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Commodities

  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Food groups develop a taste for cocoa alternatives

    High commodity prices and sustainability concerns prompting investment by likes of Mondelēz into lab-grown versions

    Cocoa pods and beans
  • Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
    Eni SpA
    Eni fires up €100mn supercomputer in race to find oil and gas reservoirs

    Italian energy giant switches on the world’s most powerful machine outside the US

    The HPC6 supercomputer, in the Italian town of Ferrera Erbognone
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Natural gas
    EU burns through gas storage at fastest rate since energy crisis

    Colder weather and lower seaborne imports increase reliance on stored gas

    Pipelines and industrial equipment are seen at the gas storage facility n Bad Lauchstädt, Germany
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    El Salvador
    El Salvador lawmakers overturn mining ban

    President Nayib Bukele had called prohibition ‘absurd’ despite pushback from environmental and social groups

    A woman holds up a sign in Spanish that translates to ‘No to mining, yes to life’, during a protest agains the mining bill San Salvador, El Salvador
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Methane pollution at US’s biggest oilfield plunges after Biden crackdown

    Emissions at Permian Basin of potent greenhouse gas declined 26% in 2023

    A row of pumpjacks
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Venture Global
    LNG developer Venture Global files for US IPO

    Liquefied natural gas exporter looks to tap into enthusiasm over Trump’s pledge to boost energy exports

    A natural gas tanker in the ocean
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    EU energy
    EU imports record quantities of Russian LNG in 2024

    Bloc received 16.5mn tonnes of liquefied natural gas by mid-December despite efforts to reduce supplies from Russia

    An LNG tanker moored in the Mediterranean Sea
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    US trade
    Trump tells EU to buy US oil and gas or face tariffs

    US president-elect warns bloc that member states will face tariffs unless they make big purchases

    Donald Trump speaks at a podium
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Shell tied new Nigeria offshore investments to approval for oil asset sale

    Approval for exit from operation at centre of decades of criticism over environmental impact marked sharp turnaround

    Bonga offshore production facility
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Trump protectionism threatens energy transition, warns BHP chief

    Mike Henry says shifting US policies risk slowing allocation of capital to projects essential to renewables switch

    Mike Henry, chief executive of BHP
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Syria’s largest refinery stops operating as Iran oil flow ceases

    Ninety per cent of country’s crude came from Iran before fall of Bashar al-Assad, says refinery chief

    The Baniyas oil refinery
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Energy Source
    The trends that defined the energy sector in 2024 Premium content

    From stable oil markets to a nuclear energy revival, these were the themes that shaped the industry

    A pumpjack operates in the middle of a cotton field as wind turbines run in the distance
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    The wondrous gift of open trade is given

    Flexible economies and free markets have kept globalisation going this year

    Shelves of olive oil at a Mercadona SA supermarket
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Ineos Group Ltd
    Ineos Energy chief warns ‘punitive’ UK taxes make North Sea uninvestable

    Industry veteran Brian Gilvary says government policies force oil and gas explorers to seek opportunities in other markets

    Brian Gilvary
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    European companies
    EU should force customers to buy less polluting products, companies say

    Major fossil fuel and industrial groups push for mandatory requirements in letter to European climate commissioner

    European Union flags
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Natural gas
    Biden administration casts fresh doubt on new US LNG expansion

    Energy secretary says more gas projects would push up domestic prices and threaten climate goals

    US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks and gestures at a podium
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    News in-depthTrafigura
    Trafigura under fresh scrutiny after scandals hit profits

    Commodities trading house knocked by repeated failures of risk controls that have taken financial and reputational toll

    Richard Holtum, Trafigura logo, US dollars
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Batteries
    US backs graphite factory to loosen China’s EV supply chain grip

    Australia’s Novonix to build North America’s largest facility making synthetic form of vital battery component

    An electric car battery at a Ford factory in Michigan
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Europe agrees insurance crackdown on Russia’s ‘dark fleet’

    Tankers carrying Russian oil must show they have adequate cover when passing through European waters

    A Russian oil tanker
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Oil
    EU imposes sanctions on oil trader Niels Troost over alleged Russian involvement

    Dutch national is first EU citizen targeted in relation to western price cap measures introduced after full-scale Ukraine invasion

    Niels Troost
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    UK energy
    UK to compensate developers if £8bn gas plant project is blocked by court

    Agreement for power station and carbon capture scheme highlights how legal action is key factor for energy groups

    Activist Andrew Boswell with supporters outside the Royal Courts of Justice
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Australia
    Australia lowers tax revenue forecast on weak Chinese economy

    Treasury cuts $5.4bn from budget estimates over next four years, citing ‘significant impact’ of softer commodities demand

    A freight train carries iron ore towards Port Hedland, Australia
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Russia
    Storm-hit Russian petroleum tankers trigger fears of fuel spills in Black Sea

    One vessel’s prow breaks off and another craft runs aground in Kerch Strait off Crimea

    A video showing the prow breaking off from the Volgodonsk 212 carrier in the Kerch Strait
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Gulfsands Petroleum PLC
    Relax Syria sanctions to bring in western oil operators, Gulfsands boss says

    Head of London-based company says boosting production would help the country ‘get back on its feet’

    Oil well pumps are seen in the Rmeilane oil field in Syria’s north-eastern Hasakeh province
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    Shipping
    LNG freight rates plummet as sector grapples with glut of ships

    Overproduction of vessels after 2022 energy crisis and delays to gas projects weigh on market to ship fuel

    Tug boats prepare to pull out an LNG tanker from a  facility in Cameron, Louisiana
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