ambitious oil plans will not derail Russia

    It would still be very disruptive to try to embargo Russian oil from the world markets altogether

    Ben Hickey illustration of two giant crude oil extraction pumps turned towards each other, one hitting the other on top.
  • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
    Shipping
    Oil tanker boss says UN maritime body ‘sleeping’ over dark fleet threat

    Lars Barstad of Frontline insists it is ‘only a question of time’ before a significant maritime disaster takes place

    The Ocean AMZ tanker passing through the Bosphorus
  • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
    News in-depthUranium
    Canada aims to become world’s biggest uranium producer as demand soars

    Demand for emissions-free power and energy security mark a turnaround for the resource-rich

    A Cameco miner in a shaft at the uranium producer’s Cigar Lake mine
  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    Donald Trump
    Trump attacks UK’s North Sea policy as ‘very big mistake’

    Post on Truth Social platform is latest anti-Labour salvo from incoming US administration

    Donald Trump speaking at a campaign town hall in Philadelphia in October 14 2024, in front of a screen with the slogan ‘Drill baby drill’
  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    Oil & Gas industry
    US energy markets on edge as ‘polar vortex’ set to deliver deep freeze

    Parts of the country may face the coldest January in more than a decade

    A woman shovels snow in front of her home in Erie, Pennsylvania
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Gold
    Gold set to rally further this year, say Wall Street banks

    Yellow metal expected to continue to benefit from buying by global central banks

    Women browse gold jewellery displayed in a store window at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Susannah Savage
    Will weight-loss drugs lead to upheaval in the sugar market?

    While many traders have brushed off concerns, the potential impact is clear

    A machine shoots raw sugar into a pile inside a warehouse outside the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of South Florida processing facility in Belle Glade, Florida
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Global InsightAndy Bounds
    The EU’s impossible choice on trade and tariffs

    Trump’s threat of higher duties on Chinese goods raises the stakes for a union proud of its free-trading instincts

    A paint factory in China
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    EU energy
    Russian gas stops flowing through Ukraine

    Transit deal expires with no follow-up agreement on flows to central Europe

    Yellow, red and blue pipeline infrastructure
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    KoBold Metals
    Gates and Bezos-backed mining start-up valued at $2.96bn

    KoBold Metals aims to lead race for critical minerals needed for energy transition

    A large drill rig at KoBold Metals' Mingomba site in Zambia
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Copper
    Telecoms groups forecast to reap $10bn windfall from recycled copper

    Industry is decommissioning legacy lines as demand for metal expected to grow

    A worker inspects large coiled bundles of 8mm copper wire in a warehouse
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    LexOil
    The Lex 2024 hits and misses: slick on oil, blown off course on wind

    Right on the price of crude — but who would have thought renewables would have another bad year?

    Jack-up rigs stand near to the Teesside Offshore Wind Farm in the North Sea
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    Scottish economy
    Future of Scottish oil refinery linked to biofuels investment

    Ministers under pressure to secure future of imperilled Grangemouth facility

    The refinery spreads over a large distance. Emissions can be seen rising from cooling towers and stacks
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Ukraine
    Ukraine receives first US gas shipments via Greece

    Kyiv’s purchase comes before expiry of Russian gas transit deal and Trump’s inauguration

    Donald Trump shakes hands with Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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